Originally Posted by Salvo
I've noticed the same thing on a new Savage that I recently got out of the custom shop. The bolt face is not flat and true, but looks slightly indented or "dished in" around the firing pin hole.
Out of the first box of shells I fired, I got one pierced primer, which is what you have to look out for with the bolt head in this condition. If you are not getting pierced primers then yours may not be bad enough to worry about.
It's hard to say how the bolt heads get past QC and make it out the door in this condition, but apparently they sometimes do. Yours is not the first story I have heard about this, and it has happened to me as well.
The best fix is to contact the service department at Savage and see what they suggest.
You can try a home repair, but only if you are set up to check and adjust the headspace. Truing up or changing out the bolt head is likely to change the headspace, which is easy to deal with if you are set up to swap barrels but otherwise is best left to a gunsmith.
If in doubt, talk to the Savage customer service folks and let them make it right.