I would say send it to savage. No matter how long you had it that action should have never left the factory. I had a problem with a mossberg 410 shotgun that the front bead was not centered. It never matter to me because I dont use the bead to shoot, I mount, swing, have my 2 eyes open and magic used to happen... Before I moved to NC I started selling some of my guns. The person interested on the gun wanted to nickel dime me unless I had that fixed. I called mossberg and they did not even care how old the gun was they would fix it. I would expect no less from Savage.