Pin Problems?

[Vassal]

Well to start with why did you change the spring in the rifle? The Savage factory spring is plenty stiff enough to ignite any primer ever made. Placing a heavier spring in the gun is at best a band aid fix for an ignition problem. Tony Boyer say it best in his book, changing the spring out in hope to gaining ignition is like having a door out of alignment on your car, instead of putting it back in alignment you just slam the door harder. This is what you are basically doing with putting in a heaver spring. Trying to gain lock time on a Savage action is a waste of time, as the Savage action has one of the fastest lock time out of all the actions made.

You never mention how much firing pin travel you have and this is the most important thing. Your firing pin protrusion is too much, and you are loosing travel because of it. Firing pin travel needs to be at 35 thousands to 40 thousands max. Do your self a favor and put the factory spring back in, and set the firing pin protrusion to the above.

After that if your still having ignition problems, you need to send the gun off to a Gunsmith that understands timing. The problem could be caused by the shape of the firing pin tip, (Caused by blanking primers, and other things.) you could have a problem with short travel of the firing pin, the bolt de-cocking as it is closing.

Did you make any other modifications to the gun? Such as change out the trigger, ETC. Did you fire the gun prior to changing out the spring? Did you have problems before changing parts?

I didn't replace the spring in order to increase ignition, that wouldn't make any sense unless the factory spring was weakened somehow. As stated, I replaced the spring in order to shorten lock time. Will it make any difference, who knows but it can't possible hurt.
I have about 56 thou protrusion right now I' guess I'll try to shorten it and see if that gets it. I can't quite reckon with how that would do it, but I can sense that it might.

Thanks for the help.

[82boy]

As stated, I replaced the spring in order to shorten lock time. Will it make any difference, who knows but it can't possible hurt.

Think again. Putting in a heaver spring is THE absolute worse things you can possible do to a MODEREN bolt action rifle.

Everything is a trade off, to gain something you must give up something. When you attempt to gain lock time by going to a heaver spring, the first thing you give up is it take more force to cock the rifle. The other thing you gain in going with a heaver spring is a hole new level of harmonics. Everyone I have know or have talked to have lost accuracy going to heavier springs.

Go ahead and try it and see if I aint right.

[Vassal]

Interesting, I have a similiar spring in my short action 6.5BPC and it shoots very well.