Well, I guess I need some help/ideas.

I have a Savage 16WW in 22-250 and I here is the story and maybe someone can give me some ideas how to fix it permanently short of junking it and starting with something else.

I bought it brand new and it shoots stellar but right away it had a very weak extraction/ejection system. It barely put the empties over the side of the action and soon it essentially just released them and they just laid on the feed ramp and then it double fed the previously fired shell and the new one being bolted in and jammed. This cost me a bunch of doubles on coyote stands and as a tournament hunter, that cant happen.

I called SSS and ordered one of their "enhanced extractor/ejector kits which seemed a bit better(but never super strong) and seemed to fix the issue until shortly thereafter a feeding issue developed. It would extract and eject fine but the new incoming round would pop up and then hang up on top of the new ejector pin(or whatever ya call it) as it had a sharp edge that my gunsmith found. this has also turned it into a very accurate single shot. even bolting it very slowly, it still hung up.

Once my smith figured that out, he installed a new factory extractor/ejector and now the feeding issue is gone but my weak extraction/ejection is back and it cost me 2 different doubles out in ND this weekend at the ND Coyote Classic.

The enhanced extraction/ejection kit fixes that issue but creates another so either way I end up with a single shot and unless I can find a cure, its gonna end up a tomato stake. Does anyone know of another solution/extractor ejector set up...anything that might help.

I am gonna try to call SSS but they can be mighty hard to get a hold of from my experience which is why I tried here first.

funny thing, I had a Abolt that no matter how fast the bolt was worked, would spit empties 5 feet and never jammed once but it would shoot dime sized groups at 200 yards one day and paper plate sized the next. I sold it and bought my first savage and now here I am with a super accurate gun that absolutely will NOT reliably feed, extract or eject.

any ideas at all are most welcome and thanks for your time.

Jamie B.

P.s. I understand that Fred from SSS posts here and if you were to read this and you could tell me the best way/time to contact you by phone to seek your help, I would appreciate it a great deal.

Have a great day everyone