That spring looks whack to me.

I would call savage customer service, tell them what happened and that the spring is "Scrunged-up / scrunched-up".

There is a trick to replacing them... get something like a dental pic, push the pic thru the hole (from the outside of the bracket) and then put one end of the spring over the pick (from the inside of the bracket)... then push the spring toward that same hole and it should slide into the hole the pick is in then slip the other end into the hole on the other side.