I recently bought what seems to be described as a 93 WMR (actually listed as a Stevens model 305). This is my first Savage firearm, and may likely be my last. I don’t get any issues with feeding, like I see posted on many forums. My problem is a nearly 50% fail to fire. Using Federal ammo, not that cheap Winchester series-X (notoriously bad ammo, with lots of videos on YouTube about it). I was hoping that it was just due to a long break-in period, but seeing threads about people sending the whole gun back to Savage because of a bad firing pin in the bolt, I’m not confident the problem will go away. It also seems bizarre that any time something is wrong they want you to send them the whole gun, rather than just the part that has the issue (in this case, just the bolt, because of a sticky firing pin).

What is the typical break-in period for one of these guns? Or does it sound like I just got one with a bad/weak firing pin, out of the box?