Good grief! I have problems loading ammo without slamming them into the magazine with some force to get the cylinder to rotate enough. I widedend the slot where you'd lay the bullet before shoving it in to see if that would help. It did a little, but I may also need to widen the opening in front of that just a bit to see if I can get the rim to push the cylinder around. I decided to take the magazine apart to check out the mechanism and if there was anything I could do internally. Wow, that was a big mistake! Took me forever to figure out how to get it back together, and I only had a few tools (Phillips head, Seagram's VO)! It was tricky, but figured out a way to do it. Savage must have some special tool for this. If anyone has the secret, please let me know! I used a rubber band to hold the spring and cylinder in place and partially inserted the two back plate screws, then cut the rubber band on the outside and reached in with tiny needle nosed pliers and yanked pieces of rubber band out. It worked. If I had any sense I would have just ordered another magazine! LOL

I also ordered an extra Savage mag off Ebay and it's different than the one that came with the B17 FVSS. I think. They kind of look alike but I just noticed that one has a spring loaded retainer, while the other is just a plastic clip as part of the mold. Neither has a logo or other identification. I mean...if you're going to steal Ruger's idea, at least copy the whole danged design.

So that's it. I can go into a bit more detail on how to re-assemble the magazine, but I'm not taking it apart again for pictures.

The hell of it is that I haven't even been to the range yet. Maybe tomorrow. Yes!