What do you do to make your action better?

[Robinhood]

Several years ago there were regular post on this. Is it a dead horse? Does anyone work to make their action smoother anymore?

[steve101610]

Lost of dry fire training and action cycling will smooth them out.


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[olddav]

Lift kit in my old flat backs, polish lift ramp. I have always been more concerned with triggers and action bedding, scope base bedding and as of late scope ring bedding. I do look forward to other responses though.

[Shooter0302]

olddav,
do you know if an Accuratrigger will fit / work in an old {1996} action ??

[GrenGuy]

As I said in My introduction, I’ve been lurking here for a while. I’ve read all of he tricks and suggestions people have posted over the years. When the question arises to make the Savage action better, I have to ask, “Better for what purpose”? I’ve worked on the old type Savage triggers and got them to work well down to 2.5#. I’ve massaged the actions and got them much smoother. But My problem is, I’ve shot a BAT action with a Bix & Andy trigger. From here on out nothing can be the same for Me. I have My Savages to the point where I have complete confidence in them, even for something like an expensive guided hunt. But I would not start a build for serious Bench Rest from the Savage platform. Cocking the Savage Rifle upsets the the barreled action too much. F class could be a different story. Those guys use those 2’ wide bipods, which resists the torque.

I think I’ve done everything that has been suggested on the site, plus some things that have been warned not to do, that people on other sites have done. Like clipping 2 1/2 coils off the firing pen spring. Fear not, when I do something like that, I have replacement parts to put back in if it doesn’t work. I’ve done the homemade bolt lift kit, smoothed and polished everything, and as I said, clipped the firing pin spring. Everything I’ve done has helped, and nothing has hurt. Something I’ve done lately is take the firing pin assembly out of the bolt, put the bolt back together, and cycle it, feeling for rough areas and parts catching. Then smooth these areas off. When You do this, You soon realize the Savage heavy bolt lift comes from the firing pin spring. And there’s only so much we can do about that. I just received an inch # torque wrench so I can start to measure the success of My efforts.

I was at a Match last fall (BR) where a shooter tied for first place shooting a Savage platform rifle. Heavily massaged of course. But His shooting style and methods were totally different from almost anyone else there.

I am open to any ideas to improve the Savage action, I don’t think I’ve tried everything. Thanks Guys ��

[jpx2rk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtBNkA5tMvw

This guy did a series on using the FV12 for a build, the link above is for the action work he did. The whole series is pretty good IMO, but I've not ever done a barrel swap, so what do I know. LOL.

[mnbogboy2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtBNkA5tMvw

This guy did a series on using the FV12 for a build, the link above is for the action work he did. The whole series is pretty good IMO, but I've not ever done a barrel swap, so what do I know. LOL.

On the very last part of his video where he shows the blueing on the bolt lug abutment is a view of the upper lug machined corners (right side on right hand actions) that I always smooth out. Certain Ackley calibers and most often Creedmoors seem to wedge/scratch between the abutment corner and the lower bolt raceway. The ejector spring pushes them into that "pinch point". This can be done with a small file & a dremmel to polish it up.
I keep checking with an empty case fed in the bolt by hand from the front. Slowly draw out the case, the ejector will keep it pushed against the problem area. Object for me is to free the interference and provide that the case is kept from erratic moves which often dislodge it from the bolt head during extraction (which are partially responsible for "drops" on short cases like the Creed).

[olddav]

olddav,
do you know if an Accuratrigger will fit / work in an old {1996} action ??

Honestly I can’t say with any certainty but I don’t think so at least not without some milling of the action but I could be wrong. I really don’t care for the accutrigger and have never looked into it. A well tuned three screw trigger is quite nice and if a better trigger is desired then I tend buy an aftermarket trigger.