I was surprised I couldn’t find many posts about this rifle. Bought it from a friend who had never fired it. Mounted a scope and hit the range. Used the CCI .17 ammo that was supposedly designed for this rifle. It would not cycle a new round in after firing. Never could get it to fire more than one round & jammed sometimes when it attempted to cycle a round. Magazine also fell out, was really hard to load. I tried Hornady Vmax .17 grain 17 and it would not cycle either.
I called Savage folks and a very nice lady told me I needed to use ONLY Hornady Vmax 20 grain .17 XTP. She could not explain why I could not use the CCI special A17 ammo. I hunted the internet and found the Hornady 20 grain. Tried firing it and the same results. I called the lady back and she said to have my dealer send it to Savage repairs. They had it a month or so and sent it back to me. Went to the range and it continued to not cycle any ammo I tried. Jammed trying to use it as a single shot and never got it to fire more than one round using CCI A17, Hornady VMax .17 and 20 grain. Called Savage and was scolded for trying anything other than 20 grain .17 XTP. Was told to return it to the factory and I did 2 weeks ago.
I have zero confidence Savage can fix this rifle and I am not happy that I can only use one bullet-the 20 grain XTP. They would not talk to me about options such as giving me a different rifle, etc. “Send it in and we will fix it”.
so, am I the only guy with a junk rifle? What should I do? Jim