Stang and missed: The guy has a brand new model 14. He has the same caliber rifle in a different brand which is where the fired brass came from. He also has factory ammo, which feeds and extracts fine. Thus in my simple mind, there is clearly a substantial difference between the fired and FL sized brass and the "factory" brass = NEW ammo. To exhibit a failure to extract, one imagines that the cartridge has to go so far forward that the extractor is unable to grip the groove of the case. Since the ammo did not get fired, it did not expand back against the bolt, in which case it would probably have extracted fine (if it was still in 1 piece).

Perhaps there could be a wierd extractor issue, but Savage has a fairly robust extractor, not like the little spring clip thingy I had in my Remington bolts...