Quote Originally Posted by EFBell
might sound like a dumb question but have you tried increasing / decreasing the trigger setting and rechecking for the problem?
No, I've never had the action out of the stock. - It came from the Savage custom shop with a very light trigger, so I was never tempted to mess with it. It feels like it must be two pounds or less, much lighter than I am used to seeing on new guns.

My theory is that they thought I was going to use it as a light varmint rifle. They recommended a load with 70 grn bullets for it.

Actually it is intended as a family fun gun. Accurate, light recoiling on the bench but still could reasonably be used on a deer, hog or varmint hunt if the opportunity were to arise. We will probably always fire 100 grn loads through it.