Quote Originally Posted by WV1951 View Post
Thanks, Coach
I stumbled on a year old thread from Texas 10 regarding this very issue and the saga he had trying to work with Savage. Frustrating at best. I watched a video from Gre-Tan on how he sleeves/bushes the firing pin channel to tighten it up. If I can figure out to to get my bolt apart, I am going to try and check the slop.
I have looked at a number of pics and videos and I am cautiously optimistic. The flattish primer still cause a little concern. Obviously, opinions are varied, and I do not have a chrono.
If it were me, I'd get a series of pin gages to measure the firing pin hole. www.gageshop.com is my usual source. Graded ZZ is fine for your purpose. I run into this problem quite often with the antique Stevens single shot rifles that I rehabilitate. Bushing the hole is almost always part of the program. Grade ZZ pins are cheap. I also use them to gage revolver cylinder throats. Nothing else is as accurate until you get into $200,000 Zeiss coordinate measuring machines.