Quote Originally Posted by MrFurious View Post
Guys, he's talking about the shoulder being scratched, not the head.

What's happening is the ejector pushes the case out to a greater degree of angle from the bolt face and because the neck diameter is smaller than the width of the raceway it goes into the raceway allowing the shoulder to come into contact with the sharp edge of the raceway in the action. This is where the scratches on the shoulder are coming from.

Simply put, there is no fix for it - it's inherent in the Savage design - and most other 90-degree/2-lug bolt action designs. A slightly lighter ejector spring might lesson the scratching of the cases, but it will likely also lead to ejection issues. That amount of tension on the ejector is necessary to keep the shoulder of the case pinned to the wall of the action, and thus keep the edge of the rim of the case captured under the extractor. If you lesson the spring tension more often than not you'll start having the case drop loose in the action and not eject because it's slipping out from under the extractor before the neck clears into the ejection port.

This same geometry is why Savage has to use a longer extractor with the .223 sized cases. Due to the smaller diameter of the shoulder, these daces actually fits into the lug raceway and thus allows the ejector to push the case out to an even greater degree of angle, and a standard length ejector simply can't compensate for that additional degree of angle and retain the case head.


you can actually feel the drag of the brass being scraped on the inside of the action before it clears the port. actually puts a kink i some brass. all sorts of scratches

I missed it.