I obsessed over getting one of these for quite a long time before I finally found one. Paid full price. Never been very happy with it. The trigger was atrocious but worked pretty reliably. I did some spring work and got it down a lot in weight but then it would double fire occasionally. Finally got it settled in and decent but the safety trigger won't reset when the trigger is released slowly and you have to push it forward. That part's all me, though. If I could live with the weight and feel of the factory trigger, it would have functioned fairly well. As it is, the trigger is fully functional and feels good but it's just quirky.
Only ammo that won't feed and fire and eject pretty well is the 35 grain stuff. Anything in the normal weight bullets functions okay. I found that the ejector notch on the barrel was mis-aligned with the ejector claw so I made a barrel wrench and rotated the barrel slightly to fix that. I haven't had time to shoot it much to check if that helped with the sporadic ejection problems, especially on the lighter stuff or whether it helped or hurt the accuracy.
In terms of accuracy, it's always been just so-so. Not terrible for a rimfire semi but nothing I'd consider particularly good. Probably 1.5 MOA is about the best with any ammo. I worked on bedding the stock screws and the recoil lug but that didn't seem to help at all and in fact seemed to make it less accurate. I suspect that screw tension is a big factor whether it's bedded or not. Even though it's probably throwing good money after bad, I'm tempted to see how it does with a decent laminate stock - the factory plastic thing is just worthless for a lot of reasons.
I didn't find that the magazine was much trouble on mine, I'd already read all the reviews that noted how finicky it is and so I open the bolt to change mags and really seat the magazine forcefully. As a result, it almost always locks in and feeds fine. It's still a total PIA to load, though.
I did a comparison between the A-22M and the much cheaper Rossi 22mag semi and wrote up a post about it. You might look that up. The bottom line is that for the money, the Rossi is totally solid and is at least as accurate as the Savage, at least as far as I've been able to get it to shoot.
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