Recent content by oregonreloader

Paulatgis...it's great news that you "...know how to eliminate the flyers." Would you care to share your secret? I'm sure there are many B.MAG owners out here in the sticks that would love to know how to do what you have done.

Mo Shooter, Welcome to the "tales of woes thread". I am, frankly surprised, that after all the early problems Savage B.MAG owners had, they continued to produce a flawed rifle. To me, as you describe, this *** did not seem to be a Savage-quality rifle. And to not address the most basic of...

I haven't heard ANYTHING about the B.MAG since around the middle of last summer. I'm wondering if it has become an orphan gun in that no one wants to adopt it?

I haven't seen or heard ANYTHING about the B.MAG since around the middle of last summer. I'm wondering if it has become an orphan gun and no one wants to adopt it?

I see that my last post on the .17WSM was at the end of May of 2014. In reviewing some of the earlier posts and the posts subsequent to my last one (May 28th) it would appear that 1) the SS bull barrel version of the B.MAG is a good shooter out of the box, 2) shortening the barrel improves the...

17Fireball..PM sent

17Fireball, No splitting, as I recall, but dirty cases and FTE, yes.

The author, Holt Bodinson, reviews the history of the .17-caliber cartridge, leading to development of the .17WSM round. He then provides a physical description of the B.MAG and it's characteristics. He starts with the bolt, finding it stiff and the barrel thin compared to other varmint...

Check out the article entitled, "Fast-Stepping Smallbore" on page 24 of the May 2014 issue of Guns magazine. I think the author's words are going to resonate with a lot of us.

17Fireball, On May 22nd, I received an email from a lady at Winchester with whom I've had previous exchanges. She told me she had forwarded my email to one of their engineers for review, but that he was in the process of moving his office and had yet to get to my email. She offered to cut a...

Rotts, Don't jump on me. I'm only reporting what I've found and making suggestions for a means to identify and localize the problems. I don't KNOW that the problem isn't with the B.MAG, just as I don't KNOW that it isn't with the ammunition. I'm simply pointing out what I learned in my...

Gents, This thread now has 32 pages of posts that describe our woes, issues and minor claims of potential success (that never seem to come to fruition). We continue to be hopeful and look for ways to float the barrel, put vibration dampeners on the barrel, get more rigid bull barrels, and so...

For me, I think the B.MAG issue is resolved. On 5/11 I went to the range with my accuracy-shooter friend. He and I shot at six different targets at 100-yards. I also had my Marlin 17HMR and we tried that, too. Over the course of the shooting session, we shot 28 rounds of the 25gn B.MAG ammo...

Tuck2, Good luck finding such a rifle. I, too, had a Savage rimfire when I was young, and I was quite pleased with it. When I joined the Navy, it disappeared. In my opinion, Savage has done a lot of harm to their brand by offering--no, foisting--the B.MAG on a trusting public. Their...

Last weekend I tried shooting the modified B.MAG. The forearm remained away from the barrel after I'd modified it with a Dremel tool the week before. I shot only the 25gn ammo, as I'd had such poor experience with the 20gn ammo failing to extract. After the last shoot, I delayed cleaning...