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Off center primer strikes
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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 530319" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>If you were to see the primer strikes on my savage 24 combination rifle, you would probably snort your coffee / adult beverage.... The strikes are light and about 1/3 the way across the diameter... But it is pretty reliable. I had lots of misfires until I replaced the firing pin with a new one, not a single misfire since, but certainly not the best design.</p><p></p><p>Now wait until I tell you about the breech locking mechanism on that gun... About the 3rd or 4th trip out to the range with the gun I found that the breech would unlock from the recoil of firing. It scared the crap out of me. So I stopped shooting it until I figured out what was wrong with the thing. Well, finally after a complete disassembly, I discover that the breech locking pin (which has a triangular/wedge shaped point) was just barely engaging the notch on the receiver (hardly more than 0.030"). So I filed and filed and filed (it was pretty tough, definitely heat treated, but only about 30-35Rc). After getting no-where, I had to be more drastic and went to the belt sander. it took several rounds on the belt sander to increase engagement until finally it was back to filing and then stoning.</p><p></p><p>In the end I got it to work nice, but have to wonder if I would have killed myself if I had loaded a 20ga magnum shell in the lower barrel. For a discontinued gun, it appeared not to have been fired much and wonder if the first owner had a similar experience after which it became a safe queen ????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 530319, member: 35183"] If you were to see the primer strikes on my savage 24 combination rifle, you would probably snort your coffee / adult beverage.... The strikes are light and about 1/3 the way across the diameter... But it is pretty reliable. I had lots of misfires until I replaced the firing pin with a new one, not a single misfire since, but certainly not the best design. Now wait until I tell you about the breech locking mechanism on that gun... About the 3rd or 4th trip out to the range with the gun I found that the breech would unlock from the recoil of firing. It scared the crap out of me. So I stopped shooting it until I figured out what was wrong with the thing. Well, finally after a complete disassembly, I discover that the breech locking pin (which has a triangular/wedge shaped point) was just barely engaging the notch on the receiver (hardly more than 0.030"). So I filed and filed and filed (it was pretty tough, definitely heat treated, but only about 30-35Rc). After getting no-where, I had to be more drastic and went to the belt sander. it took several rounds on the belt sander to increase engagement until finally it was back to filing and then stoning. In the end I got it to work nice, but have to wonder if I would have killed myself if I had loaded a 20ga magnum shell in the lower barrel. For a discontinued gun, it appeared not to have been fired much and wonder if the first owner had a similar experience after which it became a safe queen ???? [/QUOTE]
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