FTF on Savage 93R17

[Species8472]

I have a Savage 17 HMR and lately it has started to experience FTF. It seems to be about every third round. Rounds show a strike and when re-chambered usually fire. Gun is about 5 years old and has probably 600-700 rounds through it. Gets cleaned (including the bolt) about every 50 rounds. Never had this before but I am wondering if it could be the ammo as I switched to the new A17 ammo and before this never had an issue. As a first step I am going to buy some of the older regular Hornady ammo and see if this resolves the issue. I would like to make the a17 ammo work as the accuracy has gone from about 1 MOA to 0.5 to 0.75 using this new ammo. Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[colonel3006]

Never tried that ammo when I had my marlin 917V but had alot of issues with Remington ammo. FTF quite a bit and had alot that alot that cracked in the neck and had to pry the brass out with pocket knife. Switched back to the Hornady and no problems. So yes it deffinatly could be the ammo.

 

[Potshot21]

Not sure I've ever noticed consistent FTFs with my 93R17, and if I had one, I am pretty sure that simply rechambering the round and touching it off again produced desired result. I've only ever used Hornady and Winchester ammo.

Given your experience with the A17 ammo, I'm curious to give that a try! A partridge head is terribly small at 70 yards...

 

[chanman]

Do you think they may have gone with a thicker or stronger rim for semi-auto operation in the eponymous Savage rifle? (CCI and Savage have the same owner, IIRC). If that's the case, I wonder if they designed the B17 to work reliably with it as well.

 

[Papaclaude]

If it just started doing this, have you checked if there is oil or grease impeding the firing pin in the cold? That would be my first thing to investigate.