Made in Canada eh....

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Hitzy

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Picked up some Savage 93 mags....shaving sharp out of the package, every edge inside and out was like a razor blade. Had to spend quite a bit of time with a needle file taking the edges down. Literally would have cut a whole through my ass if I stuck it in my pocket as is....
Kind of disappointed that this was made here, all it would take is a little tumbling before blueing. I have better Nork mags.....and some worse too :)
 
Sad, call them and ask them to correct this and give you something for your time..... Be pushy, and ask if these mags are made here???
 
Well on a brighter note, the 2 ten round mags I got today were not too bad, the mag guides were not sharp at all, and only one needed the front feed lip smoothed out.
I'll chalk that 5 rounder up as being made on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon.... Lol
 
Bigfoot 870 said:
First rule for every mechanical drawing.............

Notes:
1) Remove all sharp edges.
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^^ THIS ^^
As a quality inspector at a machine shop I can tell you in all honesty that deburring is a lost art. I see guys on a regular basis use a large bastard file on small parts and do nothing more than push burrs over to the other side of the material.

As for tumbling it is no different IMHO. If the large burrs/sharp edges are not mostly removed than tumbling does little more than make the part shiny. Tumbling is really media dependent as well.

I would personally still contact them and ask "WTF?" They can and should do better

YMMV
Shoot straight - chrisco
 
I've been through the Lakefield plant and can confirm that they are at least finished and blued on site. I have noticed a huge nosedive in quality though since Savage/Lakefield was taken over by ATK, seem to be going the route of remington by cheaping out on finishing and quality to improve the bottom line.

It's a real shame since my 2005 vintage Mk II BV is a work of art compared to the same model coming off the line now.
 
I only owned one Savage before, a 12FV in 22-250. I got it when all the hype started about the accuracy and they were cheap at the time....$500. The plastic stock was THE WORST pile of crap I had ever seen, and ended up with a bedded Boyds black laminate varmint stock. This was pre-accutrigger but it was fully adjustable and I was able to set it nicely. The finish on the metal was pretty bad, looked like wire brushed then blued. Shot well though, and had no problems removing critters from long distances. What I could not get use to or look past was the ridiculously long action for a so called short action. The bolt design was also not very confidence inspiring with its many screwed and pinned together parts, double bolt head.....wtf? So off it went to another home, and I would never own another one.
The rimfires always looked really low end so I never even considered one, until this year when my old man picked up an old Lakefield in .22mag for $100 and asked me to sight it in. It was pretty beat up and had some rust, but the bore was fine, trigger guard was cracked of course so I fixed that. Got shooting it and it was pretty darn accurate, and the action was smooth and not as dinky as it looked. So now I've got a 93r17gv on the way to see how well it does. For some reason there has never been a shortage of 17hmr here....no .22mag or .22lr buy lots of 17, so I figured why not give it a go....hopefully it's made on a Wednesday.
 
Just to add my two cents worth... I bought a MKII BTVS in 2011 and apart from a waffer thin piece of pot metal that surrounds the mag (replaced) and a fairly crude metal trigger guard, its been an excellent rifle with high build quality. The laminate thumbhole stock is a great fit for me, and the trigger has been flawless. It eats anything I put into it. I must have got a Wednesday rifle when the QC inspector was walking the Lakefield plant floor.
 
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