Savage A17 Failure to Feed (reliably)

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I bought a used Savage A17 recently and am curious to see if others have had issues with a failure to feed? To be clear the seller did disclose some feeding issues due to magazine not locking in all of the time. FYI the gun came with 4 magazines/clips and its a constant issue with all of them........The seller also was not to enthused about the accuracy but its a semi auto and do not expect out of the box tack driving accuracy with any semi auto in that price range.

I bought one of cabela's 17hmr rimfire scopes, figured it was good enough for the gun. Mounted it, bore sighted the rig and went out for a test fire.......pretty much a gong show. Accuracy horrible, failure to feed huge issue and after 30 rounds the cross hairs in the scope twisted!!!!!! lol had to laugh. I should say I cleaned the gun before I went to the range....but after the scope shifted I thought I must have forgot to tighten scope rings or bases but no they were tight and then I noticed a little movement in the stock and barrelled action, I figured that's not good.......went back home to regroup...

Took scope back to cabelas and upgraded (I think ) to Bushnells 17hmr scope. Took barreled action out of stock cleaned gun, reattached action to stock, tightened everything down put scope on and bore sighted gun. and off to range for second go around.

I fired a series of bullets at 50 yards, some single shots as I had to refeed the barrel but nice group at 50 yards sub moa about 3" high. Brought the cross hairs down to an 1" high at 50 and fired a series of shots again failure to feed constant but nice groups. I then proceeded to 100 yards fired some groups and again pleased with accuracy but failure to feed is a PIA......I then rested the bottom off gun on top of bean bag to have some pressure on clip/magazine and had no failure to feed!!!!!!

Sorry for long story

Question- have other members had any feeding issues with their A17s? If so what have you done to remedy the issue? I went to Savage's website and some have said the ground some material off the magazine/clip and might have to go that route if Savage does nothing to honour my complaint to them.

I'm sure if I duct taped the clip/magazine it would work reliably....!

For the record I only used the CCI ammo recommended by Savage....


Thanks for any advice in advance.....
 
You might want to check out any postings on the gun on Rimfire Central, they usually have all the fixes listed first, if there are any. Oh yeah, it isn't a clip, it is a magazine.
 
ff33 said:
That didn't take long
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If you mean the clip/magazine thing he didn't seem to sure of the correct nomenclature so I thought I would help him out. I should have stated that a clip is something that holds ammunition so that multiple rounds can be loaded quickly into a guns magazine and a magazine is something that holds ammunition in the gun so that it can be fed into the guns chamber. Or something like that:)

BTW I did a quick check on RFC and couldn't find anything about A-17 feeding problems but that doesn't mean there is nothing there.
 
Hate to be "that guy" but my A17' was both accurate and reliable .... But only with the A17 CCI ammo ... Nothing else worked anywhere as reliable. Accuracy was roughly MOA again with the CCI A17 ammo only. The magazines feel horro ly cheap and flimsy but do not cause me any issues ( so far)
Good luck in dealing with Savage I went that route with my BMag end ending up selling it for a loss
 
RDMC said:
Hate to be "that guy" but my A17' was both accurate and reliable .... But only with the A17 CCI ammo ... Nothing else worked anywhere as reliable. Accuracy was roughly MOA again with the CCI A17 ammo only. The magazines feel horro ly cheap and flimsy but do not cause me any issues ( so far)
Good luck in dealing with Savage I went that route with my BMag end ending up selling it for a loss
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My BMag is still in the safe..................bought a Winchester 1885 in the 17WSM caliber...........to punish myself. I'm pleased with the accuracy of the A17 just need it to be reliable......so looking for advice.


I knew I would get flamed or responses using clip or magazine so used both.....to satisfy both sides or not!!!!!
 
kiimosabe said:
My BMag is still in the safe..................bought a Winchester 1885 in the 17WSM caliber...........to punish myself. I'm pleased with the accuracy of the A17 just need it to be reliable......so looking for advice.


I knew I would get flamed or responses using clip or magazine so used both.....to satisfy both sides or not!!!!!
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You would never get flamed for using the correct nomenclature and I hope you didn't take my response as flaming, I was only trying to lead you to the path of righteousness and knowledge.
 
try running the rifle with A17 ammo. If it is still giving you problems take the rifle apart, clean it and run it dry. Make sure there is no lube, especially in the locking rollers. The delayed blowback design is very temperamental when there is an obstruction to the locking rollers. good luck
 
Garaldtao said:
try running the rifle with A17 ammo. If it is still giving you problems take the rifle apart, clean it and run it dry. Make sure there is no lube, especially in the locking rollers. The delayed blowback design is very temperamental when there is an obstruction to the locking rollers. good luck
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I've only used the A17 ammo and I cleaned and lubed it as per the Savage on line video but will clean again and run it dry. Maybe I'll try to polish up some parts while its apart....
 
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