Savage Accutrigger Siezed up

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I took the 17HMR out to the range today with a buddy who was in town to impress upon him how amazingly accurate the thing is. I have over 500 rounds through it without a glitch, but this chap managed to seize the trigger 3 times in 15 shots. The only way we were able to release it was to cycle the bolt handle straight up and down (did not eject cartridge) When it siezed, it was the middle pre-trigger portion that locked up.

I dont know if it was the way he was cycling the bolt, or what it was, but I have never seen it happen, and I have not been able to reproduce it since. Unfortunately I think he left less than impressed with the Savage ( it WAS accurate, but he could not get over the issue with the trigger)

Any ideas? :confused: I verified that the bolt was fully closed, the safety was off, and that the trigger was indeed seized.
 
I don't think it was seized, it happened to my Mark II BTVS when my friend
tried to shoot it, but just wiggled the accu-trigger side to side and was ok and
that was it ....
 
MJL said:
I took the 17HMR out to the range today with a buddy who was in town to impress upon him how amazingly accurate the thing is. I have over 500 rounds through it without a glitch, but this chap managed to seize the trigger 3 times in 15 shots. The only way we were able to release it was to cycle the bolt handle straight up and down (did not eject cartridge) When it siezed, it was the middle pre-trigger portion that locked up.

I dont know if it was the way he was cycling the bolt, or what it was, but I have never seen it happen, and I have not been able to reproduce it since. Unfortunately I think he left less than impressed with the Savage ( it WAS accurate, but he could not get over the issue with the trigger)

Any ideas? :confused: I verified that the bolt was fully closed, the safety was off, and that the trigger was indeed seized.
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that is the safety part of the accutrigger.
if u try to pull thr trigger back whitout useing the
center part the whole trigger locks up. u pick the bolt handle up and back down resets it duhhhhh.
 
jbunny said:
that is the safety part of the accutrigger.
if u try to pull thr trigger back whitout useing the
center part the whole trigger locks up. u pick the bolt handle up and back down resets it duhhhhh.
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re read the owners manual, sounds like it is working just like it is supposed to.
 
if you really want to you can remove the center trigger and us it as a regular trigger. the center trigger makes it possible to set the trigger low enough that a normal bump would fire the gun however the the center trigger disrupts the sear. If you do remove it you have to set the trigger pull up to a pound or so so that a bump will not fire it.
 
It also locks up if you pull the trigger to the side. He may have been pulling on an angle. I love the accutrigger, I have my pull down to just below a pound and have never had an issue with it.
 
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