stagpanther
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Took my savage 110 LRH in 338 lapua magnum out of the safe where it has sat since the spring and was dismayed when I pulled the trigger and it went "click" but did not fire most of the cartridges I tried. I have probably less than 100 shots through it total since I bought it.
Stripped the bolt--which was clean but recleaned it anyway and measured the pin protrusion on the bolt face; slightly under .05 from what I could tell. Took it back out, got a few cartridges to fire--most didn't. This is the new small hole LA firing pin that savage switched to--for the life of me I cannot figure out why, it seems like a flimsy little thing to be banging around inside a 338 lapua and the design looks to me like it's begging to fail. I have other old savage 110/111 bolts that have thousands of shots trouble-free and the firing pin assemblies look far more robust.
Any ideas on after-market firing pin alternatives/replacements that will work with these new bolts?
Stripped the bolt--which was clean but recleaned it anyway and measured the pin protrusion on the bolt face; slightly under .05 from what I could tell. Took it back out, got a few cartridges to fire--most didn't. This is the new small hole LA firing pin that savage switched to--for the life of me I cannot figure out why, it seems like a flimsy little thing to be banging around inside a 338 lapua and the design looks to me like it's begging to fail. I have other old savage 110/111 bolts that have thousands of shots trouble-free and the firing pin assemblies look far more robust.
Any ideas on after-market firing pin alternatives/replacements that will work with these new bolts?