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I recently purchased a Savage Switchback in 6.5 PRC.
What a piece of junk. When I first got the rifle I ran a borescope down the barrel. I was very dirty. I went ahead and cleaned it and ran the borescope again. There was a lot of copper fowling. Then I cleaned it again and got rid of most of the fowling. Thats when the machine marks showed up in the entire bore.
Next I decided to run a few rounds to check out the action. I had to pound on the bolt to get it to pick up a round from the magazine. After looking at it for a while I noticed that the magazine lips were catching on the extractor grove. I went ahead and bent the lips out enough so that they didn't catch on it anymore.
Now it was picking the case up from the magazine, but it would lock up about 1/4 of an inch before the bolt closed. Happens every time I feed from the magazine. You have to back the bolt off and push it back forward to get it to chamber. As long as you have the magazine in and single feed from the top of it, it works great.
Next I took the stock off. What a flimsy piece of crap. There is very little support for the action.
That is when I started looking for a new stock to replace it. That is when I discovered that Savage had changed the action for the 110 model. The standard 110 replacement stock will not work on the Switchback model. So that is when I decided to go ahead and glass bead the lug on the recever.\
Now I took it to the range with some hornady 147 eld match ammo. It chambered with no issue (Single feed), but after firing the bolt was very stiff opening it. I ran the normal break in. and couldn't get better than 1 3/4" to 2-1/2" groups.
I went ahead and sent a message to Savage on September 3 rd. I checked it today and no one has responded to my complaint.
I would like to know if anyone here has ideas or comments about this subject. Here is a quote from Savage's website. "We don’t just offer the industry’s best firearms—we also do whatever it takes to help our customers."
What a piece of junk. When I first got the rifle I ran a borescope down the barrel. I was very dirty. I went ahead and cleaned it and ran the borescope again. There was a lot of copper fowling. Then I cleaned it again and got rid of most of the fowling. Thats when the machine marks showed up in the entire bore.
Next I decided to run a few rounds to check out the action. I had to pound on the bolt to get it to pick up a round from the magazine. After looking at it for a while I noticed that the magazine lips were catching on the extractor grove. I went ahead and bent the lips out enough so that they didn't catch on it anymore.
Now it was picking the case up from the magazine, but it would lock up about 1/4 of an inch before the bolt closed. Happens every time I feed from the magazine. You have to back the bolt off and push it back forward to get it to chamber. As long as you have the magazine in and single feed from the top of it, it works great.
Next I took the stock off. What a flimsy piece of crap. There is very little support for the action.
That is when I started looking for a new stock to replace it. That is when I discovered that Savage had changed the action for the 110 model. The standard 110 replacement stock will not work on the Switchback model. So that is when I decided to go ahead and glass bead the lug on the recever.\
Now I took it to the range with some hornady 147 eld match ammo. It chambered with no issue (Single feed), but after firing the bolt was very stiff opening it. I ran the normal break in. and couldn't get better than 1 3/4" to 2-1/2" groups.
I went ahead and sent a message to Savage on September 3 rd. I checked it today and no one has responded to my complaint.
I would like to know if anyone here has ideas or comments about this subject. Here is a quote from Savage's website. "We don’t just offer the industry’s best firearms—we also do whatever it takes to help our customers."
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