Lowrider49
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3 years ago my wonderful family bought me a new Savage ML10-II for my birthday. I was pretty excitedbought a Nikon 3-9x and a bunch of "stuff" for it and tried it out with IMR 4227 ('cause I had some). It didn't work. I called Savage and they sent me some new vent liners and told me to use 2400 or IMR 4759. I tried 2400 and it fired once in 2 or 3 times...not acceptable!! I put it away for the time being.
2 years ago I tried to make the gun go boom and it wouldn't on a regular basis...I put it away for another year.
In the mean time I bought a T/C 45/209 barrel for my Encore and have killed two deer with it and never had a missfire with 777.
Last week I thought I'll try the Savage again. I pulled the breach plug, soaked it in brake cleaner, pulled the vent liner and ran a 5/32" bit thru the plug, put in a NEW vent liner, dried out the barrel completely, replaced it in the barrel. I loaded 30 grains of 2400 and a MMP black and a SST250 gr and tried to put about 30 - 40 lbs pressure on the rod to fully seat the sabot/bullet. I put a Win 209 in the bolt and poof.... primer fired as designed and the powder did not!! Tried a CCI 209..same result.5 five other attempts didn't work either. Also tried N110, 4198 and universal clays with just a sabot...it WILL NOT fire the powder.
Short of turning the damn thing into a tomato stake what can I do??? Will 0.033" vent liners make a difference?? I can't find IMR 4759 around here.
2 years ago I tried to make the gun go boom and it wouldn't on a regular basis...I put it away for another year.
In the mean time I bought a T/C 45/209 barrel for my Encore and have killed two deer with it and never had a missfire with 777.
Last week I thought I'll try the Savage again. I pulled the breach plug, soaked it in brake cleaner, pulled the vent liner and ran a 5/32" bit thru the plug, put in a NEW vent liner, dried out the barrel completely, replaced it in the barrel. I loaded 30 grains of 2400 and a MMP black and a SST250 gr and tried to put about 30 - 40 lbs pressure on the rod to fully seat the sabot/bullet. I put a Win 209 in the bolt and poof.... primer fired as designed and the powder did not!! Tried a CCI 209..same result.5 five other attempts didn't work either. Also tried N110, 4198 and universal clays with just a sabot...it WILL NOT fire the powder.
Short of turning the damn thing into a tomato stake what can I do??? Will 0.033" vent liners make a difference?? I can't find IMR 4759 around here.