Difficulty chambering rounds with new Savage 12FV

[Bisson1990]

Then order yourself a Teslong borescope camera. Cheap and you'll appreciate being able to see inside the barrel and chamber.

Problem solved - my teslong borescope came today and I gave things a look. The action screw was just the tiniest bit proud - I had checked with a flash light earlier and it had looked normal, but the the extra light of the teslong and the ability to look at it from multiple angles proved it was a bit proud. I then looked again at the lugs under a bright light and there was a very tiny amount of scoring about where the action screw would touch. Not enough to raise my attention earlier but now seemed to fit with the other info. I had put the 12FV in a new B&C stock before shooting it and it looks like that switch resulted in the slightest of protrusions of the action screw into the action bolt opening itself. A slight grinding of the end of the action screw (and re-bluing of the bare metal end) put everything back in working order. The "shortish" un-fired Hornady cycled like before, Hornady once fired that was a little tight on extraction was back to normal and the un-fired Nosler did allow the bolt to close even if still a little snug. I FL sized a new piece of Nosler 6.5 brass and it worked just like the Hornady. Problem solved. The Teslong has already paid for itself.

 

[BW64]

BINGO!!! Glad you found it.

BW

 

[spudgun]

I have been shooting my Savage 12 F/V for about 2 years now.

I do reload all my ammo.

A month ago I noticed a issue with ejecting my cases after firing. Some times I needed to stand up and use a lot of force lifting the bolt handle.

Never had this issue before and I do shoot a lot.

Now my gun likes to shoot dirty, I once cleaned all the copper out of the bore and on my next shoot noticed that my groups were all over the place. After 19 rounds my groups started to get tight again. So only a patch down the barrel after shooting.

This bold extraction was concering me.

I tried taking a brush and wrapping some extra fine #000 steel wool around it. Hooked it to a drill.

After 30 seconds of running the steel wool I inserted a resized case and noticed it was ejecting easier.

Another 15 seconds of the steel wool the problem was solved.

Took it to the range and after firing 10 shots I noticed 2 things.

1. Brass ejected easily.
2. The black powder marks on the shoulders were much less than before.

I guess I had some carbon build up on the shoulder and neck of the chamber that my bore scope didn't detect.

May not help you but it did mine.