Savage B17 FV-SR High Cap Mag!

[Whiteghost184]

This would be my first thread. I have enjoyed searching your forum and made a recent purchase from one of your members. All in all this seems like a great forum with honest people. I'm a Floridan who likes to shoot with family and friends.

Now that my intro is out of the way. I wanted to reach out to the Savage B17 owners and the shoppers. I guess I can do a half*%$ review on this out of box tack driver. But that sentence probably says it all. I'm really impressed with the accuracy of this rifle. For under 300 buck, plus scope, rings, and bipod I got a under 1 MOA rifle @ 50 yards. No tricks, just a shooter right out of the box.
I'm starting to think it's not fair to shoot kyl targets at 50yrd, may have to move them out to 100. So may be I'm crazy but with all this fun plinkinster my factory mag was becoming a drag. 10 rounds just goes by so fast. I called Savage and they explained that both the A17 and the B17 share the same rotary mag. So I decided to order the Butler Creek A17 25 round Magazines. Thinking this would be an awesome upgrade over the stock 10 rounder. Well she didn't fit...
So I took her to the work bench and started take measurement. With a few modification to the magazine she is now sitting pretty and feeding perfectly! So to anyone who has asked or was curious. It can be done! 25 round hi-cap mag for the B17 is available. It should take you 5 mins with a grinding wheel, set of files, and a bit of sand paper to clean her up! PM me or email me if you want pictures!

 

[TrevW]

PM sent. I would love to see the pictures! I recently picked up a B17 FV-SR and a 25 round mag, but it's not obvious to me which parts need to be ground down.

 

[brandon2222]

PM sent.

 

[Robert Kirk]

Could I have pic also thanks for the information

 

[MIke Glenn]

Did you guys ever see a pic??

 

[Chauncey Thompson]

Please send one to me please .Chauncey48@live.com

 

[iron horse]

Hello, new to the site but had this same trouble and found the cause of the BC a17 mag not fitting the b17. If you compare the factory mag to BC mag - all measurements are the same .... EXCEPT - look down on the top of both mags, at the front of the BC mag there is metal that is just above/over the front mag catch. This is the cause .. if you open the bolt and insert the BC mag you will see where this "metal" hits what seems to be a "stop" below the breech. This conflict prevents the front catch from locking up. BC mag two top screws can be removed without fear of the spring flying out, but set the rest of the mag carefully aside. With the metal top removed it is easy to grind on !! I took a small grinder and removed most of this "metal" from over catch tab where what I'm callin' the "stop" conflicted with the mag. Oh! little plastic tip I removed as needed with a file. I did not see any problems imposed by the rear mag latch. Magazine works ... will stay with my B17 ... I can provide some picts if needed.

v/r Iron Horse

 

[Chauncey Thompson]

Yes please please show pictures if you will .Thanks

 

[iron horse]

Picture of the BC mag top metal ( flipped over ) showing material that needs to be removed .. don't go past yellow line .. NOTE: this metal is hard stuff you'll need a grinder... I used a small bench grinder, cooling the piece in water a few times during the process. I smoothed the edges with emery cloth .. put the top metal back on the mag body, then filed most of the plastic tip off at an angle. The mag feeds rounds without any problems and still fits my a17 .. although still keeping this mag dedicated to my b17. good luck! regards, iron horse

 

[iron horse]

Last Pict : ...

Enjoy !!!

 

[Billie]

Hello, new to the site but had this same trouble and found the cause of the BC a17 mag not fitting the b17. If you compare the factory mag to BC mag - all measurements are the same .... EXCEPT - look down on the top of both mags, at the front of the BC mag there is metal that is just above/over the front mag catch. This is the cause .. if you open the bolt and insert the BC mag you will see where this "metal" hits what seems to be a "stop" below the breech. This conflict prevents the front catch from locking up. BC mag two top screws can be removed without fear of the spring flying out, but set the rest of the mag carefully aside. With the metal top removed it is easy to grind on !! I took a small grinder and removed most of this "metal" from over catch tab where what I'm callin' the "stop" conflicted with the mag. Oh! little plastic tip I removed as needed with a file. I did not see any problems imposed by the rear mag latch. Magazine works ... will stay with my B17 ... I can provide some picts if needed.

v/r Iron Horse

Would like pictures.Thanks

 

[JSH]

2 years ago, you might want to contact the party directly

 

[Billie]

This would be my first thread. I have enjoyed searching your forum and made a recent purchase from one of your members. All in all this seems like a great forum with honest people. I'm a Floridan who likes to shoot with family and friends.

Now that my intro is out of the way. I wanted to reach out to the Savage B17 owners and the shoppers. I guess I can do a half*%$ review on this out of box tack driver. But that sentence probably says it all. I'm really impressed with the accuracy of this rifle. For under 300 buck, plus scope, rings, and bipod I got a under 1 MOA rifle @ 50 yards. No tricks, just a shooter right out of the box.
I'm starting to think it's not fair to shoot kyl targets at 50yrd, may have to move them out to 100. So may be I'm crazy but with all this fun plinkinster my factory mag was becoming a drag. 10 rounds just goes by so fast. I called Savage and they explained that both the A17 and the B17 share the same rotary mag. So I decided to order the Butler Creek A17 25 round Magazines. Thinking this would be an awesome upgrade over the stock 10 rounder. Well she didn't fit...
So I took her to the work bench and started take measurement. With a few modification to the magazine she is now sitting pretty and feeding perfectly! So to anyone who has asked or was curious. It can be done! 25 round hi-cap mag for the B17 is available. It should take you 5 mins with a grinding wheel, set of files, and a bit of sand paper to clean her up! PM me or email me if you want pictures!

Could I have pictures. Thanks

 

[iron horse]

Would like pictures.Thanks

I posted the picts in this thread 9 and 10 above .....

 

[moorepower]

Thank's! I have the Precision series and I tried it with .17 Vmax, hp and 20 grain xtp and it's never shot anything over an inch and many in the .5's at 100yds.