As the title says, I picked up my first savage 99, in .308 something I've wanted for quite a while and it's not extracting spent cases. I have some measurements and photos here.
The case neck OD is expanding from .3365 to .3465 the case is expanding from .4600.to .4650
The extractor looks sharp, it does have some flex to it but I haven't found anything to compare it to.
There seems to be some small markings on the neck where it might be expanding into some pitting as well.
I tried to reinsert the spent case to see if it would go back in and it would not and left a scuff on the case about a 1/4 way down from the shoulder.
My thoughts are to either rebore, especially if there is pitting in the neck area or possibly a new extractor. I've been in touch with JES about the rebore I just thought I should get some opinions here before sending it away.
The ammo.im using is the Australian ADI stuff which is maybe a little hot for factory stuff but I can tell the previous owner had thisnpribalem as it seems the but of the stock was broken from hitting it on the ground, for what I'm assuming was trying to get the cases to come out. It doesn't take much more than a tap from the cleaning rod down the barrel to dislodge cases.
I've also tried cleaning but it seems hard to get in to the chamber area with the brushes I have, I'll have to pick up some more cleaning supplies for this gun it seems.
Any help is appreciated, I know there's a lot of knowledge on here, y'all are great.
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