Are you using Hollow Points? My .22 would do that with Hollow Points on the last round of a 5 round mag. It worked fine with solid points. When I got a 10 round mag, the Hollow Points fed just fine. It could just be a design flaw of Savage's Mags that happens when using certain types of bullets. The odds of getting 2 faulty mags are unlikely, but not impossible.

 

These aren't my pics, I borrowed from another member's post...

If you have a pre-e receiver look at the assembled receiver on top, look at the bolt directly behind the mag rail thing or whatever, the bolt in front of the rear action pillar. Tighten that a little bit and see if it fixes it.

If you have an e-receiver it's in the same spot but it's not a screw, It's a pillar that can be tightened. The one on the bottom is the e-receiver in 22lr...that's why the mag well looks like that. Your pillar will be right behind the mag rail thing.

Have your bolt in when you do it just to make sure it stays centered. You may need to back out the rear action pillar a little bit to allow you to tighten that bolt more. When you tighten it watch the metal clips tilt up more, essentially positioned so you don't have to hold the mag up. If you make it too tight you won't be able to load a mag with the bolt closed, too loose and your bullets will jam... After it works and you've tested it, re-tighten the rear action pillar.

This is how I fixed mine after shimming the trigger assembly. The bullets would get caught about 1mm below the breach unless I held the mag up. Tightened up that screw and it feeds every time.

Hope this helps....

 

Good info Buschwick. I found the "shimming" thread last night so want to try to improve my trigger. Will try your suggestions when I finish shimming. Thx!

 

You have the pre-e receiver and pre accutrigger?

When you do the trigger work, take the little spring out of a clicky pencil to use for a return spring. It's almost like it was made for it and about 10x softer. Good luck with the work...if you have a dremel make sure you polish the sear/trigger engagement too. Every little bit helps.

Mine is dangerously light, I'm having a hard time believing that it functions safely, but with 200 or so rounds chambered and fired since, it's still holding strong. Make sure you bang your rifle around, smacking the stock near the trigger, hit the butt on the ground...try to make the striker break free. Also cock it, put on safe, pull the trigger with a good amount of pressure, and then make sure it don't go boom when you click it on "fire". Do everything you can think of to jolt the striker free.

I've shimmed and polished triggers before and this, I'd say, is one of the more finicky ones. Just make sure it's safe to use with live ammo.

Good luck...happy smithing!

 

I just bought a new 93FV in 22 mag and had the exact same problem and symptoms, was told by a member on here (downwinded) to bend the metal tab that the mag slides on a bit forward...took about 3 seconds to fix and worked like a charm.
It raised the front of the mag a bit and now they feed with no problems.

here is the link to my thread http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=390253

 

Chalkriver - I worked on it last night and discovered that bending the tab forward is the way to go and fixed my feeding problem. Pretty obvious what was going on after I took it apart and looked at it a bit.

Buschwick - I believe I have pre-E and pre-accutrigger, although my receiver looks a little different than the 1st photo you posted. Mine doesn't have the two springs at the rear of the trigger assembly like the photo you posted shows. I have a threaded fastener there instead. Otherwise everything looks very similar. I worked on shimming for quite a while - had issues with it firing when releasing the safety after pulling trigger with safety on. I also shortened a spring near the front of the trigger assembly (not sure what it is called), but in retrospect probably would not have had to do this as the setscrew & jam nut could have just been backed out to reduce the spring pressure. Finally got it down to just under 3 lbs and can't get it to bump fire.

 

That's the trigger return spring. It's way too stiff. Use a spring from a clicky pencil. If you take one apart and hold the spring you'll understand why everyone uses those.

Oh, yeah that's an accutrigger in that picture on a pre-e reciever. You have pre E and pre accutrigger for sure.

You can get your trigger alot lighter by replacing that spring and polishing the trigger/sear engagement area.