Anyone with a 12FV 223 having ejection problems?

[teddy12b]

I took my 12FV to the range today and my primary goal was to shoot up all the factory ammo I had bought before I dialed in my handloads.  I fired winchester, remington, hornady, and black hills blue box.  The winchester and remington brass will not eject out of my rifle.  It will extract from the chamber just fine but the empty case just falls loosly onto the magazine.  Basically this makes my 6shot bolt action a single shot bolt action.  It was frustrating. 

I'm going to start reloading either hornady or the black hills (Lake City) brass in the future.  Currently I have 250 rounds handloaded in winchester brass that I need to use up. 

Anyone else having these issues? 

[wild willy]

What does your extractor look like if its the copper colored one or the one thats rough looking like a casting call Savage get them to send you the new one fixed my .204 right up

[teddy12b]

I called Savage and the lady fixed me up right over the phone.  She wanted to know if it was the extractor or the ejector and after I told her it was the ejector she mailed it to me free of charge.  It'd be nice if all products came with customer service like that.

[teddy12b]

I got the parts free of charge about a week after they sent them to me for free.  While replacing those parts I thought I'd take apart the extractor to give it a thorough cleaning and it wasn't too long before I heard the sound of the spring and bearing bouncing off the walls in the garage.  So I called Savage today and told the lady the parts I needed and that it was my fault this time.  $15 later and couple laughs with the lady on the phone and the parts are on their way.  Savage customer service is top notch.  Those people were great when it was their fault and when it was mine.

[teddy12b]

Ok, not just to keep talking to myself but for anyone elses information.  I've seen that a lot of people are reading this so I thought I would mention that I got my new parts in tonight.  I installed them without any problems and took some fired pieces of winchester brass that previously wouldn't eject and now they eject just fine.  Just so everyone knows, I'm a big fan of the Savage custom service.