Savage 99 Question

[Goat]

I recently bought my first Savage 99. It is a late production 99A with a tang safety.Caliber is 250/3000. It shoots wonderfully well with most of the nine or ten loads tried going into 1-1/2".I have one load that is going well under an inch. The question has to do with an extraction. Sometimes it extracts properly and some times it does not when the extractor slips over the rim. It does seem to work better if the lever is worked briskly but this does not always work either.It always extracts the spent case if the lever is closed and then re-opened. What is going on??? I have looked at the extractor and it appears fine with a sharp "claw." Help me please.
Goat

[Hobie]

I don't know, but I'd like to. Mine is like yours but in .308 Win.

[Pepe Ray]

If you look at the fine print in the RCBS catalog you'll note that the Small base and ultra small base dies are made specifically to address the weak extraction problems exhibited by semi autos and Sav. M99 chambers.
Pepe Ray
P.S. There are exceptions of course.

[mescalero1]

Pepe Ray,
Thanks, and no; I did not read the fine print

[Sixgun]

Does it do it with factory ammo? If not, I agree with Pepe Ray that you need small base resizing dies along with a good chamber cleaning, maybe even polishing it a bit. If that fails, buy a new extractor as the "spring" may be weak.-------------------------Sixgun

[model55]

could it be that it works better with a certain brand of brass-slightly bigger case head?