My nephews is super good, all the others I've seen had serious ejection problems.
I wouldn't overlook it as helpless. My rifle, and many others I've either heard from guys on forums, or saw at my gun club..have been easy fixes. I made a phone call to Savage, looked on forums for 10-15min, and played around with the 2nd C-clip I got and problem was fixed.
I think its also important to realize that there were two reasons I bought my savage mk2:
1.) it had a 16" bull barrel already threaded, and came with a scope rail already on it. (CZ now offers this setup as well)
2.) it was only $250... which is all I was willing to budget at that time.
It gave me the ability to shoot over 1000rnds sooner, getting more practice in for comps and for fun. I bought the gun knowing I was going to replace the crappy stock. I had a cheap scope for it, and that gave me time to eventually upgrade to better scope. The last thing I did was this month, and that was put a Boyds AT-One stock on it. The price of the rifle and the stock together is still less than a new CZ costs. And I'm ok with that.
Theres a million things you can buy, and I have more hobbies than just shooting. And within my shooting hobby, I shoot every discipline and like to mix it up. I like to budget smaller amounts of money to shooting per month so I can feed all my hobbies, and have fun shooting in every discipline. In order to do that, I like to save money where I can.... Its so easy for guys to say.. "buy once cry once, its only $xxx". Except that its not that singular. Theres 100's of things I could buy and/or need. If I can save $20-$100 (or more) across 10-20 different items...then overall i've saved alot more than just that $20, etc.
^^ THAT is the reason I went with a Savage instead of something more expensive. If you have extra cash just lying around and a $600 CZ, plus $xxx for rings and scope and Lapua Center-X... then I would highly recommend getting a CZ lol. I LOVE my CZ 452.
End of the day.... the Savage will compete, and does compete.