When I took the stock off, the threaded lug closest to the muzzle that the stock screw goes in just slides out of the groove. Is this how it's made? Thanks for the info.
Mine too. Decided it was no problem and am going to leave it like that.
Shot mine for the first time yesterday and under perfect conditions, no wind, etc. it shot the Fed Vmax into an average of 1.18 after three five shot groups. Very consistent and does not seem to be effected by barrel heat at all. Actually, therre doesn't seem to be any barrel heat. :-)
Here's an observation on mine. First off, out of the box, the entire barreled action would slide forward and backward about an 1/8th of an inch. Tightening the rear guard screw solved that. Next thing noticed was that with the front guard screw removed and the rear loosened slightliy the action will rock up and down vertically a bit. It seemed to me that that situation would result in the action being torqued with both screws down tight so I started off shooting with the front loose. It shot vertical strings that closed up as the fron screw was tightened until it was turned down hard and the groups rounded out :?
Wonder if this will shoot even better with something under the fron barrrel lug so that it will tighten down firmly without torqueing the action?
Anybody tried this?
