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Originally posted by Bearbuck:
I took my new 308 apart to clean it well since season is over. I wanted to wipe the bottom down good and put a coat of rust preventive on. I started to put it back together and was having a hard time getting the action and barrel to settle back in the stock. Let me tell you first it is the Synthetic All weather stainless steele model. The barrel part went ok but from there back did not want to go in easy. I did not want to force it in. Just didn't make since to me to force it into a bind. Anyway I kept working with it and gently would squeeze it down until it seemed in and I tightened down the screws. Just hand snug. I was wiping the bolt down before replacing it and then when I picked up the rifle something did not feel right. I looked closely and the stock on both sides in the exact area where the front mounting screw(diagonal one) is had developed a couple waves in it. I thought something had it bound bad, so quickly pulled it back out. Can't figure out what it could be. I let it set for awhile and the stock seemed to straighten up some. The still is a slight depression on each side. Well I carefully tried to reasemble it again and pretty much followed suit with earlier. I had to get the rear screw going to pull the action in. I snugged it all down and it doesn't seem to have yet waved the stock again, but still when you rub down the stock you can feel the depression where the waves were. What is up with this? What can you all do to ease my mind here? thanks
Whitey