New Savage 10FCP-K bolt won't open

OK, everyone. Here's a great opportunity to get some good laughs.

I recently purchased a NIB Savage 10FCP-K. This is my first Savage rifle, although I'm a long-time shooter (we're talking decades!) and I own several other bolt-action rifles. The Savage hasn't even been fired yet. I assembled it out of the box, cycled the bolt a number of times, and dry-fired it maybe three times to see how the trigger felt. That was 3-4 weeks ago. Today I got it out of the safe to mount a scope on it and noticed that I can't open the bolt. The safety is off (red dot fully exposed), the firing pin is in the "fired" position, and upon disassembly I can visually see that the trigger assembly is in the "fired" configuation.

I'm thinking this has to be some sort of Savage-newbie initiation rite, and that I'm missing something really basic, but darned if I can figure it out. I even skimmed through the manual! (Does that make me any less a man, now?)

So, lay it on me! What's up?

Mark

if you have mounted your scope base
back your front base screws off,my be too long
drybean

OMG! That was it, Drybean!!

After removing the EGW mount, I now see that the screws are slightly different lengths--I totally missed that when I was putting it on, and the fact that the screw holes actually go all the way through to the bolt!

Thanks for the quick reponse.

now all we need is a range report
drybean

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