Can someone please help.
I purchased an Varmint action at the end of March and had problem installing my new Criterion barrel as well as a Savage (varmint 308) barrel due to the tight threading of both my barrels.
I called Savage and they had me send the action back to them in the beginning of April and after inspection they found the thread were out of spec by .008" . They then sent me another action this week.
I clean the threads on both action and barrel,copper grease the barrel and action threads and tried to install the barrel in and it went in only .41" but can't go in any farther.
I just talked to customer support and they said that the new action is .006" out but it is within spec. but they had never try installing a barrel into the action.

So have I been struck by lightening twice or Am i doing something wrong?
BTW the barrel nut threads in through on both barrel smoothly.