Ya know therm, I forgot to mention something to you....
Last week when you had trouble getting the stock / action screws out, that same week I bought a new Edge so I could put together a 7mm-08 for an extra hunting rifle. I take home this brand new Edge, set up my barrel changing tools & proceed.
I can't get the action screws to back out.
I tried several times & figured worst case, I break 'em. So, last time & I give it a good hard shove & FINALLY.... They loosen up. I notice the forward screw is held in by less than a full turn & it's hard to turn like the threads are binding. The rear screw, same thing.
Moving on, I start to remove the barrel. The amount of pressure I had to put on the barrel nut wrench was a pucker factor of 9.2...... It unscrewed hard the whole way off.
Suddenly I notice something a little unusual. A closed look & I see some foreign material in the threads. An even closer look & it looks like the micro pellets used for steel sand blasting. I don't recall the name of the process but it similar to glass beading. tiny little steel pellets all stuck throughout the threads. Action screws included.
It added an extra 2 hours to a simple barrel change since they were now ground into the barrel / action threads from unscrewing the old barrel.
The first thing I thought about was your situation. The second thing I thought - did Savage close up their QC dept?
After finding that, I looked over the complete action. The quality sucked compared to an Edge I have that's a year old. Is this a sign of things to come. Lousy, second rate quality from a company we've all grown to trust & love?
Sometimes, just sometimes I get so aggravated over things like that I consider changing brands.....
Sometimes.
Stay well.
Frank in FLa
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