So I bought a Stevens 200 a couple of years ago because I needed the bolt face for my 300BO rifle. I finally bought a new bolt face and put the rifle back together...I've never fired this rifle and I could not get the bolt to close on 223 rounds. At first, I thought it was because I had Hornady steel match ammo, but I noticed that my brass cased Hornady TAP ammo wouldn't close the bolt as well.

I ordered Forster GO gauge and noticed that my headspace wasn't set properly. I was surprised that the headspace was not set correctly from the factory. Any else experience this from a factory rifle?

I'm looking forward to sighting in the rifle as it's going to be my ground hog rifle. I'm going to eventually replace the factory barrel with a BHW 16" barrel that will be threaded 5/8x24 to use my TBAC suppressor.