Quote Originally Posted by Robinhood View Post
It has been my experience if you have the barrel nut backed away from the lug at least 1/4th of a turn the action will unscrew. You are either turning the action the wrong way or you left the scope mount on and you have the front screw tightened into the threads. If that is the case the threads are damaged and you need to tread lightly.

If you have nearly stripped the teeth off of the wrench your nut is probably crap. At this point you should realize that you should not be working on a gun without supervision of an experienced mechanically inclined individual. Im not trying to hurt your feelings but the next thing you will want to do is stick something in the actions loading/ejection port and twist on the action. At that point the trash can will be all that is left for your twisted piece of junk.

I'm sorry for being harsh but dang man....I hope your kidding. Take some pictures and post them, then describe the problem.
Thanks for the reply.

The issue is the recoil lug has an indexing pin that fits into a keyway in the threads of the barrel AND the receiver.
I must be able to back the nut off enough to allow the pin on the lug to retract from the indexing recess in the receiver.

See pics....this is about as far back as the nut will go, and I cannot rotate the receiver until this pin is pulled far enough back from it's recess...and dont mind the galling on the barrel, it is lead, and I wont be using the barrel any more.