Quote Originally Posted by oneshot57 View Post
The bolt slides fine. It is just stiff when I turn the handle down to lock up the action.
What Froggy is saying is that sometimes the scope mount screw penetrates the area where the bolt head resides. It is common for the bolt head to drag the end of the screw when rotating the bolt to the closed position. The end of the screw will be dragging the outer diameter of the the bolt head.