I cleaned the heck out of the Savage Scout last night taking care to clean the chamber well too. I left the barrel and chamber dry but lightly lubed the bolt and receiver area with Ballistol and the bolt slides very easily in the receiver. Today I will try to zero the iron sights using quality .308 ammunition and see how that goes as far as function is concerned. By the way, I have the same problem everyone else does with the iron sights. In casual shooting it is apparent that they shoot high. I have lowered the rear sight all the way and then some. Hopefully, that will be adequate for accuracy if I hold a bit low. In the next several days I am going to mount a Burris 2x7x32mm scout scope but I am waiting for delivery of the Warne low rings right now (I have the scope) but I wanted to do what I could to make the iron sights workable before I switch to the scope.