rollingblock wrote on Jun 9^th, 2024 at 4:07am:


I look at it like knives: With a little knife you can do some things while with a big knife you can do everything. Perhaps you cannot do small knife tasks as nicely as with a big knife but there are many "big knife" tasks a small knife just can't do. 

Setting the barrel back won’t help the visible threads. The top lip on the receiver was milled off to accommodate the fat barrel.  It has a short chamber and the block cams the bullet into the rifling. I am not sure but I assume the Stevens Pope barrel was added to the action somewhere other than at the Stevens factory.  It had a headspace issue when I got it that prevented the round from fully seating. This prevented it from firing on the first strike unless you closed the block on a shim.  Luckily I had another block that was a perfect fit. 

I am planning on a new avatar once I get home from a short trip.

This is why I am not messing with this rifle (except possibly adding a set trigger once my MVA order shows up)

Jack