I know what you are saying about sanding stock butt and around the trigger area being too tight. I have been taking it slow. I have probably assembled gun and disasembled gun while working on sizing stock at least 20 times already.I am getting to where I could assemble and disassemble it in the dark! My bigest mistake was listening or not listening to the directions. When I assembled the lock in stock the first thing I noticed was that one of the screws was at a very bad angle. If I had one peice of advice at that point it would be don't panic. If possible go on and try to loosely finish assembly. That one instruction that said, "if the holes don't line up ream out with a drill", stuck in my craw. Nobody should put such an instructrion in directions! Had I know at that time what I know now I would have approched this situation much differently. I could not make myself ream that hole. So I decided to move the inlet in the stock for the lock. After all I figured the small amount I had to move it would not show if I did it right and thought I could epoxy a peice off of the stock in that area, sand out and it would never show. This is why I say go on and try to assemble if possible. When I tried to install the barrel tang and barrel I discovered I had bigger problem, That screw that went into the lock would not allow the tang to go in correctly.Now I had no choice but to move that screw. It was so badly off I had to move lock plate washer that is inlet in the other side. So know I have a big wallered out hole in the other side because it had to be moved close to 1/8. Having done all this when I slid barrel into tang where it engages correctly. A new problem then arises, the barrel bolster does not seat into the lock correctly. You guessed it, if I had not moved postion of lock it probably would have been right. The problem was that one screw that went under barrel and tang where they lock together, and threads into the lock, all along. Had I reamed that hole to begin with I would now only have a stock with one ugly side. As it is now, I have the reamed hole on one side and a gap around the whole back end of the lock on the other side. Their is the whole confession! :redface: Maybe at least this story will keep someone from making the same mistake!! :cursing: Did I mention that I am somewhat of a perfectionist. So here I sit with a stock that I just can't bring myself to put together,with the rest of the gun. As of this time I still don't know what I am going to do the whole thing has made me heartsick and haven't touched the gun in three weeks. Thinking about starting anoter stock. Just went and looked at sights you were talking about, hadn't even took them out of small bag, thinking they were like one of the last step in assembly. They are plastic. What the :cursing: is up with that!
