And right your are pal. I did just that. I put the gun together and the nose cap tightened up nicely. I then worked the stock. I started with some rags with alcohol and rubbed the whole stock down. I then went to work on rubbing down the stock with 0000 steel wool. Cleaned it up and then used Balestol and the grain came out nicely. I will then get some paste wax and hand rub the stock and it should even look better.

As to the butt plate, I will live with it. I figure that if I send the gun back no telling what I will get to replace it.

As I was cleaning up the rifle, I swabbed down the inside of he barrel and it wasfilthy. I think they test fired the gun,but didn't even run a few patches through the barrel. This is really sloppy. After getting the black crud out it took forever getting the brown crud out. What is it with these guys???

I will still send Lyman a letter aboutthis situation and register a complaint. I have the name of the guy thatdid a QC check on the gun before it left the factory. That should help them with fixing this problem.