The cocking indicator looks fine. I took the stock off yesterday so I could put a Decelerator recoil pad on it, and it gave me a chance to examine how everything works on the action, have never really paid any attention to it. Now I see where the resistance is coming from, when I lift the bolt, it drags the cocking lever along the trigger which is connected to the firing pin. That is what is causing the "difficulty in opening the bolt." Kinda cool how things work!