Here we go again. All the sage advice and no one ever said its accurate or not. So back to the main thought-- you find a flaw in your bolt gun. Something that may well only be superficial. So you send it in without shooting it? Why did you buy it in the first place with the flaw already there.

Then we have the folks that say theirs has no play. But how do you define play? .0001 play? Or .001 play? Or in between?

Before I sent anything anywhere I'd call TC and ask. All the armchair gunsmiths could be wrong. Sometimes what you see when an action is open isn't what happens when its closed. Borden Bumps are a prime example.