Thanks Bigwhoop. I have been a ruger guy for a long time and owned a few Savages and a couple tikka's and never had a problem. Only recently I started trying out a few other rifles, namely Winchester and now a rem 700, both of which had this same issue.
I went down to the gunshop during my lunchbreak and checked a couple M700's and on the two I looked at, I could see rifle threads through the front hole in the receiver.

Mine, you cannot see through. It seems like they stopped a little short when drilling and tapping at the factory. There are enough threads though in my opinion so, I will either find a shorter screw or shorten the one I have.

Thanks for the help fellas, as always, much appreciated.

Josh

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.