This action sits crooked in that it is high in the back, low in the front.
I've never seen a B&C that didn't need a little work. The problem with this one is, due to the recoil lug design, you cannot elevate the front of the action to get it to sit level.
This one is sitting tang high, so the barrel is not floated. You can sand the channel, but that didn't offer much float. On a gun with a normal recoil lug, you can simply elevate the front and bed it because the lug is deep enough. On the Tikka, if you elevate the front, it lifts up off the lug they molded into the block.
They should have just used a slot on the block instead. Then you could elevate the action if you needed to. Right now I am sitting on a $250 club.
B&C told me to go pound sand, because I already messed with it. I thought it just needed a little removed from the channel, so I already started. Then I realized it was the aluminum skeleton was actually canted.
