I am truly sorry to hear bout your issues with your forbes. I recently bought a 24b in 30-06. I gotta say that I saw none of the issues you had. Once I figured out that it has an overwhelming affinity for imr 4831 and 165 gr bullets, it's been nothing but magic. Easy 1/2" groups with a couple smaller. I also have had no feeding or extraction issues. I did not pay a tremendous ammount of attention to the bedding around the action, although it seemed fine. I was more interested in the bedding around the barrel, which was spot on. I did talk to the GM over at Titan and he spent a fair ammount of time talkin to me about test loads and their experiences this far with that rifle. Again, I am sorry to hear bout your rifle and truly hope, now that you got it back, that it performs as mine has. Keep us posted please and I hope you don't give up on that rifle.