All in all there are worse things to deal with. It's a factory rifle whose production is/was governed as much by lawyers as by rifle loonies. Send off for the above mentioned screw and while you're waiting take a few pokes with that new fusil and have a cold beer or two.

Those Lyman Plains Rifles are about as good as it gets short of a custom job. Having to deal with a tiny quirk in the beginning is a small price to pay for many years of reliable service to come.

"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty