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.
For sure, never had a bad one and built many of the kits. Never had a problem of getting a few ounces pull. But Lyman rifles are farmed out and it could change. I believe the best were made in Italy. Spain at one time had little gremlins with chisels cut barrels. Many foreign flint locks had old tin cans made into frizzens.
But a wrong screw could have been installed, it happens with boxes of screws.
