It's a design failure, probably melted during shipment . If that is not the case then their QC has gone to chitt. I'll keep buying Howa's and German guns .
Looks like it got pinched by something which stretched it outward. Wonder what the shipping box looked like? iddave didn't say. For all we know, the damage may have occurred at Weatherby, during shipment or at the local store that received it.
Call it a blessing in disguise and replace with a Limbsaver, Pachmayr or Kick-eez.
