I could use a little help. I read the post by dwheel too late when he advised against removing the two small screws holding the forestock to the front tenon under the front swivel cap. Apparantly there has been a history of trouble getting these two screws to go back into place.
When attempting to reinsert and tighten these screws, one goes in and seats fine while the other will not screw all the way down flush and sticks out about a sixteenth of an inch. I've carefully checked to make sure nothing was cross threaded and all appears clean.
On the face of it, there seems to be no reason to have a problem with what appears to be a simple task, ie., line up the hole in the steel swivel cap with the hole in the wood forestock and the hole in the free floating steel tenon, insert screw straight on, and tighten down.
Any advice, tips, etc., regarding how to fit both screws back into their proper place correctly?