Thanks for your quick response. After examining the action more closely, I realized that it had cammed over and stopped on the downside of the cam actuators. I cleaned and reassembled it and with a quick pop in the closing direction it came right back over and closed the action. It has always been a...

I have a Model 88 Winchester that was my Dads, Ser No. is 88181. Upon removing the barreled action from the stock,I pushed the action forward and it will not close now. It is as though there is a solid stop keeping the bolt from closing. After I did this, I remembered it happening once before back i...