Wouldn’t the action be black with DLC? I just sent my TL3 back to Zermatt to be DLC coated. That’s one of the reasons I sent it. I wanted the color changed to black.
I stand corrected. I checked my lee decapping die, and found it was opening my flash holes. Glad I read this thread I probably would have never noticed it.
The scope problem I had was about 8-9 years ago. When I read your post it sounded familiar. The scopes were new when I had the issues also. It may not be the problem, but I thought I would mention it.
I had the same problem on two rifles in the past. Both were Nikon buckmaster scopes. One, I sent to hill country rifles. It wasn't till then that they told me it was a bad scope. If you have another scope to try out just to make sure, I would..
I'm running the .97 on my sightron 56mm (65mm OD) OBJ. MTU contour. 2.55mm from bell to barrel. If I had went with the .92, I would only have 1.275mm from B to B. The .87 would set me on my barrel.