Quote Originally Posted by mrto View Post
Whatever you do don't even break the barrel with the action out of the stock as you will more than likely shear off the edges of the cocking button which sits at the end of the cocking lever in the cylinder!

Theoben should have made a bracket for the lever to run in,but didn't I found this out to my cost!
I glued a metal strip into the stock for the cocking lever to run on. It's an improvement, but it still doesn't allow for cocking the gun out of the stock of course.