Hey HH! Thanks for the info. I have some more info.
Upon closer scrunity (?) inspection maybe a better word

, I found this to be true on my rifle.
1. Fully lever the rifle open. Your bolt is back and the carrier block is up.
2. Taking a light and peering down where the bolt and the carrier block will come to together.
3. My bolt is below the carrier block! Probably a sixteenth of an inch, lower. I can see the brass markings on the face of the bolt. In order for me to lever the round forward into the chamber. I have to force the bolt to popup over the lip of the carrier block. , upward onto the carrier block, before the round will move forward. While I close the lever and drive the bolt forward, I can feel and see the bolt grinding along the surface of the carrier block as it moves forward into the it final location.
NOT GOOD!
4. From this I arrive at a couple of conclusions.
5. The carrier block is not correctly milled for this rifle, or maybe for any rifle for that matter. It is not cut or milled deep enough to allow the bolt to smoothly slide forward. When the bolt is popped up and on top of the carrier block, in order to move the round forward......the bolt is actually elevated or raised out of line with the barrel. ( I hope )
OR !!!! Could it be that the lever action forward to open it, somewhere the lever is incorrectly milled and is setting the carrier block to high?
In either case, when the round iand bolt are locked into the chamber , it is out of alignment.
CONCLUSION??? This maybe causing the high primer hits and ignition problems i experience. Due to the bolt being high in relation to the barrell. Or out of alignment.
PATH FORWARD???
1. Take a dremel tool and deepen the carrier block to where the bolt does not have to rampup or popup onto it.
2. Send it back to Charter Arms, explains my findings and requesting correction? This could take a month or more. Heck, will Charter Arms, in light of the problems, be around to fix and return it to me?
3. Your thoughts???
Hopeful in Houston,

Oklahoma Dee