Thread: Winchester 1892 hammer won’t cock back with lever after disassembly

Couldn’t see a particular sub forum that made sense to post in so will try here, as there wasn’t a “I’m dumb and need help section”
As the title suggests, after partially disassembling my 1892 with the intent to clean the barrel and inspect general condition the gun won’t cock with the lever when the butt stock is on, works fine without the butt stock and worked fine before I opened it, with the butt stock on the bolt doesn’t push the hammer far enough down, I can pull the hammer back and it’ll lock correctly, another symptom is that the screw going through both tangs and the butt stock doesn’t grab the threads unless a lot of downward pressure is applied, this to me indicates that something miss aligned but didn’t find anything obvious.

I did try to remove the main spring on the lower tang, but the screw was in there extremely tight and didn’t budge, after a little mangling I decided to just clean the barrel via the muzzle, this potentially is where I’ve messed something up?

Thinking I’ve missed something stupid but after a few hours of trying to get it to work I figure it’s time for help.