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I got a BR99 which I only got to test fire recently. I put almost 100 rounds through it and there were very few problems, just two sticky 10 round mags which meant failure to feed.
There was one failure to extract (it happened with another shooter so I am not fussed about that). Besides it is early days and the gun has to be given a chance to settle.

I found something a bit disappointing: the rear sling stud is skew. No problem, I thought, I will just open the butt stock and adjust it. Well, there is no chance of that, because they have made a bit of a hash of it at the factory: the screw has been inserted at such an angle that it actually protrudes out of the plastic channel. See the images...first the sling stud viewed from the butt end:



Now the screw placement. Note the tool marks also, inside the butt stock:



There is no possibility of adjusting the sling stud with the screw in that position. I've passed the images to Shooting Shed (that's where I bought it from) and they are investigating on their end what options there are.
In the worst case scenario if I have to fix this myself, what do you guys recommend I do? My first thought is to remove the screw and fill that channel with some epoxy. Once it has set, drill a thin pilot hole (a lot straighter than Bora Arms did, mind you) and then redo the screw.

Would that work?

I'd send it back and chalk up a minus one to a factory willing to ship work like that out the door. Can you get it replaced under warranty?

We now have spare factory lowers in stock, in fact we carry the vast majority of factory spares here and a good range of after market items.

Are you actually going to fit a sling on it and if so what are you using the gun for?

Remove screw and remove sling loop! If the sling loop is anything like mine i wouldn't trust the metal to carry the weight of the gun! It also digs you in the ribs if you lift the gun into your armpit to load a magazine.

For the off chance you NEED to fit a sling try something like this;

I received a replacement stock from the good folks at Shooting Shed, and installed it with the help of a Shooting Shed T-handle (very nice tool by the way).
The rear sling on this one is slightly off true but a lot better than what I had. The screw is angled the same way as the old one I had. As a matter of interest I got a CT scan through the stock, looking at the plastic channel in which the sling screw is inserted:



As you can see the hole is off centre: it is angled to the left as you view the stock from behind. I think this is an error in how the factory has set up the jig for drilling the pilot hole in these stocks.
The new stock doesn't have any tool marks inside so I am happy with it overall.

I have started checking BR99's we sell and the screws all seem to be out of line to varying degrees which makes me wonder if it is something as simple as a person using a hand tool without fixture which leads to the screw being canted over.

Even the spares are canted to varying degrees.