Forend won't latch?

[B. Dudley]

Allow me to ask some pretty basic questions in the hope of solving your issue...

Since you said that all you did was remove the Forend and the ejector hammers are not tripped.

Is this the first time you have removed the forend since owning this gun?
Is the forend seating on the barrels and just the latch is not snapping?

[todd phillips]

Yes. the forend seats down on the barrels, but the latch was not closing until I followed the above advise to give it a squeeze between the latch and action.

This was the second time I removed the forend, I recall no difficulty reassembling it the first time- but that was about year ago.