Why was the action frozen? Anything I should do differently next time? I'm guessing it was because it needs to be cleaned.
The action was frozen because a recently-fired then ejected case has expanded from the heat and pressure of firing, and cooled differentially to a larger size. It needs to be resized, cold, afterwards, to be in spec again, for the most part.
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