Rifle Recoil Lugs?

[hoz53]

Maybe it's all in my head, but I like the thicker ones. It just looks like it has to work better. I have zero testing or data to back that up.

i like the .250 aftermarket ones better also and would always use one starting from scratch on a barrel. For these barrels allready threaded and chambered id like to use the existing lugs though. Ive seen some warped and unparallel lugs id never use but these are good so think i will give them a try. thanks

 

[hoz53]

Thicker aftermarket barrel brackets (Lugs!) do serve one valuable function. They help with sending the smiths kids and grand kids to college.
Before I had a DRO I liked Sunny Hill lugs because they were .240" thick and I could cut the tenon length with a 1" indicator on the carriage. Anything thicker requires a 2 incher and added some aggravation to the setup. Still like them because they will drop into 95% of the Rem pattern inlets. I avoid keystone shaped lugs mostly because the stock will need relief for them to fit. Not good cutting away and weakening embedded blocks like HS Precision, etc.

interesting and some good info. thanks for that

 

[hoz53]

My dad was 6'5" and had a tendency to crawl up on the stock a bit. His eyebrow looked like that of an old fighter. For some reason, when shooting from the bench, he went from stopping the rifle with his eyebrow to using the bridge of his nose. I had a real good shooting LV rifle in 308 Winchester. I loaned it to Dad for one match, and after the first shot, the blood literally poured from his nose. My suggestion that perhaps it was better to catch the rifle with his shoulder was not well received.
We were out shooting one day, and I fired an impressive sub 1/2" group with my Marlin 45/70 (another exceptionally good shooting rifle I had). He wanted to try a few shots. I told him we could save some time and ammo if I just whacked him in a head with a stick.
Dad was literally a genius, and a member of Mensa. I often wondered out loud why he was such a slow learner. He wondered out loud why I was such an asshole. I miss him.
Regarding recoil lugs, I have also seen them bent from putting high recoil rifles in lead sleds. This on both Remingtons and Savages. WH

thaats some funny stuff!! as i said i have experienced scope to the eye/nose syndrome and havent ever liked it to good. i have never used or wanted to use a lead sled so never thought about wat they mite do to a lug. do you think there are times when a lug mite flex but not bend?? these two barrels im working with are a 7mm Rem Mag and a 300 Win mag so they will provide some recall. i think i will try these factory lugs and see how they work out. thanks

 

[Will Henry]

The Remington lugs are pretty good material (4140, I think) and may flex and return reasonably well. Savage lugs are comparatively crappy. If they flex, they stay there. WH

 

[hoz53]

The Remington lugs are pretty good material (4140, I think) and may flex and return reasonably well. Savage lugs are comparatively crappy. If they flex, they stay there. WH

lol- in my one savage i had i did put an aftermarket .250 lug in. there was enough adjustment available in the aftermarket barrel i didnt have to machine anything and still set headspace correct. havent used a rem factory lug on anything ive taken the barrel off of, but im about to.— thanks again

 

[NZ_Fclass]

I have a 250 ground lug on my FTR Barnard S - not for strength, but 'cos it's really flat.

 

[butchlambert]

I do a very light surface grind to my factory ones. Never had a
problem.

 

[hoz53]

I have a 250 ground lug on my FTR Barnard S - not for strength, but 'cos it's really flat.

thats wat i always thought. thanks

 

[hoz53]

I do a very light surface grind to my factory ones. Never had a
problem.

thats good to know. if i had a grinder id try that to. i do try and check them on a piece of ground stock and if i thought one wasnt flat i sure wouldnt put it back on.
thanks butch

 

[338 Mollett]

Funny thing is I know several guys including myself that shoot a Barnard action with just a 3/8 socket head for a lug with very good results . Go figure .

 

[DiffEQ]

Jackie, I thought it stopped when the scope hits your eye !

It doesn't. Still have the scar.

 

[Darkside]

You should be fine.
Myself I use the. 250 for Magnums, ultra Mags and Weatherby Magnum.
Best help and assurance is to have the lug properly beded.
Hope this helps.

 

[hoz53]

You should be fine.
Myself I use the. 250 for Magnums, ultra Mags and Weatherby Magnum.
Best help and assurance is to have the lug properly beaded.
Hope this helps.

oh i wondered for a minute but you meen properly beded. thanks

 

[hoz53]

Funny thing is I know several guys including myself that shoot a Barnard action with just a 3/8 socket head for a lug with very good results . Go figure .

seems to me like the friction between bedding and receiver rings does alot to hold the action in place. thanks

 

[338 Mollett]

This action is mounted on a aluminum bedding block with with a recessed steel insert for the lug used by most of the guys I know .

 

[hoz53]

This action is mounted on a aluminum bedding block with with a recessed steel insert for the lug used by most of the guys I know .

i see

 

[338 Mollett]

It blew my mind when I first got it and seeing what was used doubting it would ever hold . But I have been shooting a 7short mag off of it for several years with no issues . I know some that have shot it 5 or 7 years longer than me . Strange ain't it .