Why one recoil lug?

[Grimstod]

Ok guys I have another question for you. Is there such thing as a receiver with two recoil
lugs that bed into the stock? Are there any reasons they don't exist, if there aren't any? What do you guys think of the concept?

 

[Lapua40X]

Don't see any advantage to having more than one recoil lug. As long as it remains tightly in place, adding another one would serve no useful purpose.

 

[MarkS]

Both of my cusyom action have two. My Bat B has a lug on the barrel and the back square tang. My Stiller Diamondback has a lug cut into the action and a square tang. I any action with a square tang, that is bedded would have two.

Mark Schronce

 

[Grimstod]

Mark do you think its better to have two lugs? I know companies stress having a large recoil lug. this is what got me to thinking about having two. You would not have to inlet so deeply but would get more area.

 

[butchlambert]

My heavy recoiling rifles have an extra on the barrel. My regular rifles, 9.3X62 and smaller have factory recoil lugs and they are sufficient.

 

[navyrad8r]

I am sure you were thinking bolt guns...but M1As and M1 garands are sometimes double lugged. there is much debate and high browed intellectual discussion about if it does any good (none versus one versus two) it is all fun until something goes wrong and you have to Unstock the action during the match.
Cheers,
Doc

 

[akajun]

m1a's and m1 garands are double lugged, however its really not comparable to a lugg system on a bolt gun. M1a and garand systems dont give much for the action to seat on, and are held in by the triggerguard. Lugging them gives them screws and bedding purchase. Plus they still use downward pressure on the end of the barrel which bolt guns generaly do not.

 

[NateHaler]

Mark do you think its better to have two? I know companies stress having a large one. this is what got me to thinking about having two. You would not have to inlet so deeply but would get more area.

Sure, I have a sophomoric sense of humor, but in any other context, the above sounds perverted.

 

[Grimstod]

Lol ya I guess your right. I remember as a grad student I had to write stuff for the college advertising material. It was really tuff to get it to the point that you could not read any double meaning into it. Students were obsessed with finding innuendos so they could poke fun. There are so many acronyms out there. It's destroying our language. Now I hardly bother to cyber them out.

 

[DCRYDER]

Mark do you think its better to have two lugs? I know companies stress having a large recoil lug. this is what got me to thinking about having two. You would not have to inlet so deeply but would get more area.

Are we talking about stacking two lugs between action and barrel? Or having them in 2 different places?

 

[butchlambert]

DC, I really don't know what they are talking about. I have 2 on my 416 Rigby and larger. One is part of the receiver and the other is on the barrel. Don't see any need for one on a 9.3 or less.

 

[Lapua40X]

I'm not an engineer. So, obviously, the theory that two recoil lugs are better than one escapes me entirely.
With one beefy recoil lug (e.g Rem. 700) snugly fit into a properly bedded stock with appropriate torque on the action screws, one of three things would have to happen for the action/barrel assembly to move rearward under recoil.
1. The recoil lug would have to bend
2. The recoil lug would have to shear
3. The material against which the recoil lug rests would have to compress
What am I missing here?

 

[Alex Wheeler]

I would prefer to have only one, as it may be difficult to maintain 100% contact on both at all times.

 

[Grimstod]

Mark do you think its better to have two lugs? I know companies stress having a large recoil lug. this is what got me to thinking about having two. You would not have to inlet so deeply but would get more area.

Are we talking about stacking two lugs between action and barrel? Or having them in 2 different places?

Two diferent places.