Re: Advantage to over sized Recoil Lug?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: azshooter</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DadEO</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So if there is no real advantage or disadvantage. What do you do with the extra space between the side of the lug and the inside of your stock? Leave it or fill it?</div></div>
DadEO,
When prepping to bed your receiver, leave the back of the lug bare and square. Put 2 layers of masking tape on the sides, bottom and front of the lug.
You don't want these areas touching the stock when shooting because they can cause pressure where you don't want any, and contact could cause the barreled action to bounce in the stock. The lug should float on the sides, bottom and front. The back of the lug should have constant and even contact/pressure when firing.
This also helps you to take the barreled action out of the stock after bedding, eliminating mechanical lock. </div></div>
I can contradict every bit of that, except of course the mechanical lock thingy...but a two degree taper fixes that.
Where you need to "float" the lug on the sides, bottom, and front, is to compensate for improperly inducing stress on the action when you bed it...as in crank the stock bolts down on wet bedding compound, too much down pressure with surgical tube, too thick a coat of release agent, unseen large air pockets under the bedding, integrity of the stock is poor, pillars are not mated to the reciever good enough, etc, etc.
The rightous bedding job is done with everything relaxed and stress free as the epoxy cures. If done that way, a tight lug is better, IMHE.