Re: AICS and Rem. 700 recoil lug (quick question)
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neo223</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tomirwin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We do not recommend making the depth of the recoil slot in the AICS any deeper and if you do you will void any warranty on the AICS. If you are going to cut anything take it off the recoil lug.
Tom Irwin
Accuracy International </div></div>
Thank you very much Tom but I was not planning to touch the AICS slot. My plan is to cut the recoil lug, but what I do not know is how much to cut off the bottom of the lug. Should the lug be resting on the bottom of the recoil slot or just above it? In other words, should there be a space between the bottom of the lug and the bottom of the AICS slot?
thanks. </div></div>
You do not want the lug to make bottom contact during receiver torque into the stock. The lug is there to counter recoil force along the bore axis. The receiver itself should fully mate to the stock AICS V-channel bed, not the recoil lug bottom to possibly conflict with this. The recoil lug mating surface of concern would be on the receiver-side face of the lug to the channel.