James Jones
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I'll be strarting to screw some parts together here soon and was wondering if a recoil lug is realy needed on heavy barreled smaller caliber rifles? I'm gonna be building a Remington M-7 action with a heavy varmint barrel 28" long chambered for 6x47. I have some concerns with the small action supporting that big of a barrel in a laminated stock with typical pillers and Devcon bedding. So I was thinking that i would make a V-block that would support the 4" of full shank barrel and front part of the action , the block would be screwed to the front action hole and two other screws in the barrel shank ,their by free floating 24" of barrel and the action from the mag well back.
I ask about the recoil lug because it would be alot easier to make a stronger block without having to inlet it for the recoil lug.
Another option I was considering was just using two realy big pillers , like a 1.250" in from and a .750 in the back then fully bedding the action around them with Devcon steel putty.
Any of you guys ever fool with type of setup or have any ideas about it? am I over worrying about the barrel weight and the action strength??
This is gonna be my first all out target/LR varmint gun and I'd like it to be competitive in some F-class and maybe some informal BR shootes as well as maybe taking a dirt poodel at 1K
I ask about the recoil lug because it would be alot easier to make a stronger block without having to inlet it for the recoil lug.
Another option I was considering was just using two realy big pillers , like a 1.250" in from and a .750 in the back then fully bedding the action around them with Devcon steel putty.
Any of you guys ever fool with type of setup or have any ideas about it? am I over worrying about the barrel weight and the action strength??
This is gonna be my first all out target/LR varmint gun and I'd like it to be competitive in some F-class and maybe some informal BR shootes as well as maybe taking a dirt poodel at 1K