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Help with recoil lug!
Posted by mntwest on April 30, 2015 at 4:34 pmHello fellow tikka owners,
I have a Tikka M695 7mm rem mag rifle. I'm looking into bedding the action to improve accuracy. Although my rifle does not have a recoil lug.??? Does this mean I need to pillar bed the rifle or what is the best way to improve the accuracy at this point? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Matchman replied 8 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies -
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15 Bullseyes
You definitely need a recoil lug. It should be bed into the stock.
If it's missing, you can get a new one from Brownells.
We haven't started making them for the 695 yet though we have a design completed.
Hope this helps.
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1 Bullseye
Have a look at Terminal Ballistics Research NZ. Nathan Foster on there has lots of good advice on pillar and glass bedding rifles with this type of separate lug. He has YouTube vids that show you how to do it and has written a book containing this detail. Essentially, the lug is lightly epoxied in the action recess then glass bedded in the normal way. When the job dries, the epoxy breaks off and the lug is left bedded in your bedding material in the stock. This ensures correct fit and alignment.
You will need to mask off the bottom (the bit that meets the action), sides and rear of the lug to relieve them. Masking the rear of the lug is the opposite side than when doing a traditional integrated lug. I have done a couple and it's not that hard. If you want an easier, less intimidating job, just front and rear bed the action and the first inch or so of the barrel. I also fitted brass pillars by drilling my plastic stock action screw holes with a 3/8 bit and bedding home made brass pillars with Devcon Liquid Steel. Not sure about a 695, but with a T3 the pillars need to be slightly long in the mag well area to ensure correct fit with the trigger guard unit in the action screw area.
Good luck.
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1 Bullseye
The lug needs to be fully epoxied into the stock. Tape the top of the lug (the receiver side only). Get shim stock or a fealer gauge select the thickness that will wedge the lug in place. Cut a piece that will sit flush with the receiver and wedge it in there to hold the lug fully foward and the lug is seated fully flat into the receiver . now bed in the epoxy.When you remove action from stock you can remove the shim and tape. You now only have contact on the lug front face.
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