Choate Super Sniper stock barrel nut recoil lug clearance

[adam38654]

I have a 111 LA 300wm in a Choate Super Sniper stock with a ER Shaw 26" varmint barrel and I would like to install a machined recoil lug. The stock looks cut out to allow about .020 more room for the barrel nut. If the stock recoil lug is about .190 I might be able to get away with a .200 or .210 but would prefer a .220 thick recoil lug. Has anyone tried this configuration in there stock?

[Hotolds442]

PTG sells a .190" precision machined lug. You probably won't find one between .191 and .249". Most aftermarket lugs are .250"

[adam38654]

PTG offers a .200 and .2285. The E Aurthor Brown Co. one is .225

I would really prefer the EABCo because it is black oxided and has an index pin but it looks like I will have to inlet the stock a little more.

[Robinhood]

How are you measuring to get those numbers? How does increasing the thickness of the recoil lug alter the clearance you have come up with. I ask because many people have put thick lugs in those stocks. A Dremel will fix any issue you come across.

Sharp Shooter Supply sells one that is .240
PT&G sells them in 0.183, 0.184, 0.185, 0.186, 0.1865, 0.187, 0.1875, 0.188, 0.189, 0.190, 0.191, .200, .2285 .250, .300 and .500 thickness. Bold individually, sets in Italics.
Badger sells one in .312 Remington but will work.

[adam38654]

I didnt realise these cheap callipers some one bought me don't measure thousandths. So there is .22 clearance, not .022

[LoneWolf]

I don't believe there is any actual proof that I've seen of a thicker recoil lug actually increasing the accuracy potential of a rifle. A trued lug with a trued barrel nut and action should create more consistency, but a heavy recoil lug I believe actually does anything more than maybe provide piece of mind? Does anyone have any true data on a heavy recoil lug vs a lighter lug?

[sharpshooter]

I've encountered a few factory lugs that were bent on magnum calibers. I don't know how much it affects accuracy, but I would feel better knowing that a recoil lug won't bend under recoil.....that's the whole point after all.

[LoneWolf]

Thanks Fred. That makes sense for a heavier Magnum. I would guess that the material used makes a difference as well.

[darkker]

We actually get a significant amount of pleasure from "bent" factory recoil lugs, when some city monkey comes out to try and out-shoot the rednecks. Amazing how $2000 worth of parts in a rifle can't make a fool out-shoot a marksmen with a factory rifle.