Accu stock recoil lug no idex tab?

[kwarw1]

I bought one off of EBAY it has no index tab!!! Is this something new?

[pdog06]

Not new for the acculug.

[kwarw1]

Well its new to me. I bought a 110 action from NSS a couple of years ago and an accufit stock and the recoil lug WAS indexed cause I would have remembered. Now I'm in a funk, buy a tool I'll use little, chop up a standard lug. Or I guess I can drill a hole and drive a roll pin in it.
I have every piece for this build including AICS magazine system,accustock,etc. I didn't see this coming so I am caught off guard here.

[kwarw1]

Update, I got a standard recoil lug to work by cutting a notch in the center bedding block. The index tab sits below the action and hit the block,I have full contact across the bedding plane now. It did not "weaken" it, it is a solid aluminum block. It actually is a better fit.
Why Savage didn't do one extra CNC step and redesigned the recoil lug is beyond me.
I hope this might help someone in the future

[Dave Hoback]

I agree. I would modify the Accustock block & use a standard lug everytime over the tiny little Lug they use.

[Mark611]

I had this conversation with James at NSS the other day, I tried to drop my M12 barreled action in factory forum into my ACCUFTIT stock and it would not go in, was just doing this to check receiver bolt spacing for a new MDT Oryx Chassie, the bolt spacing is the same, but the recoil lug would not go into the slot in the bedding block, James told me they were the same lug, but he also told me the recoil lug that came on the barreled action that came out of the ACCUFIT stock that recoil lug has to be used to fit the action back into that stock, so according to James if you re barrel that action you need to use that lug, at the time I did not look at lugs to see why it would not fit, I'm fitting new stocks to both my M12 and 110SA so both barreled actions are going to have new barrel lugs to better fit the MDT stocks, I can look again if anybody wants me to?