To make field barrel swaps a bit easier, I was wondering about the nut torque.
I have read where people around here tighten their barrel nuts anywhere from hand tight to 100 FT/LB.

I have always tightened mine to 30 FT/LB but now I am thinking even that could be over kill.

I have used the smack the barrel nut wrench with a hammer technique before and that works fine,
so I thought about maybe trying without a vise, IE, just hang onto the action and barrel with a death grip and smack it with the wrench
with a hammer one good time. A couple of whacks will loosen it up. Seems like it worked okay.

I have not put a torque wrench on it to see how many FT/LB it is.

Anybody else tighten and loosen barrel nuts like this, IE without a vise or action wrench ??