AICS...bed the recoil lug?

[Wannashootit]

Recently finished building my son's .260 Savage in this chassis.

Nothing in the literature (which was minimal, anyway) addressed the oversize recoil lug inletting. Good thing, I guess- because I used an oversize (NSS precision) lug- but can't help but wonder in my traditional thinking that bedding the lug to prevent any lateral movement would be a good thing.

I almost feel guilty about second-guessing Accuracy International, but this is my first chassis and I've ALWAYS bedded every lug (and receiver, natch) on every rifle.

Leave it alone?

 

[LRJammer]

When I built my Savage on an AICS, I did not bed at all and it was silly accurate.

 

[6brshooter]

I've done two aics savages, actually 3 different barreled actions. All used nss lugs. They all shot superbly with no bedding . A 700 in an aics needs the rear tang bedded, but that's a different story. Also on savages the general rule is to float the tang. The aics makes contact there but i chickened out on messing with it till i shot them. None of the barreled actions showed stress with tang not floating so i tested on my 6 br action. It shot a 20rd group of bipod and rear bag that measured .422". Needless to say i didn't worry about tang contact after that.

 

[thrusty]

See how it shoots first... Sight it in at 100yrds, give it a hundred rounds on some steel and then reconfirm zero at 100 yrds.
I wouldn't bed it unless it needs it...

 

[Wannashootit]

So far only OCW load testing done (and I want to repeat it to confirm), but once we've got it "semi" dialed in as to an accurate load we'll see. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[djskit]

I have 2 AX chassis for Surgeon 591s. My first one just bolted on, no issues.

My second one had some accuracy issues that may have had to do with the new barrel, but caused me to look closely at how the action mated to the chassis.

I was horrified to see my rear tang move up ever so slightly when I torqued my front action bolt. I bedded the front lug area and the rear tang for good measure. All is well now - shoots great, no wandering.