Re: Suggestions for a tube style Remington chassis....
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TallShot</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wolvenhaven</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You order directly from them:
http://www.gotxring.com/
When I got mine there was a 3 month wait and they're anywhere from $950-1050 depending on what options you get.
I love my RTS chassis, it's a great platform to get behind, very natural from pretty much any shooting position. The thing I like the best about it is the radial recoil lug, makes the recoil a lot different than a bedded rifle that has a lug that only goes down into the stock.</div></div>
Radial recoil lug vs. standard lug? Tell me more
Just for knowledge sake.
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It's pretty much a giant washer. Because the chassis is a tube, instead of having an inch thick recoil lug that you bed into the stock, it has an oversized washer which gives you 360 degree support around the whole of the action and barrel. It means there's a lot more surface area for the recoil to dissipate through and it's even across the whole thing. I shot my friend's Ed Brown M40 side by side with my .308 in the RTS and you could tell the difference in how they recoiled, it was much more "even" in the RTS.
My gunsmith who has been building precision rifles for the last 60 years had never seen anything like it but he loved the concept and how it worked.
I don't think there is any quantifiable difference in how well rifles with different lugs will shoot, but the feel to me was much easier to work with and allowed me to stay on target better.