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Old 08-10-2017, 01:53 AM
rayjay rayjay is offline
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Over the past few weeks I have gotten a bit of an education on Remington lugs and bbls and stocks even.

My old lugs are .183 .184. Later bbls won't hs with these lugs. I then acquired a late 223 bbl with lug that turned out to be .189. This bbl and lug combo hs on my old 40X rec. I have another of these 223 varmint bbls that needs a .187 to hs properly. I may just use some 240 wet or dry and a piece of plate glass and knock off a couple of thou. I acquired a couple of late model lugs off Ebay and they are .188 and .189.

So in my experience a set of lugs from .186 to .189 would probably cover you. PTG sells .187 and .190 as a stock item.

I just bought 2 stripped 700 receivers and I haven't done any measuring although I did screw on one of the 223 varmint bbls and it will probably hs ok with the .189 lug. It was a bit loose but it was just hand tight so it will probably close up a couple of thou when properly tightened.

I already have the depth measurments of my 40X rec so I need to measure these 2 700s and see how they compare. I think I will go do it right now
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