Rem.700 Action Screw's

[muzzle flash]

How tight should these be? Does one need to be tighter than the other? THANKS.

 

[guntech]

The front and back screws evenly about 65 inch pounds if you are using a wrench, other wise good and tight on a screwdriver in wood stocks and if in a lighter fiberglass stock make sure it is pillar bedded or you may crush it.

 

[Donny Fenn1]

i bow down before guntech, but in a wood stocked remington is it not 45 inch pounds and in the aluminum bedde fiberglass stocks 65 inch pounds?

 

[guntech]

i bow down before guntech, but in a wood stocked remington is it not 45 inch pounds and in the aluminum bedde fiberglass stocks 65 inch pounds?

... oh don't bow down to me.... I could easily be wrong on this...

I have always felt wood stocks can take tighter screws than fiberglass stocks. The glass can crush and suddenly break if it does not have a pillar preventing that.

I rarely torque action screws, I just make them quite snug and on testing that has been in the 65 inch pound range.

I have seen new Sako's from the factory with the action screws so tight I had to hold the rifle in a padded vice and use a hammer driver to break them loose. I could not twist a screwdriver hard enough to do it. Both on synthetic stocks and wood stocks.

 

[RePete]

I use 65 in-lbs too, and I take them down 20 in-lbs at a time.

RePete.