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Barrel to action torque?
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1787602" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>The barrel, with an 1 1/16-16T.P.I. thread, needs to be torqued to between 55 and 60 ft lbs. ,,, I have always found that to be "tight enough". This should cure your problem, but maybe not. If your "smith" only torqued to 10-15 ft lbs, and you could unscrew it by hand, it wasn't</p><p> tight enough to keep the barrel from loosening from the receiver from use. That begs the question, what else might have been overlooked? Was the face of the action cut square? Is the recoil lug (Rem calls it a barrel bracket) surface ground on both sides? After the barrel is properly torqued, the head space should be checked again. This is just another "hard to know" problem without having rifle in hand. I have used numerous Bartlein barrels and never had an issue with any of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1787602, member: 24284"] The barrel, with an 1 1/16-16T.P.I. thread, needs to be torqued to between 55 and 60 ft lbs. ,,, I have always found that to be "tight enough". This should cure your problem, but maybe not. If your "smith" only torqued to 10-15 ft lbs, and you could unscrew it by hand, it wasn't tight enough to keep the barrel from loosening from the receiver from use. That begs the question, what else might have been overlooked? Was the face of the action cut square? Is the recoil lug (Rem calls it a barrel bracket) surface ground on both sides? After the barrel is properly torqued, the head space should be checked again. This is just another "hard to know" problem without having rifle in hand. I have used numerous Bartlein barrels and never had an issue with any of them. [/QUOTE]
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