3 lug vs 2 lug: GO!

[Calvin45]

I've got a few 3 lug actions and a bunch of 2 lug actions in the safe. We also have a Savage straight pull with ball bearings for lugs. All work; all go bang, are accurate, and cycle well.

How you liking that savage impulse? We have one at the gun shop I work at and I honestly hate the feel of the thing but I think it's mostly a mental Hangup; I just like bolt guns haha, or pumps, or levers, or semis, or break barrels haha….because I grew up on all of those. But I never even encountered a straight pull till well into my 20s and they're just "unnatural" feeling to me

 

[ddman]

It's all 2 lugs for me. Only because that's the only thing I've ever owned besides AR's. Here's a couple 300 wsm on a rem 700 and a 22 creedmoor on a defiance tenacity.

 

[Calvin45]

It's all 2 lugs for me. Only because that's the only thing I've ever owned besides AR's. Here's a couple 300 wsm on a rem 700 and a 22 creedmoor on a defiance tenacity. View attachment 544210

Nice rifles…great poster on the wall!

 

[Lefty7mmstw]

How you liking that savage impulse? We have one at the gun shop I work at and I honestly hate the feel of the thing but I think it's mostly a mental Hangup; I just like bolt guns haha, or pumps, or levers, or semis, or break barrels haha….because I grew up on all of those. But I never even encountered a straight pull till well into my 20s and they're just "unnatural" feeling to me

I don't mind it, but the bolt's still on the right side for my eldest son. He has really taken to the rifle and shoots it well. A huge bonus it eats most of the stuff that I've loaded for my Browning a-bolt 2 300win. The only load it doesn't eat is the one I tried to cook up for it with Retumbo and 180 Hornady pills. The Browning likes that load.
I've been looking for another 1 of the Savage rifles in 300win, but I haven't seen 1 locally and looking online they are SPENDY. I keep threatening to flip to bolt over on him if he's a turd.

 

[Lefty7mmstw]

Most 2 lug bolt guys are to nice to straight pull rifles and they drag and bind because of that. Slap the bolt back and forth like you hate the rifle and impart no vertical motion.

 

[ddman]

Nice rifles…great poster on the wall!

Thanks, I bought that poster and a signed picture before he passed away and took both to the framing store in town paid a ridiculous amount of money to have them framed together under museum glass so the autograph didn't fade. Months later I went in to ask the lady what the heck was taking so long and she said they were done but didn't want to call me because she didn't like the poster and framed them separately. Had it in her store covered in a blanket so nobody could see it and the autograph hanging on her wall. Then wanted to charge me more because she framed them separately.

 

[johngibbs222]

I don't know if it's a 3 or 2 lug,suspect it's a 2 lug according to the definition in the OP as it has 2 rows of 3 small lugs.
It floats my boat.

 

[Greyfox]

I have and use both styles. Most all my competition rifles have 2 lug's. My most used LRH rifle for the last 15 years or so is a 3 lug Cooper that is smooth as silk, is very accurate, and performs flawlessly. I do like the short throw and do not perceive the heavier bolt lift while hunting.

 

[Markus3137]

4 lug Seekins

 

[RayRayMoney]

It's all 2 lugs for me. Only because that's the only thing I've ever owned besides AR's. Here's a couple 300 wsm on a rem 700 and a 22 creedmoor on a defiance tenacity. View attachment 544210

beautiful setups!

 

[hunter0528]

I like the Blazer no lugs to lap

 

[skipglo]

Same here. Happy with the X-bolts, Weatherby MkV (6 lug) and, Sako 85.

This^!!!!!

 

[fta0303]

Also just to be clear, for our purposes here the weatherby mkv is a 3 lug. Technically a "9 lug", functionally a 3 lug.

Metal stretches under high stress, like that induced by rifle chamber pressures. I wonder whether your "3 lug" Mark V doesn't become a "9 lug" under firing conditions.

 

[David_h]

Metal stretches under high stress, like that induced by rifle chamber pressures. I wonder whether your "3 lug" Mark V doesn't become a "9 lug" under firing conditions.

That make me want to ask a question. My first inclination would be to assume that all of the lugs in a Mark V (whether 9-lug or 6-lug) lock up equally when closing the bolt. Maybe each row has different contact patch because of metal stretch. I'm curious now and plan to mark up by 6-lug bolt with blue machinists dye and try to see contact patch variations.