How much screw torque! ~ The real answer to gun screw tightness. 

Thank you. I'll be posting a video soon. God bless.

Absolutely. He is from an era that anyone worth their salt wants to get back to. Globalism is destroying western civilization. Ps. I finally bought myself torque wrenches for working on my motorcycle, and I will use one to install a scope, but that's it

I bought one three weeks ago. Darn.

@@edwaggonersr.7446, nothing wrong with it. I like to avoid over or under tightening scopes.

@@mnrodriguez I never used one in the past, but I got to say, it was comforting to know what torque I was applying.

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Same here. Being a mechanic is like being in the mofia ---- you can never truly leave.

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I'm agree. Same problem with my . 308 you got to find the sweet spot on the action screws. Composite stock and free floating barrel

@@sammylacks4937 You're welcome.

I certainly appreciate your comments. Thank you and God bless.

The torque value may matter, but not necessarily. Sometimes manufacturers just give us answers that are made up out of convenience. When one of the long range tournament winners asked about the barrel break in mattering he was told by one company that they just told people that to quit getting asked the question so much.

Truley torque value doesn’t matter but I think it’s pretty well accepted that if you want more repeatable and consistent accuracy the action screws should be torqued every time the action is removed. Now the number you use, 35,45,55 inch pounds is probably irrelevant as long as you pick one and stay with it but, at the end of the day,do whatever works for you and your rifle, to each his own. I feel like we go through all these small minor steps in the reloading process to get better accuracy,torquing action screws just makes sense, to me at least

comlbbeau The reason ring manufacturers cite torque settings is to prevent scope tube damage or snapped screws, because so many clueless folks overtighten them. We now live in a world where so few kids grow up with a father who taught them mechanical things, and you can't learn what a screwdriver feels like in college. No, a fat wrench is absolutely not necessary to "set" a scope screw to a torque value. When the screw is resistant to being turned, simply stop. Beyond that, the scope tube is in danger. I have never in my life had a scope slip in even the most heavy calibers. Snug to stop will do.

Your stock is slightly warped, causing the barrel to push upwards as you increase screw pressure, as I demonstrated in the video. The repair is as follows: Wrap sandpaper around a long straight wooden dowel and sand the barrel channel flat. Your paper will remove the high spots first. Once truly flat and sandpaper contacts the entire length, the barrel will lay in the channel with no uneven pressure and all torque issues will vanish.

@@GunBlue490 My repair was 12 in/lb of torque.. why in the hell would I go through all that other crap? My gun is now accurate and I'm not going to mess with it!

Manufacturers generally have never said anything historically about torque measurements. I've studied under the roofs of three manufacturers; Smith & Wesson, Ruger, and Remington, and professionally worked with Winchester, and Sigarms, and nobody ever suggested torque as a working value. Gun screws are not manifold bolts or lug nuts, and they don't require tightness beyond that which has fully tightened the materials under reasonable pressure. In fact, the only parts that have absolute specified torque are such parts as barrels and such that are only for factory assembly. Even then, they measure by "POSITION", and not by torque. Folks call them and ask this silly question, and then they are forced to put the caller on hold or transfer him to some white collared engineer in the R&D section to satisfy the caller. The real answer is very simple. It's like putting a ketchup cap on; you stop when it stops with reasonable hand pressure with standard tools, and you don't need to measure that fact or approach the breaking limit of the screw or driver bit.

Remote Desktop The whole thing???

Lol. Darn close. Had a 1/4 piece left over. Let me know if you enjoy them and I will send you one whole muff. I enjoy your videos!

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Torque is absolutely not critical with a correctly bedded action. It's only critical when action screws are see-sawing or twisting an action over a poor bed. If your gun has a critical sweet spot that needs a torque setting, it's got a sour bed. Action screws are for retaining actions, not for tuning. Guns are not aircraft. I know a little bit about precision guns.