When the new V-3 XP actions become available, at some point down the road, you'll be selling as many, or more, of them to "rifle" shooters, as you're selling the traditional V-3's and V-1's today.
Therefore, these new V-3 XP actions are not only for pistols....
And I believe you told me you'll also make a V-1 version of the new XP action......I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, here.
Now Anthony, I'm just dreaming and pondering now.......so don't pay no attention.......OK.
The new XP action will have a greater bedding surface....a positive.
And if a rifle shooter could get a solid bottom recoil lug, not split for the trigger linkage of the pistol, they could use the recoil lug instead of the tang, as the recoil surface........
Although....................
The split lug could also be used, too.........little more hassle......
Now....................................
This is the really dreamy part, so don't pay no attention to this, OK.
The recoil lug is counter bored for the barrel, this is the way you plan to do this, which leaves a .050" thick ring for the barrel shoulder to purchase against, with the lug itself purchasing against the face of the action......
If the barrel tenon length, including the .050" thickness of the recoil lug, remains at the traditional Turbo 1.000"..........I believe 1.007" actual....
Now this is where it gets killer good....
If this action is used for a "rifle", and fit leaving the recoil lug off........
This leaves a tenon length of .950"..........or .957"...actual...
Which means................................
The juncture of the barrel shoulder and action face is .050" closer to the end of the leade of the chamber.......
So the accuracy destroying, over tightening of the barrel, will almost be completely eliminated.
As a matter of fact......
At .950", the barrel shoulder action face juncture will be so close to the end of the leade, that slightly over tightening the barrel might actually improve the fluid transition between the leade and bore...........
I told you I was dreaming.........and not to pay any attention to it....OK.
Anthony, the only thing I regret, now, is that I can't go back about 15 years and have the materials you're furnishing, to work with....
CYA friends, I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, here...
I posted this old drawing of Anthony's new V-3 XP action, which shows the recoil lug attached to the action face with screws...
The last time AD and I talked, he had decided, I believe, to simply counter bore the recoil lug and have it secured by being clamped between the barrel shoulder and action face.....like a regular XP, 40-X etc.
The recoil lug turning, as the barrel is being tightened, is not an issue with custom spec components.......it is with the factory XP-40-X etc, cause the components are warped from heat treat, plus, the Remington factory recoil lugs vary in thickness......some really bad.
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When I built my new MD-PAS triple pistol I made the recoil lug adjustable....
I also had to make up an extension for the front of the action, since I used a 10-X action, so the action would be long enough to use in a factory modified XP stock......
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This extension is secured by being clamped between the barrel shoulder and action face.......like I believe AD is going to do .
I made my recoil lug adjustable by attaching it to the extension with 6 set screws.....
When the weather warms up I'm going to change this.....
I'm going to attach the recoil lug directly to the extension, ain't figured out exactly how yet, since it really doesn't have to be adjustable......
Now............................................
I doodled the above picture some..........dreaming.........I'm always dreaming and pondering.....and doodling....
I doodled a third scope base screw hole, since I haven't actually drilled and tapped the third hole yet....
( I see I didn't get it quite centered between the other two holes)
Then I removed the 10-X, X-III logo.........since these pistols will be true Turbo based.
And then........................................
I doodled something else on this action.......
Can you spot it?
I'll let this post simmer a spell, then I'll comment on this additional doodle work.......and some more of me dreaming, about it.......
