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Stop Touching Recoil Lugs - Gew 98

PatickD

PatickD

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My biggest pet peeve is damaged recoil lugs and the wood around that area.

I’ve taken out tons, that needed to be cleaned. Not once have I ever messed up the lug/wood.

I don’t understand why so many old fudds just had to mess with them. For no apparent reason either.

Look at this travesty:

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Good lord. I've seen some buggared up wood around the lug, but nothing that bad.

Honestly I don't even see a reason to remove them for cleaning unless there's something else going on - really bad active rust, stock cracking or lug setback that needs to be repaired, etc.

garage. Same basic story as munged up screw heads, damaged stock disks, 98ks with FSBs scratched to hell and back from putting on a sight hood, etc.
 
PatickD said:
My biggest pet peeve is damaged recoil lugs and the wood around that area.

I’ve taken out tons, that needed to be cleaned. Not once have I ever messed up the lug/wood.

I don’t understand why so many old fudds just had to mess with them. For no apparent reason either.

Look at this travesty:

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I feel your pain & proper outrage! its just a tool, cheap enuf when in stock, but ditto what Cyrano said.

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Fudd thinks you have to remove that to take it apart. No lie. They always start there because it looks like the most interesting bolt to remove for disassembly.
 
It's even worse on snipers. On a long siderail, the idiots always need to bugger up the screws that hold the rail onto the receiver and it's the same scenario on turret snipers.

These are the trigger guard screws that were on a 98%+ condition "banner K". Fortunately the trigger guard didn't get too abused.

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This is also a pet peeve of mine and it's quite hard to believe that there are that many brain dead idiots out there. Screw heads being completely destroyed is another peeve of mine. The worst example I've personally seen of disassembly gone too far was a Type 38 carbine where the front sight base was heated, removed, and then reinstalled backwards. And the LGS wanted $700 for it!
 
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