What does everybody tighten there action screws too. Ruger recommends 95 inch pounds on the angled action screw. With a wheeler fat wrench 50 inch pounds is as high as I can go. If I try any higher all I'll do is strip the head of the screw. If I go above 20 inch pounds on the other 2 action screws I can't get my floor plate too drop open. Any and all information is appreciated.

I just tighten the front screw up as tight as I can with a screw driver lightly snug the middle and rear so as not to put pressure on the action itself, works for me..I have never bought off on pounds per inch..If it blows one skirt up then it can't hurt a thing, but it seems OCD to me..All my guns shoot under an inch without all the hoopla. On Mausers and mod. 70, I tighten the front screw tight as I can with a screw driver, snug up the rear and not very tight on the middle screw..again works for me..If I were a world class bench rest shooter I might look into PSI for accuracy, dunno???

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Originally posted by Johnny reb:
What does everybody tighten there action screws too. Ruger recommends 95 inch pounds on the angled action screw. With a wheeler fat wrench 50 inch pounds is as high as I can go. If I try any higher all I'll do is strip the head of the screw. If I go above 20 inch pounds on the other 2 action screws I can't get my floor plate too drop open. Any and all information is appreciated.

Who at Ruger told you 95 inch-pounds?
I never heard that one.
I would expect that to split a walnut stock with no pillar bedding.
65 inch pounds is the highest torque I have ever heard of on sporting rifle action screws.
My FatWrenches won't go any higher than that anyway. One stops at 60 and one at 65. One is older, one is newer.

I always stop at 60 if I am torquing with the FatWrench on a pillar-bedded action.
I do that on both front and rear action screws ONLY IF THERE ARE PILLARS.

If no pillar bedding, I would not go above 45 to 50 inch-pounds, and learn how that feels with a screwdriver in hand like Ray.

Front and rear action screws the same, and any middle action screw snug enough to not cause any warping or bending between the primary action screws, just short of white-knuckle tight,
make sure everything lines up and the floor plate opens and closes normally.
Back off on the middle screw if anything is not copesthetic.


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The 95 inch pounds on the front action screw comes directly from Ruger site.