So I placed an order for a Mountain tactical receiver length rail with a recoil lug and plan to bed it using Devcon on my Tikka T3X. I've bedded stocks before, so no big deal there. However, with the rail, should I try to also bed the recoil lug? Obviously use liberal amounts of shoe polish for release. Seems like a bit of risk of a lock up with such a small lug and hole. However, I agree with others that unless there was good contact of the lug, then it's not keeping the load off the screws.
The only real reason to bed a rail is so it mates flat to the receiver. On a rifle like a Remington, the front mounting surface might not be level with the rear, which can turn the rail into a banana when you tighten it down, so you bed the gap side. I wouldn't bed a Tikka.
