Remington 700 - Bedding?

[160andup]

I have a 700 BDL in .270 that has never shot overly well. Not approaching MOA. It's not free floating, Remington intentionally has a significant amount of contact on the front end of the stock. Anyone bed these to help improve accuracy? Could there be something else causing this? Figured I would try bedding it to see if that helped... Open to any opinions from folks that know more than me...

 

[LaHunter]

You can use sandpaper and a wooden dowel to remove that contact area from the barrel channel of your stock easily to 'free float' your barrel. After doing that you can test to see if the groups improve. If you have the factory plastic / 'tupperware' stocks, I would not waste my time or money bedding that stock. I prefer HS Precision stocks, but there are many options for good aftermarket stocks that can be bedded. If you have the original wood stock, I would just replace it with an aftermarket stock rather than modifying it, but that's just my opinion.