pillar bedding a synthetic stock rifle?

[john l]

I can understand why people would want to glass bed or pillar bed a rifle with a non-laminated wood stock. I can understand that wood can move with extreme weather differences, temperature and moisture being the main culprits.
My question deals with synthetic stocks. Has anyone put a rifle that has a synth stock on it thru some accuracy trials, then pillar bedded the rifle, and seen a real difference in accuracy?
Real difference could mean something more than 1/3moa or .30 inch at 100 yds.
For a hunting rifle, I could see the value of pillar bedding if the improvement was in the 1/2 inch moa to 3/4 moa, but less than that, for me, I would think that as long as you have the "Holy Trinity" of a good rifle, then that is enough.
The Holy Trinity is: Great barrel, Great trigger, Great optics.
Thanks for your input,
John L

 

[pete f]

Have I done it, no but i do know a couple of people who shoot 'dogs who have done it with some of the earlier Savage and Remington factory lowend synthetic sticks.

Usually it has to do more with the fact the owners can not get the actions screws to stay tight or get tight because of flex in the blowmolded or similar constructed stock. I simply potted the screw holes on my Rem ADL stocks and filled them with epoxy and then redrilled the holes throung the epoxy.

 

[Jonathan]

I'll assume you're interested in hunting rifles and not target or varmint rifles. The reason I say this is because a 1/3 MOA would be a ridiculously good improvement for a half-day's worth of work on a rifle that already shoots 1 MOA or better.

To answer your original question, yes, it is possible to see accuracy gains from bedding a synthetic stock. Heck, you can even see an improvement going from an aluminum bedding block (VS or AICS) to a skim-bedded aluminum block.

I would say it is definitely worth it.