The Sourdough Survivor in 350 Remington Magnum

[Float Pilot]

There are plastic pillar type things molded into the stock itself that get in the way. The recoil pad screws down onto them.
The big hollow areas in the forearm would have made a cool place to have something like a speed feed system.

 

[Float Pilot]

Took her back out to the range today. It was raining like crazy.
I used Marine Tex boat hull repair instead of a real rifle bedding compound, because it is a 450 mile round trip drive to find the real thing. The Marine Tex does not seem to hold up as well. So I am concerned about it not taking the recoil.

Fired a few rounds of the Kodiak bonded and it was stringing vertically straight up and down ..

So I re-tightened the heck out of the action screws and tried a few more of my scarce 276 grain Barnes originals.

Plus I back off the powder charge by half a grain and tried some CCI-250s. That seems to have worked and it only slowed down by a few feet per second.