RE: Whether to free float or pressure bed
Here's a pretty good comparison I have a Rem. Sendero in .300WM and a Rem.Synthetic.308Win. Both were restocked with Choate Ultimate Sniper Stocks. In those even the Sendero's barrel looks like a BB in a box car! The Sendero was Brownnel's Steel Bedded w/ a Timney trigger installed and sports a Leupold 4.5-14 Tactical scope. The .308 had the original trigger "smoothed" and lightened a little, 41/2lbs is the best it can safely do. The .308 sports a Weaver 2.5-8 pistol scope on a B-Square scout mount. With the generous free floating both will do 1/2" and smaller at 100yds with the Sendero leading at 3/8" or a tiny three leaf clover. The .308 comes close sometimes, the pistol scope is a handicap in the super tight group dept., but thats my brush to open pasture deer'n 'yote rifle.