Have had bad luck with out of the box Remington Model 700s, of which i have several. They would shoot great groups to zero. Then six months or a year later the stock had warped and it still shot great groups to a different zero. This calls for floating the barrel.

The barrels on most my bolt action rifles are floated. Have floated the barrels and glass bedded the actions of acouple dozen bolt action rifles.i just get inthe barrel channelwith an inletting tool and scrape away until iti can get a business card between the barrel and stock.The accuracy of every rifle iever floated the barrel on was improved-except one. That one liked some upward pressureon the barrel near the forend tip. It is really easy to do.