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Even if you are lucky enough to find a stock that your action will just drop into and fit perfectly, you may still want to bed the action. Meaning glass bedding, or some other form like pillar bed. The torqueing of the screws refers to how much torque you apply to the screws that hold the action in the stock. Bedding comes into play here as well. Bedding material, whether it be glass gel, or aluminum pillars or bedding blocks create a hard material between the action and the stock. A wooden stock can crush where the action meets it if you crank down the screws too tight, and it's not bedded to keep that from happening. This can create ill-fitting areas as the stock continues to crush and shift. You can easily tell this is happening if you have to continually retighten the screws. Eventually, it can cause the stock to split. Bedding can also serve as a re-enforcement to the stock. Bare wooden stocks (and most are bare wood inside the action and barrel area) can absorb moisture and cause the stock to warp, creating unwanted pressure against the action and/or barrel. Even on a synthetic stock, you can incorrectly tighten the screws and can cause the stock to flex, creating pressure against the action or barrel in areas you don't want it to. This can ruin accuracy. I hope this doesn't confuse you (I'm confused a little after writing it) or discourage you. It's just another part of the process to properly fit a barrelled action to a stock. I'm sure I've missed some points in all that, so hopefully someone with more experience than I can make better sense of it for you, and fill in the blanks.