A few months ago I bought a Remington 700 SPS Varmint in .22-250.
It had a 5.6 pound trigger that was far from clean breaking so rather than mess with the Remington trigger, I replaced it with a Timney and set it for 2 lbs.
The accuracy improved from 0.7 inches to 0.6 inches but I still felt that there was more accuracy in that rifle and felt that the factory stock - a billous green synthetic - was the cause. It was not free floating and I felt that it was binding on the barrel.
I ordered a Bell and Carlson Medalist stock with aluminum pillar bedding and a pachmyer recoil pad. I can now slide a dollar bill all the way back to the first pillar. It was basically drop in but I did have to buy longer action bolts. The pillars are longer then the factory stock.
I shot the same factory ammo and hand loads that performed well with the new trigger and got a 0.18 inch average improvement in accuracy over 39 groups.
Not only that, a number of the groups were under 0.2 inches.
I am now a believer.
It had a 5.6 pound trigger that was far from clean breaking so rather than mess with the Remington trigger, I replaced it with a Timney and set it for 2 lbs.
The accuracy improved from 0.7 inches to 0.6 inches but I still felt that there was more accuracy in that rifle and felt that the factory stock - a billous green synthetic - was the cause. It was not free floating and I felt that it was binding on the barrel.
I ordered a Bell and Carlson Medalist stock with aluminum pillar bedding and a pachmyer recoil pad. I can now slide a dollar bill all the way back to the first pillar. It was basically drop in but I did have to buy longer action bolts. The pillars are longer then the factory stock.
I shot the same factory ammo and hand loads that performed well with the new trigger and got a 0.18 inch average improvement in accuracy over 39 groups.
Not only that, a number of the groups were under 0.2 inches.
I am now a believer.