I bought my .270 Rem 700 BDL Stainless Laminated several years ago and applied bedding, but no pillars. It shot very well, but after a couple of years, accuracy dropped off.
Has anyone else here found that accuracy loss over time might be attributed to spreading of the relatively soft birch, especially for those rifles with round-bottomed receivers?
I've noticed that some of the after-market stock companies, etc. have installed cross-bolts in the action areas to prevent spreading, as manufacturers of heavy-recoiling models have done with wood stocks of all kinds.
(All wooden stocks that I've bedded in the past few years have been pillar/action bedded, and that's worked fine.)
Has anyone else here found that accuracy loss over time might be attributed to spreading of the relatively soft birch, especially for those rifles with round-bottomed receivers?
I've noticed that some of the after-market stock companies, etc. have installed cross-bolts in the action areas to prevent spreading, as manufacturers of heavy-recoiling models have done with wood stocks of all kinds.
(All wooden stocks that I've bedded in the past few years have been pillar/action bedded, and that's worked fine.)