jmr40,
That styro peanut idea is good one. I'll try that in future.
Knm84,
SPS stocks have two pressure pads at the end of the stock pressing on the barrel. I know everybody talks about free floating barrel as being best for accuracy but I don't fully agree with that. In my experience free floating barrel is most accurate for sustained fire where barrel gets hot so for target shooting multiple rounds, varmint shooting or other situations where you fire multiple rounds in limited time it is the way to go. In hunting you only fire one or two rounds at most so the barrel doesn't get hot for the second shot and in that situation pressed barrel will shoot just as accurate or maybe even more accurate. Most important is the first shot out of cold barrel so you want to make sure you know where it will hit.
In terms of synthetic stocks I currently have four different rifles with them. I have a rifle with the current SPS plastic stock, two Remington 700 with the older ADL synthetic stock, A Savage 10 with synthetic stock and the Marlin XL with the synthetic stock. IMHO both SPS and ADL Remington stocks are better in terms of flexibility and design than the Savage or Marlin stock. Marlin is not bad but the Savage stock is the worst. Savage stock almost feels like something off of a toy rifle. In addition, with the Savage stock when I have the proper cheek weld the eye is level with the top of the barrel which is too low even when using low mounted scope.