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Spent yesterday on bedding the new stock. The area around the recoil lug turned out really well and as usual, the rear tang isn't the best but at least the action is sitting on something solid. Not sure why I always have problems with the rear tang...it never turns out as nice as the recoil...

I remember seeing the top picture on here before and seriously thought about going that route. I couldn't bring myself to drill holes in my brand new stock yet. After a year or 2...I might try it. Definitely good ideas.

Well...after getting out to the range a couple of times, with disappointing results, I finally got around to checking how good of contact the receiver has with the stock. Not good. Looks like I'll doing some skim bedding tomorrow... (sorry for the crappy picture)

I thought about doing a bedding job on it, but I wanted to how it shot before I dove into that. When I installed the stock initially, I had to remove some material around the tang so the action would move back far enough to get some contact with the recoil lug, so I'm sure a bedding job won't...

In my experience, it depends on the gun. On my X-Bolt it did changed the POI a little...not more than an inch. That was about it. On my buddies Ruger, it doesn't seem to make a bit difference whether it's on or off. On this gun it seems to be giving me some fits with tuning (or even finding)...

It's a mount for a flashlight I use hog hunting. I just leave it on all the time.

Not really. The gray webbing adds some good texture. There shouldn't be a problem with it slipping out of my hands if gets wet. The butt of the stock sounds hollow so I might pull the pad and stuff something (not sure what) in there to fill that void and maybe add a little weight to the back...

I didn't shoot it before altering the adapter so I can't say. I wouldn't think it's a good thing to have the mag well metal as bound up as it was.

I noticed that too. Even though this stock seems to weigh a little less than the one it replaced (Boyds Prairie Hunter), the kick didn't feel near as sharp.

Funny you mentioned that... I've never really been a fan of synthetic stocks until I was back home last weekend and my dad brought out his new Weatherby Accuguard (257 Roy by the way) with this exact same stock. The more I looked at it, the more I wanted one.

Gotta show'er off...

I ended up cutting the adapter so it fit under the front and middle action screws only. Instead of it being one piece it's now 2 pieces. Seems to work.

I installed a new B&C Medalist stock on my Model 70 280 tonight. This rifle has the 2 piece bottom metal so I ordered the adapter with the stock. After free floating the barrel and some other minor fitting I discovered the bottom metal adapter fit really tight in the mag well after the...

OK. It's not causing an accuracy problem so I won't worry about it. Thanks for all of the input on this.

No insult taken. The reason I ask is I had a new barrel installed on this particular rifle last spring so I'm wondering if this is something my gunsmith should've caught, or it's just one of those things I would have to specifically ask to be done?

Is it something that needs to be fixed and if so, what's the process to fix it?

I ran a little experiment with my homemade trigger weight scale with all 3 bolt actions. This is what it takes to lift the bolt after firing: 280 (Model 70 Classic / claw extractor): 7 lbs (+/-) 25-06 (Model 70 Classsic / claw extractor): 6 lbs (+/-) 243 (Model 70 XRT / push feed)...

No...I understand. It just seems a little excessive too me. I might give the bolt and chamber a good cleaning this afternoon and give everything a light coat of oil to see if that changes anything (I'm guessing it won't).

What exactly is that?

Ok...I won't worry about then. Thanks for the help.