What's your opinion of putting aluminum bedding blocks in a factory or replacement stock that doesn't have them? Does it really make that much of a difference in accuracy?
I have a synthetic thumbhole stock I picked up at a gunshow for my rem 700 adl 270 win. It isn't marked anywhere so I don't have a clue who made it but I'm having some accuracy issues I didn't have with the wooden stock. The barrel is free floated but I think the action isn't seating solid enough when I tighten it down and with the recoil that it's shifting. I've seen the aluminum blocks you can mount in the stock after drilling it out which is supposed to hold the action more solidly and was wondering if this, along with some glass bedding, would help and greatly improve my accuracy.
It looks like they're 1/2" or so aluminum round stock drilled out and I thought they would be easy enough to make with a drill press, drill press vise and files to get the action fit right. What type/hardness of aluminum would be best to use if I decided to go that route?