The 175 SMK may have been developed specifically for and in Remington M-24’s. Of course a good bullet doesn't lose that characteristic, but these are one hole bullets through a heavy 700.
Seated here with IMR 4895, for my gun 42.2 grains, these bullets shoot in the 1’s at 100 yards.
To me, free floating is not a settled issue. The question I’d have for those most in favor of bedding or even glueing would be, why stop at the action? My thinking has been that the barreled action is a “unit” and if squirming around loosely or vibrating is bad for the action, to do, it may be bad for the barrel.
I haven’t had many of my HS stocks bedded because the action already sits on a metal block, but I have no regrets with this one.
Remington’s detachable box wasn’t extremely popular IMO, at least I don’t see it much. The stock needs to be relieved for the box’s inset and integral release buttons.
Most bottom metal handles the securing and release of the box but Remington put that feature in the box itself.
This bedding job is so tight so as to discourage unnecessary removal, and I simply take at his word, my bedder’s assurance that it
can be removed.
This is one of those guns where a bunch of components that were not actually very expensive or “special” at the time, can be assembled in a way to be one of those permanent “keepers” that I’d rely on as implicitly as their “betters” in the most important instances.