K22,
I guess that to a certain extent, I am old school. I grew up in the hobby doing my own work, adjusting triggers, floating barrels, and bedding actions, all with wood stocks. I have never purchased a tupperware stock, nor am I likely to, because they do not lend themselves to becoming the sort of finished project I expect to be able to produce. This is not to say that they cannot be part of a rifle that performs satisfactorily, depending on what your accuracy goals are. To illustrate this let me tell you about a strapping young building inspector that a friend of mine and I ran into at a local range. He was shooting a Remington 700 in 300 Ultra Mag, that was basically unmodified except for the addition of a decent scope and a bipod. He was shooting factory ammo. Having sheen that we were doing pretty well with our rifles, he asked us if we had any idea why his relatively new rifle's accuracy might have deteriorated. Instead of his usual 1 1/4" groups, he was shooting groups that had increased to around twice that. After asked about how he was cleaning the rifle, and looking in the muzzle and down the bore from the breech end I determined that it did not seem to be unusually dirty, so the next thing that I asked him about was if he had checked the action screws to see if they were tight. He didn't know that that was even something that needed to be done. He had never touched them, so I got out my Chapman screwdriver kit and found the correct Allen bit and checked the screws. They were loose, about a quarter turn, so based on experience and feel I tightened them to about the maximum that I thought that the stock ( a plastic one) could take, without problems. After that he shot another group, that I could hardly believe, shooting at a featureless orange aiming dot, that was about 8" in diameter, off the bipod, he shot a group that could almost be covered by a dime. I told him that he should save it because it might be the best that he ever shot with that rifle, so he retrieved it, and I measured it, and noted the size of the group the date and the rifle on the face of the target, an signed it as a witness. Some months later another friend, who was the assistant city manager of the same town, told me that the fellow had framed the target and that it was hanging on the wall behind his desk. The point of the story is that if someone had told me that that rifle, with that stock, factory ammo, shooting off a bipod, at that target, had shot that group, I would have thought that it was back of the gun shop BS. Accuracy is where you find it, and sometimes it comes from equipment that you would not believe would work.
