First of all, thanks Dave. Your post got me off the fence I've been sitting on for the last 10 years. My tang safety Ruger .270 has sat in a Ramline stock since 1987, with the wood stock underneath my bed. I can get sub 3 inch groups at 300 yds with Berger 150 VLD's in "Black Lassie". However, I will be bedding and freefloating the original stock next week thanks to your pic heavy post. If the bedded wood stock can equal the Ramline I will be in heaven. For practice I just bedded (4 hours ago) a 338 win mag action into a Ramline stock which became available for a trial run when I put the action in a Boyd's laminated stock. I hope I can pop it out tomorrow morning. Thanks again.