For me, I think bedding is necessary. I don't know how good the factory bedding is, it's just something I plan to do on all my rifles. I pillar and glass bed, and free float the barrels to the recoil lug when I do. I think it's worth the effort, even on aluminum block stocks. I simply don't think the machining, as good as it may be, can equal the tight fit to the action as a good glass bedding job. I have two Bell and Carlson stocks and bedded over the aluminum. Both rifles, Remingotn 700s, shoot very very well. Not to say a given rifle may not shoot well with the factory bedding, maybe it will...,maybe it won't, I just don't feel like wasting time to see, and figure good or improved bedding can't hurt, but only improve a rifle's performance. Just my two cents worth on bedding.
Shoot it first before messing around with the bedding.
