Bedding/stiffening pillar bedded houge rifle stock?

[syoungs]

Recently got a new Howa 1500 in 6.5 creed, and am not super happy with the performance. Gun would shoot 2-3 in a sub moa group, then let a filter or 2 go 2-4" off. Shooting off a bipod flexes the stock into the barrel, on both the sides and the bottom portion.

I absolutely love the looks, feel and ergonomics of the stock, and don't want to ditch it unless I have to. I think stiffening the forearm and bedding the action will make this gun a shooter (expectations of sub moa at 100, want this to be a 500yd deer/antelope gun).

Anyone have any first hand experience, I pulled the stock off to make a game plan, and immediately hit a snag in my plan, I'm curious if the areas circled are just some "overflow" from the rubber coating, or if the rubber actually runs deep. If it's just overfill I can grind it out of the way to allow the bedding compund to adhere.

Any tips or suggestions I'm open to. If this won't work I'm going to drop it in a bedded Boyd's prairie hunter I think, possibly a BC medalist.
Thanks!

[2labs]

I gotta bunch of um, bell and Carlson, glass bed it Done! Ditch the houge!

[syoungs]

Here's the pick. I realized right after posting how silly it was to worry about damaging this stock, as it'll most likely get trashed anyways. So out came the knife and Dremel. The parts I was worried about cleaned right up, looks like the back part of the recover was touching these, and then about 4" forward of them If the dirt and oil are any indication.

I'm gonna try to fix it up, if for nothing else then something to do the next few evenings lol

[2labs]

My problem was flex with a bi pod, half hour in your no longer free floating!
Been making these guns great for a while, junk the houge!

[syoungs]

I'm gonna end up ditching the houge I think, I cleaned up this one, ground the barrel channel down some, prepped it all for bedding. But, the price it'd cost me for supplies will just be better spent on a new stock I think, further inspection of the stock shows I would need to add some sort of bars inletted down the sides of the action to make it even resemble a good stock. Oh well, worth 45 min of tinkering!

I really like the look of the Boyd's prairie hunter, and the price is appealing.

Wheres the best place to purchase a b&c? Seems I read all sorts of reviews on guns saying get a 200$ b&c and be done, but looks like they are closer to 300$. Did the price go up or am I looking in the wrong places?

[2labs]

My last B.C was 179.00 from Stockeys. I haven't tried a Boyd's they look great, but I think you might have too pillar bed it yourself?

[syoungs]

Yeah the Boyd's do not come pillar bedded. I don't think it'd be a big deal to do it though.

For the price difference, and the fact I like the asthetics of the Boyd's better, I may go that way. I'm sure it'll be leaps and bounds over this garbage it left the factory with!

[2labs]

They shoot so good! It's worth the little bit of work!