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Free floating the barrel is the best free mod you can do for sure…
One of the best upgrades you can make to the factory stock in my opinion is a good bottom metal…it really helps to get consistent torque on the action even without pillar bedding. The soft plastic bottom is crap…the good thing is you can transfer the bottom metal to any future stock upgrade so its a good purchase. I have the MT version sold here on 2 – 300wsm rifles and its awesome…The rifles are shooting so good I can't justify changing or upgrading anything else…
I have not noticed any measurable increase in accuracy switching the recoil lugs to steel…from 223 right up to 300wsm…all calibers leave the slight indent in the lug but it does nothing to degrade accuracy. The upgrade is for more piece of mind and aesthetics then anything…steel is obviously stronger but the aluminum lug will perform well. I did however find that when switching to a steel lug some of my loads had to be tweaked a little, guessing the steel on steel has a different harmonic frequency than aluminum on steel. It was only a small tweak, a click or so on the scope or + / – to powder charge to get the rifle shooting same POI again…but there was a change.
See great picture attached from MT showing the indents from rifles on the aluminum lugs…versus steel.