This is a can of worms you just opened. Do a member count, that is about how many opinions you will get on this.
My $0.02 on the matter goes like this. I had a sporter weight Stevens in 243, and just bought a Salvin, sorry Marlage, XL-7 in 25-06.
Both of those guns came with "pressure points" cast into the tip of the stock, to apply pressure on the barrel. Neither of them shot very well, and once you had 2-3 down the pipe, the groups REALLY went to hell. In both cases, I filed them away, and the rifles became perfectly acceptable shooters.
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