So, it was with great excitement that I tore open the cardboard box that arrived from Boyd's this week, and before long the Savage Model 11 .243 Winchester was sitting in its new At-One Pepper Laminate stock. It's a really nice stock and I'm overall very pleased with it, especially considering the price point.

My best grouping last week was just over .3 MOA with the plastic factory stock, so I was anxious to see if I still had something close. Then I get to the club this morning, set up at 100yds, and suddenly my groups have opened up significantly (1-2"). I'm more than slightly puzzled.

Some details:

- The barrel is free-floated all the way back to the recoil lug (I was able to run a folded piece of printer paper all the way back)
- The receiver screws are torqued to 30 in-lbs, per Boyd's recommendation
- I'm not making any bone contact (cheekbone or chin) with the stock - this was actually one of the reasons I really liked the At-One - the ability to adjust the cheek riser and LOP for a comfortable cheek weld
- I adjusted the accu-trigger for a slightly lighter pull since last week, but I would expect that to work WITH me, not AGAINST me.
- The stock is NOT pillar-bedded or glass-bedded (I'm assuming I'll probably want to glass bed the action, but I didn't expect that it would have this significant of an impact).

Help me, Obi-Wan(s) - you're my only hope. :)