Ya know, if your gonna go with an after market stock anyway, I'd give it shot! I have a 700 ADL I got as a gift from a girlfriend that mush have hated me. It came with a plastic stock! Worst shooting rifle I ever had! So I tried taking it apart to check the bedding, couldn't get the barreled action out of the stock! Finely just in front of the fore arm I slammed the barrel on the back of the couch. Took several blow's but it came off. That thing didn't need action screw's! The inside got a really major over haul. the stock was tight into the barreled action every where! Today I have replaced that stock with a take off 700 stock I found. But when I was done with the plastic stock, it would do 3/4" all day long!
I have a plastic Patriot stock because the only thing I could get that first one in was a plastic stock. O ordered a new wood stock soon as I got home with it new. I do always check new rifle's for bedding problems and couldn't find any on this rifle, I was impressed. But couldn't see how to bed it if I needed to, plastic insert get's in the way. Think I have it now though, going to try bedding under the plastic insert under it and on the wood. Mostly what I think might be inproved
is the recoil lug. I have also though of piller bedding but don't think I really want to try myself as I've never done one myself before. No idea what will happen yet but we'll see. Anyway so long as your going to go with an after market stock, I'd give it a try if I were you.