The pressure pad is a standard Remington thing. Normally on a wooden stock it its no trick to bed the action, free-float the fore-end and feel like you did something. Sometimes they shoot better, usually they are a little less likely to change POI.
You can cut out the bedding bumps, pads or whatever they want to call them on the SPS, and take a shot at drilling enough holes and such to get the action bedding to stick.Still some pillars in while you're at it. About this time you will probably see that the fore-end flexs so much it can easily touches the stock. This "sometimes floating, sometimes touching" is worse than what you started with, so next you can either hog out a serious amount of plastic or take a crack at stiffening the fore-end with Devcon, aluminum inserts, old files or whatever. Perhaps you'll do both, stiffen and cut away fore-end material. Maybe it'll shoot better, maybe it won't.
I've wasted enough time on tupperware stocks to not want to do it anymore. With an SPS I'd either just shoot it the way it is, or ditch the stock and start with something worth putting the effort into. If you just want something to do, go ahead.Different people value their time differently. My normal approach is to spend a couple more bucks and get a more stable synthetic, better looking wood or split the difference with a wood laminate.
