[taylorce1]

It really depends on the stock you are using how you bed the rifle. Pillars are only there to stop the stock material from compressing when you tighten down the action screws. Some stocks use a full length bedding block and may not require any bedding at all.

Regardless of wood/laminate or synthetic stocks I like all my stocks to be bedded. With wood and laminated stocks I always bed the barrel channel as well as well as the action just to stabilize the wood and to prevent problems with moisture or lack there of from affecting accuracy. You can free float the barrel as well with a full length bedding just use a few layers of tape on the barrel. Synthetics I usually only bed the action and recoil lug area, and if needed like Scorch says a couple inches of barrel. My synthetics and wood/laminate stocks always get pillars unless they have the bedding block.