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Jack Dunross

I'm just chasing a bit of advice. I have a Winchester M70 Extreme Weather in 30-06. It came with a Bell and Carlson fibreglass stock.
The rifle shoots all over the place and I have tried multiple different brands of ammo. I have checked all the torque setting on action screws and optics etc and went through the barrel break in process. I have noticed that the stock is quite flexible in the forend. Like way more more I would expect for a fibreglass stock with an aluminium back bone. It's as, if not more flexible than my plastic stock ruger american rimfire and definitely more flexi than a tikka t3 lite.

My next step is to have a crack at bedding the action. I had the idea to stiffen the forend at the same time by routing out a channel along the length and epoxying in a carbon fibre rod. I'm just curious though before I go through all that. 1: would that even work? And 2: Could the non bedded action potentially have pressure points that could cause the stock to flex more, which could just be fixed by bedding?
I don't have another fibreglass stock to compare it to at this stage, but I have a krg bravo chassis on my tikka 223, which is significantly stiffer than the Bell and Carlson.

Cheers!
Jack