One thing occurs to me, they may allow you to trade this stock up for the laminate stock with you paying the difference between their costs. You shouldn't have problems with the laminate stock.

I have the black synthetic stock. Evaluating the design, here is my 2 cents. The design begs for the cracks right where they appear. Look at the pockets behind the lugs. That structure makes the stock ridgid and forces the strain of spreading the stock to be concetrated right smack dab in the center. Ironically, the feature I liked so much about the stock, the support on each side, funnels spreadingstresses to the center,I think. That makes sense to me anyway. If you look at your Omega stock, its design allows this kind of stress to be distributed throughout the whole of the bottom of the stock.

Without testing I couldn't know,but for receiving recoil, Ilike the design of theKodiak better than the Omega hands down because there is so much more there to receive it, (again, I think the design calls for receiving recoil primarily along the sides of the stock, where the Omega receives it primarily on the bottom of the stock). For preventing those cracks, Omega wins hands down. As I own the rifle,I'll continue reporting my impressionsand if that changes, I'll definitely let everyone know.

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It occurs to me that firing will cause additional spreading of the stock. Expanded by breech gas, the barrel itself would provide a short but sharp spreading moment to each side of the stockwhere load bearing of themomentisfocused right where the cracks develop. I would definitely agree that firing, though notrecoil,contributed to the cracks.