i didnt think u were being a smart butt or a mangina. The so called experts at the store were just feeding you a line to keep you happy. When you are into sales like them, you feed the customer anything to get them to buy it.

Just shoot it and once you notice either cracks or even the POI changing when you take the barrel off the stock, thats when you make the phone call and have the stock replaced with a good one.

Someone on here some time back was having problems with his cva kodak and after 2 replacement stocks, he got cva to replace it with a laminated stock. If cva can do that, i believe TC shouldnt have to even think about doing it also.