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totally understand where you are coming from... but, the laminate is a far more stable platform than the composits and it provides theowner the ability to complete a regular bedding operation both action and barrel if necessary... The composits on the other hand were constucted to be light with very little excess material in them. The thumbhole is actually easierto work with than the non-thumbhole - but in reality it has less materal in it. No barrel channel - no ram rod channel
The thumbhole I have is so much more stable than the non-thumbhole - there really is a difference. It was really easy tosolve the problems with the regular composit and I think it will even be easier to solve the stock problems of the thumbhole - if it is a stock problem.