I Yesterday I was going over to see if I needed to refinish my mid 70's Bear Grizzly and found a hair line crack in the riser from under the shelf and goes all the way through the limb.... YUCK..
I don't know how long it's been that way, but now that I know it's there, I will never be comfortable shooting it.
I could send it to Bear, but maybe it's time to just put it out to pasture, it lasted a long time. Bear has a lifetime warranty on the risers, but the paper work was never sent in.
Awww