I must really be strange as I have the synthetic stock Omega and I don't seem to notice any "unbalance" problems. Maybe it is because my rifle has a scope sling and a simms recoil pad. Mine seems to be heavy enough although without the recoil pad heavy loads definately make you uncomfortable. I prefer to save the weight for carrying and I never notice the recoil when hunting. With the simms pad the recoil is fine up to 100gr. of BM3 and 300gr. bullets which makes just about 2000fps. I guess everybody has different problems.