Thanks for that Mike.

I'm going to check mine this evening.

Now I'm confused! I was looking at the Omegas and Cva's last week and asked everyone what their opinions where... Everyone was saying get a T/C ....Great guns, superb accuracy. Won't be dissapointed....etc...etc..etc... Now I hear about these problems....???? Don't they have a lifetime warranty? Made in the good ole US of A right? Top Notch. So now why the problems. Some of the same people who where trumping them up are talking like they've got problems with them now (omega Synthetic stock). I can tell you one thing, if there's a problem with mine I will call T/C and send it in to have it fixed. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the advice here. But everyone has there own opinions and very few are the same. So in my opinion, I think there are quite a few people who have an awful lot of time on there hands. JMO

T/C's are by and large good guns. But like any brand will have their own issues. To be fair T/C isn't the only muzzleloader maker with poor synthetic stocks. Savage and Traditions also have poor synthetic stocks. Ironically CVA has better synthetic stocks than T/C, Traditions, and Savage.

But to be fair It's only an issue if you shoot more than any 10 people.

Well I guess I bought the right one then. Because there where a dozen different ML's on the rack and every one of them had a synthetic stock. I went to Gander Mountain and all most all of them there had synthetic stocks also. As a matter of fact the only ML I have seen in a very long time that don't have a synthetic stock is my T/C White Mountain Carbine my dad had bought 20 years ago! Also all of my buddies guns have synthetic stocks. And when I go to the range it seems most people with Ml's have synthetic stocks. Can I even buy a wood stock it?. I honostly have to say except for the 20+ year old Carbine. I'm not sure I have seen a ML with a wood stock. Except for the laminated thumbhole Omega stock. But people say those much aren't very good either. We'll see what MR. BIG RACK BUCK has to say about it in a couple of months!!!!

There may well be a lot of opinions on this, and there is certainly the fact that they should not have these kind of issues . There is nothing in the operators manuel to tell you how to avoid them. I in my case having the proper equipment and having had quite a bit of experance with such things I got out the book which says that size screws in such circumstances should be torqued to 28inch pounds so every time I have taken it apart I have done so when I put it back together. Having shot it for two years with out a problem I belive if it cracks now it will be either poor material or a defect in the material. How ever I also believe that to loose or to tight can cause this problem if its to loose the barrel assm. can slam back every time you shoot it and because of the way they are constructed I believe you can crack the by screwing down the stock so tight that it will eventually crack.
Just my opinion. Lee

I checked mine after shooting this morning and it was fine.

Lee further to your comment about the torque specs of the action screws. 8" lbs is very low, I torqued my savage to 25" and 30 respectively and even that is low. If these are the specs for the omega then I can see a lot of owner over torquing and that certainly can cause stock/bedding issues in the long haul???

I have long believed in bedding and many cases pillaring my hunting rifles. I know such a procedure maybe to much for the average gun nut, hunter or shooter but the cost of having a good smith do it isn't that bad considering the investment we put into our gear and hunts each year.

Yet another Omega owner who doesn't have cracked stocks, unlevel QLA muzzle, or problems with shooting 209 primers here! I dunno about you other guys, but I'm still going to keep recommending Omegas.

skeeter 7MM,Sorry about that it was a typo I have some keys on this old puter that dont work quite right; that should have read 28. Lee

HuntAway

This write was not written to indicate that all Omega plastic stocks will/could crack. It was written to bring forth my thought that the stock is to flexible and may and probably will end up putting pressure on the the barrel and as the barrel heats the pressure will become more intense. And at some point the POI will change. It is a simple fix to float the barrel as I indicated. The front recoil lug is the suspect lug because it is so shallow as compared to a laminate stock. Further in my stock, the new one and the old one, when you set the barreled action in the lugs it will rock back and forth muzzle to breech + their is an ever so slight movement back and forth in the recoil lugs. All this movement can lead to problems down the road. I truly am not as concerned about the recoil movement up as the movement back and forth. You can hold the rifle in the stock with a teflon zip lock - it will not rise up an stress that at all but it will certainly recoil back.