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Sir Khulu,
Condolences on the broken stock. $#it happens.
I had some early CZ 550 Magnum "Safari Classic" rifles from circa 2006.



I shot them a few times, just test fired, then
I dutifully sent them to a wonderful gunsmith for crossbolts, pillars and glass bedding that the factory neglected.
He was moving from a shop in Knoxville, TN to Murfreesboro, TN at same time he got the job done.
He drove them in the back of an SUV to Nashville, TN where I met him for the pickup.
The .404 Jeffery emerged from the transport with a broken stock, the .505 Gibbs was fine.
Bad grain structure in the Jeffery's wood is all I can figger:



CZ-USA replaced the stock free of charge. I got a "Kevlar" synthetic as they called it back then.
They renamed it the "Aramid" after the Kevlar folks wanted royalties on the name, I guess.
Bell & Carlson has been making them all along for the CZ 550 Magnum,
and subsequently selling them for about 2/3 the price that CZ was getting.
Those broken pretty stocks probably hastened the demise of the CZ 550 Magnum, bottom line thing.

Lesson learned, this is how I pay insurance on wooden stocks:



I gave the same treatment to a CZ 550 Magnum walnut stock with better grain in the grip and have perfect confidence in it.
I would recommend this for any really powerful rifle like a .458 WM+.
It is, afterall, more powerful than a SAAMI .458 Lott.

Other important securities to be considered in magazine-repeater bolt action rifles:





Not all rifles have bottom metal built like a bank vault,
but some can be rebuilt like a brick dunny: