Working up loads today with a mate and his recently bedded new CZ 458LOTT and a chronie, only to have the stock split at the pistol grip.(22 rounds through this rifle at 2170fps).
Lets just say the owner was not impressed..

Defiantly better now than on a Safari, hey.

Had a similar thing happen to a client with a brand new Sauer a couple of years ago. All you could see on the outside of the stock was what looked like a hairline scratch on both sides of the wrist of the stock......... when I twisted it, the crack just opened like a rotten fruit. We were very lucky I spotted it before he fired the rifle in that condition........ luckily, I had my spare 404 Jeffery so he could finish his safari................

He'd had a recoil arrestor fitted into the stock before he came and if that had been fitted incorrectly, that may well have had something to do with it........

Had the same thing happen to a buddys new CZ 458 Lott as we were working up loads last year about a month before Safari to Tanzania.

He was shooting it off a lead sled. CZ replaced the stock and then the bolt would not close.

He finally took it to a local gunsmith who sort of fixed it just in time.

His CZ 375 is a good rifle but the Lott CZ was and still is unreliable.

Gotta love those ugly HS-Precision stocks.....

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
Working up loads today with a mate and his recently bedded new CZ 458LOTT and a chronie, only to have the stock split at the pistol grip.(22 rounds through this rifle at 2170fps).
Lets just say the owner was not impressed..

Defiantly better now than on a Safari, hey.

A PH I was hunting with said that as the ele cow came charging, his client's new Searcy double wouldn't fire (and he had to drop the cow).

Have you fired that new Searcy yet?

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Originally posted by Palmer:
He was shooting it off a lead sled.

I have been told that lead sleds have a tendancy to do that if you put over 25 kilos on them. The commercial where the guy shoots the .416 with the egg...he has over 100 pounds on it. This will break scope reticals & stocks!!!!

We have the lead sled, and have just fired several hundred rounds off it with 3 rifles

A 9.3x64, a 416 Rigby and a 450 Vincent.

None suffered any ill effect whatsoever.

In fact, we were very surprised the 450 Vincent did not break the stock, as the rifle was very loose in the stock.

No guessing who was responssible for that!

And we have close to 50 pounds of lead on the sled too.

I have found where the lead-sled is not a good idea is with two piece stocked rifles, and particularly with heavy recoiling S/S double rifles. This is because the S/S double rifle recoils, not only back, and up, but to the side as well, placeing undue strain on the wrist area of the butt stock. Besides the chance of very expensive stock damage, the double will not shoot to the regulation of the rifle in such fixtures!

In bolt rifle with heavy recoil, stock bedding, and choice of grain selection is criticle. Top that with the rifle being placed in a fixture that is almost un-movable, and, again, IMO, you are asking for trouble!

Heavy recoiling bolt rifles are a perfect excuse for well designed synthetic stocks!