I have a 338 WM Ruger 77 MKII with a laminate stock. After about 30 rounds of fairly tame ammunition the whole area of the stock that transmitts the recoil (behind the front action screw) broke loose within the stock. The German importer of Ruger guns replaced the stock with a new one, which lasted for less than 20 rounds before an almost identical piece of wood broke loose.

Has anyone else had this kind of problem with the ruger laminate stocks? The 338 is the strongest-recoiling round sold with that stock. I wonder whether the design simply isn't up to the calibre or if I just had bad luck.

Just buy a high quality composite stock. Bell & Carlson and McMillan both make stocks to fit your rifle.

With two consecutive failures, I wouldn't take the chance again.

I just fixed a ruger laminated stock on a 243 the web behind the mag well and in front of the trigger cracked. The middle action screw hole was drilled wrong. I glass bedded the whole thing front to back of the action is shooting good now. I found that there is lots of air space to fill up with glass. Then again most factory stocks can use glass bedding.

I think p_dog is on the right track. Get some glass bedding in the recoil area & you should be fine.

I had the same recoil pad damage to a .270. The glass bedding suggetion not only fixed the damage but made the rifle shoot very accurately. You have some good advice. wunbe.

Plywood has a tendency to do that in any make of firearm...Laminate should be glass bedded at tang, recoil lug and 2" of the barrel under the chamber...A couple of cross bolts look good and make it doubly effective...not an expensive fix.

I guess my question is, "Why in hell should JV have to fix this damn stock? " He paided his money for a whole rifle that sure should give better service than this! Are the rest of the Lam Ruger stocks having the same problems? Seems he got a pc. of junk to me. If nothing else I would have Ruger put it in a stock that would last hundreds of shots like other rifles I know and own.
I am not saying solutions you gave on how to fix it are wrong, I am just saying Ruger put out a bunch of crap at JV's expense.