Just this afternoon saw one of these babies in 458 Lott (Re-marked from 458 Winchester). Looked very nice. However there are no cross-bolts in the stock. Does the stock shatter after the first shot? Anyone had an experience with one of these? It was the walnut stock, not the laminate.

The chicken littles were predicting exploding stocks, except it hasn't happened.

Actually, I thought the inletting sucked (specifically metal to wood fit of bottom metal). On all three I have seen the bottom metal was sunk into the stock between an 1/8" and 3/16" of an inch!! The forearm is chunky too, but I could live with that.

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I have both the .416 and the .458 Lott in the new American stocks, and have talked to Mike at CZ-USA about the lack of crossbolts. He said they have had absolutely no problems with the newly designed stocks. He offered to install crossbolts in either of my American model stocks (for a VERY reasonable fee), but he assured me that I was wasting my time and money to have it done. So far, there have been NO incidents of split or broken American stocks returned to CZ-USA. My local gunsmith also agreed with Mike that crossbolts were indeed unnecessary.

I wonder why the hogs back unless bedded had a tendancy to split the stock ??

If the 416 and 458 lott are OK, I think I see a 375 H&H in my future. It looked good enough for me. I can't afford or justify a custom rifle. I did have a winchester super express (two piece bottom metal and classic crf) in 375 that was hell on everything in the USA, but when I was laid off in 1997 I had to select what to keep and it was a toy that had to go.

A m550 CZ in .375 H&H is a VERY usefull tool...