sabotloader

I bought a Omega SS with grey/black laminated stock - from that stock the gun shoots great... I later purchased of the internet a black synthetic stock for an Omega from that stock the groups open up mpre than I want. I think I found the problem the synthetic stock was pushing on the left side of the barrel. The othe thing I noticed was the very small recoil lug pockets in the synthetic stock as compared to the deep pockets in the wood stock....

Question are all the synthetic stocks constructed with these very shallow pockets or might this be a z5 stock???? Just wondering....

Thanks for any information - and i hope you all have/had a great Thanksgiving - it smells great here right now I wish it would get done....

mike

frontier gander

Heres my winchester's stock, Im not sure about recoil pockets in it but everything from the grip to the shoulder is solid. Stock actually weighs more than the barrel but it doesnt hurt with heavy bullets or magloads. What did you use to find where yours was rubbed against the stock? I'd like to do that to mine and see what i come up with.

MLKeith

My early camo synthetic stock (not a Z5) looks just like the black stock. I think the main problem with the synthetic stocks is that the screw torque must be exact each time and the real fix is to bed the stock and add metal pillars so that the clamping does not rely so much on screw torque. Mine shoots differently each time I remove the stock. I will fix it before next year as I missed an elk this year due to a 10 inch shift in POI from the sighting in to the hunting situation. I had seen some variation before but this year it was major.

sabotloader

frontier gander

Well, I noticed mine because the synthetic stock was creating a bright rub line along the side of the stainless steel barrel from recoil also on both sides of the reciever. When I tried to run a dollor bill under the barrel from the fore end to the reciever it did not come close to making it down. If I insterted the bill on the right side of the barrel it would slide in just fine + move back and forth from the fore end to the reciever. On the other hand the left side of the stock offered very few spots that the bill would slide in. I did a little bit of inletting (sanding) and cleaned up the problem. I am still faced with the problem I believe thewhole gun is moving in the synthetic stock during recoil. The recoil pockets are somewhat sloppy while in the wood stock there is very little play at all.

I have a Firebolt stock that looks a whole lot like your Winchester stock - I ended up bedding and re-inforcing the lug area, especially since the Firebolt only has one recoil lug.

sabotloader

MLKeith

Thanks for the information and I concurr - I just wanted to make sure there was not a difference between the z5 and others. I will bed this stock winter sometime - probably leave the barrel free floating for right now. The Omega wood stock the barrels floats and is really accurate.

Pglasgow

Is this an ongoing problem with newer Omega, Z5 or otherwise, fitted with a synthetic stock?