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I have just recieved the CZ 550 laminated express stlye stock from Jim Brockman's shop. For those of you that are looking for a really nice replacement piece of wood for your large bore CZ's, This is great! I ordered mine with the cheek piece(you can also get it with out one). It is of the small oval like on many English nitro express bolt rifles, with accent line and very well done and comfortable. The color and grain on the stock is very nice and does not look at all like a peice of plywood. Because CZ does not use a barrel band sling swivel, the swivel stud is installed in the front of the forend. It works well although the rifle sits a bit higher than those with the extra distance of the barrel band type due to the long 25" barrel on these rifles. The stock is trim in the right places with good thickness around the magazine and butt pad area. The forend is short again like the prewar mauser sporters. Two cross bolts at the recoil lug and between the rear of the magazine and trigger, again very well done. The inletting is perfect. Very snug around the barreled action, trigger guard, trigger unit and magazine box. By snug, read press fit. You will not need any epoxy to fill air space on these stocks. I'm not sure how they achieve this fit except that with the resin impregnated laminate it machines like a soft metal rather than wood. The stock is trim through the wrist and has a slight pear shape to the forend. There is a metal cap on the pistol grip and a nice large soft pad on the butt. The comb has a slight rearward slope for iron sight use, again like the prewar mausers(not as pronounced as the originals). I only added a bit of Brownell's agraglass to the primary and secondary recoil lug mortices as insurance. I wanted a really nice stock for my .458 Lott that was solid, would not crack and would not take gobs of bedding material to fill air space. From Brockman's, I believe I got exactly what I wanted. The CZ 550 holds five down and one up the spout---a tremendous payload of powerful rounds. Cleaned up the trigger a bit and lapped in the action. Put a nice big bead from New England Custom Guns on the front and I am ready to shoot the hell out of it to get ready for my August Zimbabwe hunt. I will certainly order another one when I recieve my CZ 500 in .416 Rigby. Those of you that are thinking about the new calibers, 404 Jeffery and 505 Gibbs may want to check these stocks out. I am very happy with my choice. Good luck and good shooting. Eric