i had one delivered dtome from Boyds and it had been shaed down on one side of the stock near the position at the rear of the inletting for the action, and was visibly poor in workmanship. I called them and returned it to them the stock probably had a small defect/crunch and they just smoothed it over and made the stock look lopsided. they were uttely dumfounded about the stock but payed the way back to them and the price of the stock