Just unboxed my new Streamline 25 in the parking lot of the UPS facility to find this. I'm sure Utah Airguns will take care of me. ?
If you look at the grain in the laminate layers it seems to be moving in the same direction. This means the laminate was stacked for looks, not strength. AA did this with their EV2 laminate stocks, looks over function which lead to a systemic breakage issue at the wrist. This problem won't go away until the laminates is layered in opposing directions. Until then good luck."BeemanR7"Bob,
So sorry for your troubles. UPS claims are a real pain in the arse. What boggles me is the force that it would take to break a laminated plywood stock? They build airplane wing spars out of laminated plywood. It's stronger. Either that or the stock manufacturer is using inferior plies to make their plywood.
I don't know if it's still there or not, but AoA had a used Streamline for sale that had a broken stock too. I believe it too was laminate. It was broke in the same place too. It really makes me wonder what kind of crap they're using to make these laminates. Ordinarily one would expect a plywood laminate stock to be nearly unbreakable compared to solid walnut.
Again, so sorry for this inconvenience. I hope UPS makes satisfaction for you.
BeemanR7