Far, far more T/C stocks have been cracked due to ham-handed knuckle-draggers and their screwdriver than have ever been due to recoil. and the few that cracked from recoil IMHO was due to the fact the macho-man shooter was usin' a "Lead Sled" because they were afraid of a bit of recoil and didn't have sense to just load it down. my very first muzzler was a 54cal Renegade kit I finished myself. I put thousands of 430gr maxi-balls down it's gullet settin' on top of 90 to 120 grain equivalent loads of Pyrodex with no damage to the stock or any other parts of the gun. and you could tell it needed a new nipple when it started puttin' itself on 1/2 cock.