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Hi, has anyone had a problem with these ?
A guy brought one to me which had split from the latch slot , through the rear fixing screw insert hole and on the the back of the wood at the knuckle end of the iron.
When it was stripped we noticed a steel plate which was bonded into the wood about quarter of an inch from the rear of the wood, it had cracked away from this and made for a tricky repair. It's fixed now and ready to have a spot of grain pen on a small bit of filler I'd had to use near the latch slot where a small piece had dropped out.
I'm wondering whether there's an issue with the wood here and if that's why the steel insert was bonded in at the factory to beef up a weak spot ?
Any ideas please ? I can't post pictures here but could send one via email if anyone would be kind enough to post it for me.
cheers,
Nick.

I have one and vaguely recall the screws working loose on the fore end. I believe I tightened them and haven't noticed any issues since. I wonder if they have a tendency to back out and the play causes splits?

Hi Dan, the screws were loose when he brought it round, he'd shot a lot of clays that day, maybe I should ask him to bring the barrels and check for a bulge ?
I may be thinking too deep but it just popped into my head.

I Googled it and (if the internet is to be believed) it appears it was a pretty common issue on some of the earlier models to the point Browning repaired them for free.

I have a first year Cynergy that has not cracked.

Estimate 10,000 target shells through it.

I do keep the screws tight.

Be advised that if you send one to Browning it will be returned with a heavy trigger. Why they insist on doing that to us is a mystery.

Not just everyone can do a trigger job on a Cynergy either, it's a difficult thing to work on.

They had a good idea there in the basic action design, but then they missed the boat with just about everything else.

This universal porting nonsense on everything they make now costs them sales.