The crack on the right side clearly extends into the checkering, and there are also small chips in the wood behind the lock.
I can see two small tight cracks behind the left lockplate. They are much easier for me to see when I look at them on my cell phone, and expand the pic, than when I exlarge the pic on my computer monitor.
I've fired L.C. Smith's with this type of stock cracking without making matters worse, so I assume that the cause of this type of cracking might be due to the repeated use of loads that are inappropriate for an old vintage L.C. Smith. I'd be a lot more concerned that the barrels might blow up and send a piece of shrapnel into a child's skull, and then have to explain to a Judge in a Civil Suit, why I failed to measure the barrel wall thickness in a place where they cannot be measured.
