I love it when woodgrain makes a stock look like it is on fire.
Agreed. I had a Ruger red label 20ga (I foolishly sold here on the fire years ago) that had a buttstock with wood grain that looked three dimensional in the sun when you moved the stock side to side.
I figure even if there isn’t any game to get, I can spend my days in the woods looking at stocks like these... although it’s more fun squeezing the trigger!