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There is a real nice piece of maple in the classifieds. My stainless 300saum will wear a fiddleback maple stock eventually.

It's my opinion that walnut should be used for a wooden rifle stock just as much as leather should be used for baseball gloves. Having said that, you guys should see the wood that some custom recurve/longbow makers use.

For that route, cocobolo and myrtle go together like peanut butter and jelly.

I think I would be a happy man to own ANY of the stunningly beautiful examples shown in this post. Make s me want one.....amagine that! Goodshot

EdM - Did Biesen build that rifle also?


ddj

I've had a long lived fetish for both claro walnut and burl maple.
I stocked a Mini Mark in .223 for a friend in burl that was nearly a twin for the butt on my A5.