Pictures of your figured gunstocks

[Autocar]

I have a number of stocks i have done over the years . One is Kentucky Coffee bean on a 30/06 a Mullberry on a 30/06 another coffee bearn on a 338 and I have a walnut alot of figure that will be a full stock out to the end off the barrel in 375 H and H . For me if its not wood its not a hunting rifle. I have hunted in wet conditions in B.C. Alberta Northwest Territory Newfoundland and never had any problems with wood swelling.  Just my two cents  ;D.

[stavebuyer]

My favorite daily carry piece. Came with black composite. I much prefer the walnut not just for looks; they are also thinner and slip through over-clothes easier.



 

This was a Christmas gift from a mill I obviously have a very close relationship with. Somehow composite just wouldn't be quite the same. The flip side and butt stocks are all personalized.  Best gift ever!


 

This little 357 lever gun is one for one in the deer department. Composite wouldn't add much to its charm either.


 

[Walnut Beast]

I love it stavebuyer! Awesome  pictures and your thoughts 👍

[stavebuyer]

And I am not ready for the day until I slip this little Case Stockman with Bone "stocks" into my pants pocket.

One of life's most affordable and useful luxuries.



 

[Walnut Beast]

Definitely a nice handy little gem

[barbender]

A guns "feel" means a lot to me. Most synthetic stocks don't have it, plus a lot of the cheap ones are hollow and I can't stand the sound when things touch them. I bought my wife and I both Remington Mountain Rifles years back. Her's is a stainless with a laminated stock in .260 Rem, mine is blued with a walnut stock in  .280. I wanted the stainless as well but I I wanted a detachable magazine and the blues walnut was the only configuration it was available in. That rifle and I have put some miles on, I try to be careful and treat it nice but I started to figure out that on good hunts, we both come in a little beat up😁 When you're belly crawling across rocks and prickly pear cactus for a hundred yards or more, you don't care as much about the rifle😊 Honestly, if I had a really fine shooting piece, I probably wouldn't hunt with it, or at least not on the more rugged hunts. All of that said, I do have a Howa rifle in 223 that has a Hogue oversold stock. That's a decent stock, and it wouldn't bother me to see it sliding down a mountain quite so much as happened to the 280😂 I may get one in one of the new PRC calibers just to try out. 

[Texas Ranger]

I rode the butt stock of Savage 99 down a talus slope one year, redesigned it significantly.

[tule peak timber]

A pallet full of figured English Walnut stocks. I have no idea what they look like,,,but I own them :D

 

[kantuckid]

When I've hunted the most was back when composite stocks were not out yet. I managed to keep my firearms from becoming a mess by carefulness, and same for my "fancy truck" it doesn't get abused like some I've owned that went in the woods a lot. I rebuilt a wrecked Jeep J10 PU to work for the entire time I was making double payments on our land and home construction loan, ~9 years to pay it off. It was a true POS truck in so many ways I cannot count. I'd rebuilt the cab but traded the regular/rusty bed for a small utility flatbed that I made oak slat sides for. It was a work truck to my school job and went into the woods to pull fire wood,etc.. I'd toss a piece of firewood at it from as far as I could throw it, sometimes I'd miss :D
Misjudged a small tree one time and it found its way to the door of that truck. 
My rifles and shotguns get more love than that J10, and are not used to crawl through crap on my belly nor push down barbed wire fences, etc.. 
I had a neighbor near Valencia, KS where I lived for years who farmed FT and kept either rifle or Model 12 on whichever tractor he was on in fall/winter seasons. Coyotes or a rabbit or squirrel for the pot. They had the blue rubbed off to a silver sheen and buggered up a lot but 100% functional and lubed & cleaned. I get that type of use but not my use. My stocks I've made are all beautiful, some of my others are, some not. If I "had" a rifle that didn't shoot well enough to hit whatever it's purpose was in life, I'd sell it. A deer is not typically a challenging target size wise other than at extreme distances which is not here in the eastern forests. 
I've always enjoyed squirrel hunting with a .22 as it does use marksmanship & patience and hunting skills. I miss dearly miss KS quail, prairie chicken and pheasant hunting, but most of all I miss the squirrels under those huge, towering cottonwood trees across the river from Rossville, KS. Even the local game wardens used their vacations to hunt & trap beaver- where I hunted there, which is instructive in itself. All with nice walnut stocks.
My fancy maple stocked Springfield 30-.06 based.22 rifle almost shoots well enough for competition. Hole in a hole accuracy at 50 yards. I have a Winchester 69A .22 that does almost as well but lacks the trigger job on my .06- .22 and as did the guns of the past has that occasional gem of a piece of walnut that found it's way into a hardware store back when. It's been laying on an old towel on my tablesaw to shoot snapping turtles in the pond outside so as to not bing the stock.  

[Texas Ranger]

Kantuckid, my rifle growing up, still have, is a 69a, as you say accurate and would do better with a trigger job.  But, rabbits, squirrels and turtles were well taken care of for decades, have not shot it much lately, no opportunity, but lots of memories.

[Raider Bill]

Here's my beauty 7mm S.A.U.M. It's a distance shooter but you wouldn't want to carry it long as it's heavy.
Ported, bedded, Presentation blueing and fluted with a 2 lb trigger pull.
No idea what the wood is.
Bought it from a competition distance shooter that was hurting for $$. He had it built by a local gunsmith who has since passed.
Don't mind the cat food. Times are tough... :D


 

 

 

[Walnut Beast]

Very nice looking Bill 👍

[sawguy21]

Certainly colorful, I have not seen anything like that. I found a Cooey single shot .22 at an old home my parents bought, it was in rough shape. The stock had been broken at the grip and wired up. My uncle cleaned it up and made a beautiful stock from Japanese cherry, it was a work of art and I loved it. Many a gopher met his Maker but mom found out and made me get rid of it.

[doc henderson]

I have a laminated stock on a ruger 22lr with a bull barrel, but the same color.  i think that is all the same wood species but aniline dye colored.  very stable.  basically a pretty high grade "plywood".  no offence, and only the positive attributes intended. 

[tule peak timber]

I bought the pallet of walnut stock blanks from a guy going out of business earlier this year. I have no idea (furniture legs???) what to do with them ---so ideas are welcome.

[doc henderson]

i know you do not really do retail.  have someone do face book marketplace or check out local gun smiths.  what is a walnut gunstock blank worth.

[Raider Bill]

I have a laminated stock on a ruger 22lr with a bull barrel, but the same color.  i think that is all the same wood species but aniline dye colored.  very stable.  basically a pretty high grade "plywood".  no offence, and only the positive attributes intended.  

That's ok by me. Guns beautiful, gunsmithing is top shelf and it is a long distance coyote killer.
Guy had several real nice rifles for sale. Springfield Armory M1-A1 with factory Springfield scope, national match barrel and trigger. He also had a M-1 Garand converted to 7.62X51 [.308] by Scott Duff.
It was a nice day for both of us.

[Walnut Beast]

Nothing wrong with laminated stocks. They are excellent and beautiful 

[kantuckid]

I guess the old Missouri stock makers like Bishops, etc., are long gone but MO still has American Walnut Company and some other makers. 
The rifle appeals to me the dyed stock does not. 
I've had a Ruger 77/.22 on my want one but don'treally ne list for a long time. My 1st choice is the French walnut version with no sights which would be tinkered into a shooter as my project.Model 11165

[Raider Bill]

Not that I don't have other things to keep me up at night but last night I was wondering how they get the different colors in a stock like mine?

Are the different layers colored before laminating then sanding down to the different colors or is there some way to color just certain parts like the blue on the stock?

[doc henderson]

yes I believe they have 1/4 inch or so pieces, that they stain/dye different colors then they glue up a block, then cut and machine the stock.  very stable engineered stock as the tension a whole piece might have is cut through, and when re-glued, will offset the others, and the glue will make a rigid piece.  that is what was trying to say before.  very beautiful piece, although not natural, and very stable, maybe a compromise between solid wood and synthetic.  I would call it an engineered product that, like many beams and such, have benefits over a solid piece.   

[tule peak timber]

I guess the old Missouri stock makers like Bishops, etc., are long gone but MO still has American Walnut Company and some other makers.
The rifle appeals to me the dyed stock does not.
I've had a Ruger 77/.22 on my want one but don'treally ne list for a long time. My 1st choice is the French walnut version with no sights which would be tinkered into a shooter as my project.Model 11165

In California the big player is Calico , to the North of me. Their big seller is French, which is really English,,,,,which is actually Persian. Go figure. The blanks I have are all English,or French, but actually Persian. ::)WOC

 

[kantuckid]

I bought a few rifles from a man I once knew in KS, named J. B. Hart (he managed the Topeka city bus operation) when he was in his nineties and had one son, not a shooter so he was divesting himself of firearm related possessions from his lifetime as a shooter hunter. One rifle I bought and later sold (stupidly at that!!!) was a Mashburn .270 Supermag with a French walnut stock. In ~ the 1950's Mashburn rifles were quite a thing and I recall several calibers built off the necked 300 belted cases.
In todays world i suppose they are worth their weight in gold. It had very nice wood indeed as they were one off built rifles.  
Is "Claro" walnut the same species? 

[Walnut Beast]

Interesting story I didn't know. A company in Warsaw MO. Called Reinhart Fajen that was pretty famous for there Walnut Gunstocks was bought by Larry Potter that owns Midway USA. At a trade show back around 1995 Marty Reinhart told  Larry he should buy him out. He did along with Bishops right down the road. Reinhart employed around 80 people. Larry knew he needed to do some upgrades with very expensive 3 and 4 axis CNC machines. They did. They did contracts with Winchester and other big gun manufacturers but there just wasn't enough demand so not long after Larry said they closed everything down and auctioned everything off. I had a catalog (still might) it had pictures of all different Gunstocks from the crotch, stump and many different figures from different areas and grades

[Walnut Beast]