Snakewood is another favorite of mine. It's even heavier than Desert Ironwood.
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Snakewood is another favorite of mine. It's even heavier than Desert Ironwood.
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The subject of Kentucky (or Pa.) style long rifles opens a whole new category of beautiful wood. Curley (or fiddleback, etc) maple was the preferred wood for some of the most beautiful guns ever created on this or any other continent. A few samples here.
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entropy
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Your Drilling keeps needling me.....you keep posting it and I might have to move drillings up the list past an Ithaca Knick or Flues SBT. 
NIGHTLORD40K
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That Mauser doe.....
I cant get a good pic to save my life, but my 1st Gen. Universal has really nice wood-
No idea what it is, ash or birch maybe?
An early laminated stock. Pretty neat.
Reminds me of one of my Meucci SneakyPete cues.
That Mauser doe.....
I cant get a good pic to save my life, but my 1st Gen. Universal has really nice wood-
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No idea what it is, ash or birch maybe?
If by 1st generation, you mean it is compatible with a GI issue carbine and is marked U.S. Carbine, Cal. 30 M1 on the receiver ring, then the stock is supposed to be American Walnut. Later after they started making their own design, the wood varied by model number. Some were walnut, some birch, and some just were American hardwood, which means whatever the heck they had laying around.
Your Drilling keeps needling me.....you keep posting it and I might have to move drillings up the list past an Ithaca Knick or Flues SBT.
Take another look. I believe that to be a Vierling. There are two different rifle cartridges in the holder. One appears to be 22 Hornet. I believe there are two rifle barrels stacked under those shotgun tubes.
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troy fairweather
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I believe he has a chamber insert.
Except the big cartridge isn't a 22. At least it doesn't appear to be.
troy fairweather
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Goes in the shotgun barrel.
cdb1
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I’m still snickering.
DM~
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It's a Krieghoff Semper drilling.
The small caliber is a Krieghoff insert barrel, I have two, one in 22LR and the other is 22 Win. Mag...
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While it may not have a lot of figure, I'm a sucker for the arctic birch colors as seen on Russian SKS's, Mosins, some Swedish and Finnish guns.
Something about the mottled light and dark wood just does it for me.
Something about the mottled light and dark wood just does it for me.
Gordon
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Only one I have access to right now
With a gun like that......well, snooty is almost a right......
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I enjoy your posts of your snooty neighbor's firearms! That wood is wild!
Not only nice guns, but you give me a good chuckle!
(snooty neighbor, 
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Mostly rifles but not all. The rifles were all stocked by my father-in-law. The top 1895 and the bottom 1886 were his rifles that he left to me. The 1894 is mine. I built the electronics for a stereo system for him and he surprised me with the stock on the 1894.
The Ruger Blackhawk grips are my work. The curly maple on a old model Blackhawk and the walnut on a new model 1976 45 Colt / 45 ACP convertible.
The Ruger Blackhawk grips are my work. The curly maple on a old model Blackhawk and the walnut on a new model 1976 45 Colt / 45 ACP convertible.
Those are gorgeous!
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