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I would bet Purdey, Boss and H&H haven't used a dozen sticks of UK grown JR in the last twenty years, but perhaps someone reading this knows someone over there and can penetrate the snob wall and ask one of those guys. Maybe we can have three classes, Circassian/French for the really good Juglans Regia from across the Atlantic, English for our homegrown light colored JR .... just make sure the blanks are stamped, Made in America .... and Black for our native Juglans Nigra (or is it Niger? Or is that a country?) Actually a top piece of JN with flame or crotch figure is as gorgeous as anything from Europe, maybe it doesn't cut as well tho. I prefer it for two piece stocks on American lever and SS rifles, seems more appropriate somehow.

Re: grafted wood. I bought this one from Preslik a few years ago. The graft line is clearly visible along the base of the blank.




cheers,
- stu

I just now measured the one piece rifle stocks on quite a number of rifles in my collection at anywhere from 30" to just over 34". The major length piece on original Mauser full stocked military rifles is 33". I have some 90+ blanks stacked and drying, and measured those at from 34" to 42". The 42" blanks are a good bit longer than needed. It's no trick at all to cut 3 foot blanks from mature walnut trees. I simply do not understand why we would think that American stock makers could not quite easily cut 3 foot or longer blanks from our own walnut trees. I must agree with Brent D in this regard. As he says, even 5 foot blanks could be had from native stock. Shorter blanks for bolt sporting rifles were and still are just not a problem from American trees.