Must be something about Iowa trees. The ones I have cut on my property have also been quite red. Not too highly figured, but quite red. FWIW, Winchester used to get most of its walnut from Iowa and Missouri in the old days. And while some of the redness in an old Win 85 stock is the colored oil they used to finish with, it is also in the wood.

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