OOps,

Just dug out my copy of Greener's "The Gun and its Development". On page 270 he writes, "The material most generally in use for gun stocks is heart walnut (Juglans regia) ----- 'English' walnut is the trade term used to designate a finely-figured variety suitable for guns stocks. It seems paradoxical to state that it is chiefly imported." He does note that English grown wood was available but tended to lack color and was seldom available in quantity.

Jerry Liles