Doug Mann's stock is feather crotch, running "up the limb." The crotch therefore ends up in the buttstock, and the grain turns through the wrist of the stock as it is actually the heart of one of the limbs which made up the crotch. It is certainly laid out textbook fashion. I see some crotch cuts running down the trunk, which I have found is more difficult to get as good a layout. (although on a .22 or other light recoiler, it might make it possible for the entire stock section to be feather.) I sure miss the old days of cutting trees--it was like searching for buried treasure! But the kind of work that will turn you old...Steve