Beast Walnut for a rifle stock & where to get it.

I've only put a couple rifles together, that being measurably less having custom rifle work done. It all dedpends on what you want and what you are going to put it on. Is it for pretty or hunting, is it for a heavy hitter, or a light groundhog rifle? There a number of other things that will play into what is best including your personal preferences, before some of our more experienced colleagues can give you good advice.
Bfly

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Originally posted by CORNERSTONE:
Beast Walnut for a rifle stock & where to get it.

Cornerstone,

Dressels has their starting grade Circassian walnut blanks on sale for $60!!!
http://www.dressels.com/id52.htm
They also have higher grade stock blanks depending on your price range - From the link above just go back to their home page and follow links to rifles.

If your looking for fitted stocks Great American Gunsotcks can do anything from blanks to 96% fits to custom fits.
http://www.gunstocks.com

Range queen, working rifle, ligth caliber or magnum? I've bought from Dressel's, nice folks, good product. Go straighter grain for heavy kickers or working rifles that may see bad weather.

Best walnut is somewhat dependent on what caliber you're building.

For heavy kickers I'd use english or bastogne or Black.

Throw in glass bedding and stock bolts and you're home free.

Claro is also very pretty but considerablt less dense and should be reserved for lesser powered guns such as the 300 magnums and down.

My guess as to strength is like this:

English/French walnut
Bastogne/Turkish
Black
Claro

Maybe someone will post a different opinion.

CornerStone

www.oldworldwalnut.com
AK

This walnut stock will be for the start of my second project rifle. It will be a short action 7mm-08. Mostly wanting a looker stock that will go to one of my kids someday.

I just got in some real nice Turkish for around $600 to $700 per blank. Pictures to interested individuals. email me at the below address.

We've gotten some excellent Turkish Walnut blanks from Luxus Walnut. They are definately worth checking with.......................DJ

I really like http://www.presliksgunstocks.com/ You can get a pretty stick of wood for a price others will sell you a fairly plain blank.