...is this stock made out of?

Yellow Mauser Stock

I have never seen something quite so loud. Might it come with a dimmer switch?

Orange-Osage/ Bord'arc, would be my guess.

Hog Killer

Got one just like it. One of the last ones from Fajen, Maple. The color is off a bit in the photo.

OK, I'll buy that its Maple or Osage Orange.

I was sorta under the impression that it might be some awful laminate and permanently yellow. Ewww...

Thanks for clearing it up for me!

I think its birch that has been photographed under fluorescent lighting.

The grain I can see doesn't look like maple.

I agree with Rick0311, Birch.

I know I saw CZ offering Birch as a stock option in their catalog.

Probably popular in Europe.

Genius Uglious comes to mind.

Maybe the lights and the camera, but this reminds me of some of the electric colors the benchrest guys are having their stocks done up in.

Yuk........

Osage Orange is yellow like that and extremely hard. I seriously doubt that if you could get a piece large enough that anyone would try to work it into a stock. I also doubt that it would "fuzz" like is shown in the inletting. Yellowhart also looks like that but would be very expensive in that size.

My guess is maple or birch, with the photo color off by incandescent lighting.

Regards,

Dan

Looking at the grain in the butt, and the fuzzing in the magazine well, I'm only half joking when I say Yellow Pine...

I could be wrong...but as a long time photgrapher and a sometimes printer of color pictures, this looks like a picture with poor color balance. The whole picture, even the background material, has the same yellow-green washed out tint to it.

Osage orange or as we call it in this neck of the woods Hedge is a much brighter yellow than that. It actually can grow very large.

The grain's too straight to be osage orange. If such a chunk existed, the traditional bowyers would have paid much more for it than a stock blank would have been worth.

In the same bow-making theme, it could be lemonwood. Lots of bows made from that with straight grain, and it's a white-ish wood.

Jaywalker

It looks like it could be yellowheart or also some times called Pau Amerello from South America. Just my guess.

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Originally posted by Mark:
Looking at the grain in the butt, and the fuzzing in the magazine well, I'm only half joking when I say Yellow Pine...

Yupp looks like pine!!!

/C

Looks like East Texas pine to me!

myrtlewood with poor color and a coat of "golden oak" wiped on, wiped off..

probably as hard as my head, but heck, it would be a treebone camo stock to me

the chippiness and buttgrain are a dead giveaway

only wood i've seen, other than "fossilized" spruce that is both chippy and fuzzy

jeffe

Firewood.

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Originally posted by Glen71:
Firewood.

fuglywood

(who would do that to a rifle?)