lets see your curly maple!

TripleDeuce660

TripleDeuce660

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looking for pics of rifles with curly maple stocks. Preferably any of the cz, especialy the varmint .223 . However i'd like to see pics of any brand with curly maple.

Are there any pro's or con's to curly maple vs walnut other then how it looks ? I read some stuff said its not as hard and durable.
 
I had a stock made a couple years ago by wenig custom gunstocks in missouri. I sent them a piece of burl maple to make a butt stock and forearm for a browning sporting clays gun. They fitted me 5 years ago so they have my dimensions and i have sent them several pieces of wood in the past. Anyway the burl maple sure was pretty but it did exactly like Fred said it might. After about 4 months and 3 thousand shells later, it busted. The burl is certainly pretty but not very strong. Curly maple should be a bit stronger if cut correctly. I was digging around looking for a picture of that stock but I cant find one. I really love fancy wood on my shotguns but for rifles i like man made materials. Love that maple!! Lee
 
Maple is softer than walnut, while pretty the curl to the grain of curly or burl maple tends to weaken it, and iut is a bit heavier than walnut. I Built a Tennisee flinter a number of years ago with a curly maple stock it was a pretty gun but tended to get dings and nicks easy. It finaly got a crack in the wrist, so it became a wall hanger it was distroyed in a house fire ten years a go along with all the photographs I had of it. It was pretty but if/when I build another ML it will be with a cherry or walnut stock and be for shootin not lookin at.
 
i wonder why cz is only making the 527 varmint .223 with maple, seems stupid. they must have overstock of the wood. maybe they will start making it with walnut in the future.
 


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