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I'd cut it up into a bunch of forend caps, grip caps and butt plates...Geo

I have an 80% blank (rosewood) for a SR Mauser. I have not decided what to do with it. Dense and HEAVY. Finish is another issue.

Nope .............just a competition shooter who owns one Perazzi. But, that's not the point. The point is ....... what did the original poster's question have, even remotely, to do with what kind of wood is on a plain Jane Perazzi?

Answer, clearly, nothing.

Do I detect a Perazzi basher?

SRH

No, not a Perazzi basher at all just pulling your leg Stan.
Interestingly enough I wonder why of all the trees that grow Walnut is a favourite for gunstocks , surely there must be other choices in this wide world?

Happen to have any pictures of it? I think mine will go on the wood pile until I can find a worthy project for it.

Ive heard reference to solid rosewood stocks in gunsmithing kinks and also in monty kennedys book on checkering - just to say it has been done!

Husqvarna stocked guns in at least three different woods ............birch, beech and walnut.

I have a 1947 model Husqvarna Mauser sporting rifle (.220 Swift) that is stocked in what they called Arctic Birch, but it is really Silver Birch I believe. I've had it for many years and it seems to be a stable wood, and it doesn't seem to be much different than black walnut in density, though usually somewhat lighter in color.

SRH

Stan, I also have 2 Husqvarna Mausers stocked in birch or whatever, seems to be stable and they shoot well. They are stained to try to emulate walnut, I wonder why? If you were buying your Husqvarna today and had a choice of birch or walnut for the stock which would you take?

I'd stick with the birch, James. I love pretty walnut, but the birch is just something a little different, and I think it's kinda neat that it grew in Scandinavia before being transformed into a gunstock, and ending up down he'ah. If they stained mine, they didn't use much. It looks nothing like walnut but is pleasing to the eye to me. Not blonde, but not dark either.

I've got an old Lyman 25X LWBR scope on mine. Fun to take potshots at crows with it so far away that they think they're safe. I had to glass bed the action and first few inches of barrel, float the rest of the barrel and put in a Timney trigger to get it to shoot to suit me. It does pretty fair for a tiny barrel like that. Minute of crow, or better. 52 grainers are what it likes best.

SRH

If it was Brazilian, and I had the necessary documentation, I would send it off to Martin guitar in Nazareth, Pennsylvania and have them build me a D28.