Stan,
I cut some Black Locust when I was building my house , and had it sawed up into 1 by and 2 bys. It rings like metal also. I wouldn't want to let an action into it.
Mike
Before I got out of the cow business I had a lot of fence to maintain, and I bought split black locust fence posts out of N. Georgia by the hundreds at a time. You'd better put them up and drive the staples into them before they dried completely, or you would have to carry the staples in a bucket of oil, and drive them in oily. That, or you wouldn't get them in the post. Hard stuff, but I don't believe it was in the ballpark with that osage orange.
To get back on topic, I don't consider any of the three..........persimmon, osage orange or black locust, gunstock material.
SRH
