While I can, and do, appreciate the workmanship that goes into stocking a gun with an unusual wood, I am too "conservative" to really like any of it. It almost always comes out looking gaudy, or overstated. As much as I like beautiful curly maple, I don't like to see it on anything other than muzzleloaders of the appropriate type. When I see a gun, of any kind, stocked with a wood that wasn't used on them originally, I have to make myself try to like it...............and I usually fail. Maybe if shotgun makers had originally stocked their guns in dogwood, or heart pine, I would see things differently.
JMO, not worth much..............SRH
