Howdy gents,
As an experienced stock worker, I just have to stick my two cents in here, just can't help myself. While that is definitely beautiful wood, and the stock work done seems well worth the money spent on it, the stock layout was not done to make for a very strong stock. If you will notice, the grain lines run from just behind the trigger bow up into the top of the wrist just in front of the nose of the comb. It is along these grain lines that the stock will easily break if subjected to very much side stress/strain. I have had to repair many, many stocks with broken wrists that have had poor grain flow layout just like this. IMHO, it is not a question of if the stock will break, but when. To make for a strong stock, the grain lines need to flow from the action area straight back and parallel through the wrist and then on into the butt, where it can diverge from there and spread out.
The only exception that I would personally ever make to this generalization is that if the stock was held on by a through-bolt. This affords at least a little bit of extra support to bad grain layout through the stock's wrist. I would feel even better about it if the stock bolt hole were drilled out oversized to accept a full length steel tube, glued in place, that the stock-bolt could pass through. To do otherwise is asking for trouble down the road. You all take care and watch that grain flow through the wrists!
