I'm no fan of beavertails myself but this one is better than most.
Not arguing with Dave, but I will say that stockmakers I've spoken to tend to tell me that it just as much work to make a proper forend as a boxlock buttstock (some have told me it's harder). Different folks find some things easier than others and Dave's experience is personal, my is second hand.
And having made my first foray into checkering, forends, to me, are harder to get right than a butt, even with simple patterns. On a butt you're pretty much working on one plane whereas with a forend you are working on three, up one side, across the bottom and down the other. I have a Marlin lever with a squirrely looking checkered forend.
