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 learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong