Walnut has long been the classic for high grade rifle stocks. I expect in part due to beautiful patterns but also due to working aspects from a time when hand cut checkering was a thing. Now that many of the hard parts of stock making are automated there should be no reason manufacturers don't branch out into other woods that may not be as friendly to carving with hand tools.CZ rimfires used to have some of the prettiest walnut of any factory rim fires, I sold the stock off one I had for more then I paid for the rifle and bought a plain jane one to put on it to squirrel hunt with.. Prettiest piece of walnut that wasn't custom that Ive ever seen on a production gun.
Really nice walnut is getting scarcer by the year, most really nice big walnuts with really crazy grain have been logged out for a long time.
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