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Texas Mesquite stock project...finally complete

Mine is a 2-piece for a Remington #6 copy. I have enough lying around that someday I might try a full length version.
Love your work. You're an inspiration.

I might try Locust one day. Just for the halibut. But I dunno. Honey Locust, not Black Locust. Black has few thorns and splits like butter.
Honey is the stuff with nasty, long thorns. It doesn't split like the other type.
Either one make excellent firewood. Burned a whole lot of it as a younger man. Back when I enjoyed cutting firewood.
Locust has a very light pinkish color at the heart. I'd just seal it up when finishing. No stain at all.
 
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Granted, but I wanted to shoot it, and the scope that's going on this one is in Japan having the reticle swapped out. So I had to choose between letting it sit in the safe or putting the T36 on there and slinging lead downrange. It actually handles pretty nice with the Weaver.

That being said I've already swapped the T36 out with a Leupold 45x just to see how that set up feels.
You will like your March.
 
Mine is a 2-piece for a Remington #6 copy. I have enough lying around that someday I might try a full length version.
Love your work. You're an inspiration.

I might try Locust one day. Just for the halibut. But I dunno. Honey Locust, not Black Locust. Black has few thorns and splits like butter.
Honey is the stuff with nasty, long thorns. It doesn't split like the other type.
Either one make excellent firewood. Burned a whole lot of it as a younger man. Back when I enjoyed cutting firewood.
Locust has a very light pinkish color at the heart. I'd just seal it up when finishing. No stain at all.
I had my eye on a sassafras tree that was leaning towards my garage. It had a nice 2 foot butt log that was fairly straight for 15 feet before it branched off. I was in Texas when my neighbor cut it down to “do me a favor”. Almost cried at that one.
 
I had my eye on a sassafras tree that was leaning towards my garage. It had a nice 2 foot butt log that was fairly straight for 15 feet before it branched off. I was in Texas when my neighbor cut it down to “do me a favor”. Almost cried at that one.
I just cut several short logs when the leaves are off and seal the ends with shellac. Put them in the corner of the garage.
4 years or so later I give 'em a look and see if there's any potential. If not, they make good firewood.
About as low-tech as there is. But I'm just messing around. No pressure. No agenda.
They'll typically split somewhere, but if you understand how to cut a board from a log then it's not a big deal. And if they're full of checks, still burn fine.
 
Beautiful. Love mesquite.
I have a 460 Weatherby with a factory mesquite stock and a rifle, XP-100 in 14/221.
I cut some mesquite from in front of the hunting blind in TX and used the wood for tip and grip, main wood was pecan as there are pecan trees nearby on ranch.
I posted here before an Encore with an Osage Orange stock.
 

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