Elkslayer,
Beautiful wood and extra fine workmanship from what I can see. You did a GREAT job!!!!!!
As far as the options for the poll, I checked the only one close to what I liked. I'm not a synthetic or laminate person. I love the real woods. AND I don't use stains.... I like the natural woods and their colors. If you would have had an option of "making a wood stock or purchase natural wood" I would have checked it over all of them. Choate most likely has wonderful stocks, but as I say, I don't like the synthetics especially the style of the Choate Varmint/Sniper stocks. The forend will pass, if it was in natural woods. I am currently working on a Gunstocks, Inc Fiddle-back Maple thumb-hole Stinger. I like the style of that and the rollover stock. On completion I will of course post a photo of it.
And something really needs to be done with the pallet wood stocks from the factory. The synthetics are much better than those. Definitely!!!!
Bill