He’s a very good shot, or so he says
. I only know he sent in a video and was chosen. It was pretty exciting, to be honest. He also makes gun parts, the wooden part? I don’t know guns but the butt or stock? He uses fancy woods and they’re beautiful. My oldest son has used similar woods and made fly fishing nets, among other things.
Marie
The 'wooden part' can be the grips on a handgun or rifle and shotgun stocks. More likely the latter.
A classic rifle, such as the lever action in your photo, a traditional bolt action, or a double shotgun, is greatly enhanced by a custom stock made from a beautifully figured pice of wood (walnut being one example).
Thry are expensive, the more figuring in the wood, the more costly.
Two reasons for this.
The first is the extremely limited supply of suitable wood. Trees grow gradually, so there is no way to increase the supply.
The other reason is stockmakers. These are artisans of the highest order. That ability takes decades to develop. Once the stock maker has a piece of wood, it is entirely a hand making process. Besides the requisite level of skill, this is a very time-consuming process. One wrong move and the stock is destroyed. That is a lot at stake.
But the result can take one's breath away. Although I am not a hunter (except for criminals in my LE days), I just can't picture taking such a piece of artwork into the field.
The tradition of firearms as artwork has been going on since they were first developed.
My fly fishing net is made from wood, albeit a production model. I think the aesthetic of a wooden net is more consistent with the traditions of fly fishing.
