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June 10, 2026
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Good evening everyone! I have been trying to contact a gunstock carver, actually 3 of them that you can find on-line and have sent each multiple emails and even a Facebook message with no reply’s whatsoever. So I was hoping that I might find some information here as to a carver that would be interested in creating an upland game themed type of carving on one of my model 12’s. So if anyone has someone in mind could you let me know? Thanks, Larry.
December 25, 2016
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Personally I am not a fan of stock carving at all. I don’t mind fine engraving, but stock carving is a bridge too far IMO. If it makes you smile, that is what matters but do bear in mind. The worth of the gun will not be enhanced, in fact it may devalue the gun. If it is a collectable model 12 carving will devalue it. Collectors prize originality above all else but condition. Ask here with pics of the gun if it matters to you.
April 30, 2023
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I know a guy in Missouri you can reach out to, name is Coty Winsauer, I’ll PM you his info.
March 31, 2009
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You might contact FEGA. The firearms engraving guild of America. Or the ACGG American custom gunmakers guild. These organizations may be able to help you.
January 20, 2023
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“Everybody to his own choice” etc. But I have yet to see a Winchester with a carved stock that didn’t wear the Mark of Caine, priice-wise. A lot of it is ghastly.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
