Jeagers weren't stocked in maple. You don't want the stock shaped . The parts will dictate your shape.
Jeagers were most certainly stocked in maple. In Steischloss Jaegerbuschen, by Erhard Wolf, there are 4 rifles made in maple "ahornholz".
Actually more than that because one of the numbered guns is actually 2 rifles 2 smooth bores and two pistols all out of maple.
They span the 1st half of the 18th century, to the second half of the 18th century, so it was not a fleeting fad.
I lent out my copy to friend last week or I would give the pages. There are 45 numbered guns in that book and ten percent of them are made out of maple.
That's quite a statement..... I would call maple stocked jeagers. incredibly rare at best.
I've ony had the oportunity to handle 6 original German Jeagers. Five of them were stocked in walnut. Four of them were at the Winternationals version of gun makers hall. Two of them were in a late friends private collection. One was stocked in walnut. The other was stocked in what could have been maple or some kind of fruitwood. It was stocked in what is known as a "Capuchin stock".
Before the Nazis came into power private gun ownership was legal in Germany, and target shooting was very popular. George Shumway states in his book that thousands of private guns were also destroyed by the allies after WW2.
I also find it interesting that in Wolf's book the text does not make any mention of maple stocked guns being rare.
Were jeagers generally stocked in walnut yes of course. But to say that they were not stocked in maple is not accurate.
