I'll start by saying I know NOTHING about "Carolina" guns but I'm going to go WAY out on a limb here, especially since both Bill Shipman and Mike Brooks have commented without mentioning the wrist line, but, to my untrained eye, the wrist line doesn't look quite right. It seems to me that the wrist line, as it flows through the buttstock, would look better if it more closely followed the belly of the butt rather than curving /converging. The way it is it looks as if the wrist, were it to continue, would come to a point just before the butt plate and as such, goes against the flow. As I said, I know NOTHING about Carolina guns so take this with a block of salt. The only other thing that my untrained neophyte eye noticed was that the rear point on the side plate panel doesn't quite flow as my eye says it should. It appears as if the last 3/16 to 1/4" of the panel (as it come to a point) is 'bent' upward and would flow better with perhaps +-1/16" less wood left on the last +-1/4" of the the top line to eliminate the slight upcurve and perhaps +-1/8" more on the last +-3/32" of the bottom line to eliminate the somewhat abrupt curve in that last +-3/16". I'm quite certain that I'm wrong in my observations but that's how I see it. It is a great gun overall and you should be very pleased with it. Thanks for sharing.
