Woodrunner -stock architecture ?

[bob in the woods]

I have been looking and looking at this rifle with anticipation of purchasing one.
The more I go over that stock, the more I'm seeing some french influence . Am I totally off my rocker here ?  I just can't help but see some similarities to the N.E.Fowler's I have.   

[alacran]

I just looked at the photos Bnewberry posted of his woodsrunner, and I see your point. The butt does look quite similar to a NE fowler.

[rich pierce]

Wallace Gusler and others wrote that they see this architecture as strongly influenced by English fowlers and trade guns of the mid 1700s.

[Dwshotwell]

I haven’t held a lot of English fowlers  or New England fowlers - Ok, I haven’t held any of either with the exception of the fowler in this picture, which I built and  is based on the Roger Lewis fowler. To me, the Woodsrunner (the unfinished gun in the picture) is a lot lighter - almost “petite” compared to that gun and the Kibler Colonial, also pictured. I do see the connection in the architecture, but feel the WR is probably closer to a trade gun? I haven’t handled any of those either, but pictures I’ve seen make it appear those might be lighter like the WR.