Ya know, this thread got me thinking about all kinds of stuff. My main summer project now is to make a new stock for my Mossberg 341/Western Field 830 thing. Right now it has a pretty plain Monte-Carlo (I think) style stock on it, no checkering or sling mounts or anything. I'm comming up with a new stock design incorporating the following features: free-floated forend, steeper grip angle, finger grooves on the grip, shorter pull length and longer drop, plus sling swivels and a bipod. I'm thinking of making it out of popler and painting it black then doing a red/orange flame pattern on it. The gun itself has to have a new bolt dust cover and I'm gonna have the barrel and reciever reblued. Man will that look spiffy. I haven't made up my mind on wheather or not I want to put a scope on it.
Another thing you (Ac1d0v3r1d3) got me thinking about is doing black tiger stripes over the wood on either my SKS or my 10/22. And I was also just thinking that a silvery snakeskin style stock would be b****in' on that chrome SKS. I'm trying to remember where I saw a Mini-30 with a stock like that before. But man, think of the possibilities...