I can't wait to get my Finnish Mosin sporter finished . I have contracted a logger in Northern Wisconsin who specializes in blanks of Arctic Flame Birch from the Northern areas of Michigan , Wisconsin and Minnesota which have large expanses of Birch forest. I have 4 more high grade Arctic Flame Birch gunstock blanks right now and a project to duplicate Tikka Master Sporter stock for a Mosin will be in the works shortly as I finish up the first project .