Is this Aussi wood?

r.fallon

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When I listened to the "experts" and used oven cleaner to strip a coachwood stock, it turned pink. That might be a good indicator! Aussie wood always has the little copper recoil plates in the draws, or rarely, walnut recoil plates. They also usually have threaded brass rods in the sides of the forearm, top to bottom, just above the trigger.
 
Finally got the pics to load, it looks like Indian wood. Not just because of the Indian screw, either. If it were Australian, WW2 production usually has SLAZ 42, or some other year, stamped in the barrel channel. Aussie wood retained the old forearm shape, too, and your wood seems to have the later type of straight taper that Lithgow never used. Indian wood is the lightest of all the L-E stock woods. Also the most likely to crack and crush. Coachwood and Queensland maple aren't much better, but are heavier than the Indian stocks.
 
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