There are many substitutes of wood
such as, plastic, nylon and metal for the
manufacture of rifle butt ; but wood is
preferentially used for its special characteristics.
Walnut is the best known wood
species throughout the world for the purpose
because of its superiority of specific
properties over other species. This species
is not available in our country and, as such,
Bangladesh Ordnance Factories (BOF) were
dependant on the imported Chinese Walnut
(Juglans regid) till 1981 for the manufacture
of wooden parts of the rifle. In
1982, Chickrassy was introduced as an
alternative to Walnut on the basis of limited
tests conducted at BOF. Since this