"There is a laser cad system that will engrave the checkering into a stock and when its done it looks like it was all hand cut." Maybe to those like YOU and Stevie Wonder, the checkering looks the same. Knowledgeable people who appreciate custom stock work can discern the difference from 50 feet away.
Can't say. Is that where you hang out? Same area as Jeffery Dahmer? We're 360 miles northwest of Milwaukee, in God's Country, where neighbors have each others back and the Sheriff is a dyed in the wool "Oath Taker".