paulvallandigham
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You want to seal the wood in the mortises, for the barrel, tang, lock, trigger guard, and the end grain on the muzzle, and the butt of the stock. You don't need as many coasts of gun stock oil finish on these, but you want a light coal to keep water, and oils out of the wood, particularly around the tang and lock, which are the weakest spots in the stock due to how much wood is removed there.
I like to annually put a coat of spray wax on the stock, before deer season, in the barrel channel( mortise) to add some wax to water proofing the wood stock.
Oh, take a long rod and piece of rag soaked in gun stock oil finish, and run it into the ramrod channel to seal that wood, too. You don't want water swelling the wood, sealing that channel, and locking your ramrod into the stock when you need it on a rainy-day deer hunt! BTDT! :shocked2:
:surrender: [Ain't it nice when someone else makes those stupid mistakes, and is nice enough to warn you??? :wink: ]
I like to annually put a coat of spray wax on the stock, before deer season, in the barrel channel( mortise) to add some wax to water proofing the wood stock.
Oh, take a long rod and piece of rag soaked in gun stock oil finish, and run it into the ramrod channel to seal that wood, too. You don't want water swelling the wood, sealing that channel, and locking your ramrod into the stock when you need it on a rainy-day deer hunt! BTDT! :shocked2:
:surrender: [Ain't it nice when someone else makes those stupid mistakes, and is nice enough to warn you??? :wink: ]
