Stock Finishing

[meles meles]

linseed oil and elbow grease....

[Sim G]

Walnut oil.

Obviously as long as there's no lacquer/varnish/paint on the stock before applying the oil.

[Triffid]

Google for 'slacum oil' if you want recipes to make it up yourself.

Or just go and buy some of the Napier London Gunstock Finish.

The trick is more in how you apply it, rather than which particular brand you use. There's lots of 'how-to' tips out on the internet, I use the one from Maccari using his Royal London Oil, which is very similar to the Napier stuff but harfer to get over in the UK.
http://www.airrifleheadquarters.com/cat ... /42975.htm.

Triffid

[WelshShooter]

Although not a shotgun, I refinished a CZ 452 using Minwax Antique Eil and had good results. Here's a before and after. You can see where the grain hasn't been filled initially and that the colour was a bit tacky. With the minwax oil I did in total 7 layers with buffing between each coat. It took a long time but I think it was worth the effort.

[safetyfirst]

I did a CZ with linseed and white spirit, half and half at first, lots of elbow grease. Then more concentrated oil, less and often. Came out lovely.

[safetyfirst]

Terrible photography though.

[Pete]

Here's one I did, Anschutz stock from the days when they used real walnut. (Currently a Musgrave 6BR)
I simply removed all the old varnish using wire wool. This gave a very smooth satin finish, so I decided not to get involved with grain filling.
I just applied Sainsbury's walnut oil (£1-60) liberally every day for a week, rubbing it in with a clean rag.
It soaked in well, and left a nice satin finish. It dries quite quickly as the oil polymerises in contact with the air.

Pete

[legs748]

It really depends what you want to do. If you want to go back to bare wood I have had fantastic results with CCL gun stock refinishing kit. If you want to give the surface a bit of a cut back and then repolish I have used the rubbing compound from the above kit (looks like brasso, smells like brasso, imho IS brasso!) to cut back a bit and remove surface scratches and then a bit of oil then a coat of wax polish. It also depends what finish is on there already, an oil finish will be happy with oil, if it's a fully sealed polyurethane type varnish a bit of a buff up is your only option, oil will just sit on it till you wipe it off.