Going to attempt stock refinish

[Woody]

I thought you misspelled redfish and forgot a, to, in the title. And I think that would have been a much more interesting topic.

[Rick]

I refinished both my old SXS 20 and my deer rifle stocks with TruOil in the "way back when" and was happy enough with the initial result, but think you'll find it doesn't hold up to weather as well as you might wish and requires either periodic redoing or better maintenance than my guns enjoy.

[Rick]

I don't recall how many coats, but it was a bunch. Took several using fine emery cloth(?) between just to fill the grain with dust. Can't recall where I found the procedure I followed, but that should be easier with Google.

[ohioduck]

Dad did mine when he got hurt last winter. a coat of polyurethane on a duck gun goes a long way.

[ohioduck]

I can ask him how he did it

[Rick]

Boiled linseed oil alone will little doubt require even more maintenance than TruOil or Linspeed Oil, which are linseed and something more durable hybrids.

(But that's coming from someone who's satisfied these days with annually treating his hedge calls and the places a urethane finish has sloughed off his Montefeltro's stock with Howard's Butcher Block Conditioner to seal out moisture - and looks be damned.)