From looking at your pictures, Bowman, I don't think there's any real need for more than (a) a gentle, but thorough cleaning to get off what accumulated crud there might be and (b) careful, by-the-instructions application of several coats of a good gunstock wax. Guns like Mark's and mine (below) get that look from good care and decades of use.



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Last edited by Dave in Maine; 09/12/12 06:24 AM.
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