Quote History Originally Posted By DH243:
That stock is beautiful, whole rifle is slick, but that stock...
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Thanks. Believe it or not, that is actually the stock that came on it. I've seen a lot of recent Tankers and Loadeds that have come with stocks that look just as good. I don't know what the stock contractor did, and I can't remember who is doing it currently, but they've been a lot nicer looking recently.
Mine had a very faint Tung oil odor to it when I got it out of the box, and it was fairly dry. This pic is with probably between six to ten applications of tung oil, starting off 1:1 with mineral spirits and gradually reducing the ratio to all Tung oil. The wood grain really is great to look at, and I think the rifle would be completely different in any synthetic stock.
This is classic steel and wood, and I wanted to keep the rifle as close to that as I could. I was even hesitant to put an enlarge mag lever on it.