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My plan is to refinish the entire stock set. I would just live with the scrapes but the entire stock set has a weird sticky feeling to it. I tried to clean it with a mild detergent and water and it only seemed to make the "stickiness" worse. The original finish also seems to attract dirt. If my hands have dirt on them, it all comes off on the stock, which can be wiped off with a damp cloth. I don't know if the previous owner put something on it or not.
I would just start with some high grit sand paper and go from there. I'm sure you could get all the scratches out and then use a natural finish from minwax or something and then a nice poly. I bet you could get it looking really nice. I just refinished my AK's, but my wood was basically unfinished when I started.
The whole seed oil thing was too much work for me. I just did a few coats of bush on polyurithane and that worked nicely IMO. I like the glossy look so I went with a semi gloss, but I'm sure you could get a satin finish as well.
Here is a before pic
Here is what they looked like after