I used to boil them when I was refinishing them like Henry Ford building model A's. Boiled....sanded with a DA, then with 40 grit paper to restore the funky surface from the arsenal then several coats of iodine dye...after drying for a couple days in the sun a mixture of 50/50 boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits.
Too good of a finish on military rifles looks fake.
I have also used pine tar. It's all in what you want.
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Our forefathers would have already been shooting...by now.
"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." "Violence of action means the unrestricted use of speed,strength, surprise and aggression to achieve total dominance against your enemy...any fighting technique is useless unless you totally commit to violence of action."
Burning huts in commy vills worldwide since 1968 
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