Pedro Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 My new Sako has very NEW wood that hasn't got any patena, ( not sure that's the right spelling), what do you chaps use on your stocks etc.? Pedro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I saw the heading "Polish" and thought, "Oh No, not another Immigrant thread and in the wrong place". Damn the English language and its duplicate spelling system. I don't polish my gun stocks, a wipe with a lightly oiled cloth suits me, but I have used clear beeswax on one or two stocks, just to refresh them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Cheers C. , I went with my instincts and put some beeswax on anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Pedro, use the wax on your barrel and action, as will it will protect it very well. If you want a nice finish on your stock then you must remove the old finish with 0000 steel wool prior to rubbing in the linseed oil. G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 GM, when the old man was up the other day he was absolutely insistant on using oil all over the place and cleaning the barrel after every use. I explained to him the general advice on here about not cleaning the barrel very often, but he disagreed. I think I'm going to clean it "infrequently", but I'm not sure about the rest of it? Any advice? P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Cranfield, People from Poland are Polish. The stuff used to shine things is polish! Now you can see the problems with the innappropriate use of the capital letter!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Pedro, this is an old chestnut and one that will create disagreement as long as there are rifle owners. I don’t clean any rimfire rifle until it shows signs of losing accuracy, which could be as many as 1000 rounds. As for oil all over the place; too much oil can seep into the wood and rot it so do be careful. This includes any solvent which can drip down into the bedding area and cause problems, so if you do want to clean your barrel ever time you shoot turn the rifle on its side and allow the solvent to run out of the side of the action. G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 From looking at other posts I'm tending to go with you on the barrel cleaning. Do you just apply the beeswax to the same places that you'd normally put oil on? P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Cranfield, People from Poland are Polish. The stuff used to shine things is polish! Now you can see the problems with the innappropriate use of the capital letter!! Pedro used the capital "P" appropriately in his heading, which is what I referred to. Don't you think you are getting a bit anal about capital letters ? For your information, there is only one "n" in inappropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Yup, just wipe it onto the barrel and then polish it (with a small “P”). G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 What about the workings? P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 (edited) Cranfield, The second N was a genuine typo. I do know how to spell and I don`t use inappropriate upper case letters!! I`ll be as anal as I like over the correct use of English grammar. Of course I doubt if you would think that your eccentric, and idiosyncratic, misuse of capital letters is at all anal. Edited February 12, 2006 by invector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Isn't the English language marvellous. It'll be even richer with all these new immigrants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 (edited) english language.....if you are from england you are english,if you are from scotland you are scottish,if you are from ireland you are irish,but if you are from wales are you welshish.. Edited February 13, 2006 by mikky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Cranfield, The second N was a genuine typo. I do know how to spell and I don`t use inappropriate upper case letters!! Of course it was a "typo", I believe you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 What about the workings?P. No I don’t use wax on the “Workings”, just a wipe over with an oily rag. G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 You don`t have to believe me, Cranfield. You can take the boy out of the grammar school, but you can`t take the grammar school out of the boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 You don`t have to believe me, Cranfield. You can take the boy out of the grammar school, but you can`t take the grammar school out of the boy. Mmm, now really that’s grammatically incorrect. What it should have read was- You don’t have to believe me Cranfield, but you can take the boy out of the grammar school whereas you can’t take the grammar out of the boy. Much more fluent, and readable. Also noticed that you used the wrong sort of punctuating marks in “don’t” and “can’t”. Now can we just get back to posting about shooting, and leave all this spelling and grammar bull$hit to Guntrader and co. :yp: :thumbs: G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 (edited) nice one gemini strike a blow for the elot elet elis **** it i cant spell it :thumbs: Edited February 13, 2006 by blackthorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I'll stand by what I said. You are obviously not au fait with the structure of my sentence, which was deliberate. Apostrophe corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Oh, right....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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