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I wish people would stop promoting this foolishness. Nothing needs that much oil. 23 coats is insane.
maybe thats why people have issues with "oil" finishes...you end up with a coating of oil vs it absorbing into the wood.
it cracks me up when people go to such lengths to remove every drop of cosmo from a mosin or yugo stock yet want to completely drown a USGI stock in BLO or Tung.
from Ballistol safety data sheet
Ballistol is an alkaline, emulsifying oily cleaner
you would think that would have a negative effect on wood and oil based wood proucts
and with the only ingredients listed is Isobutyl Alcohol .......you wonder how it does anything?
its all good in the end you use what makes you happy.
Tung oil is not shiny if applied correctly. its only shiny if you allow it to sit on the surface and dont wipe it "dry" when appling.
Which is also why so bad talk PTO or BLO is they apply it to heavily ....
You are correct however even Hickcock 45 uses it on his wood stocks.
All I know is it's been used long before you and I were born for both wood and metal.
To each his own.
If you want to go back in time when most of these rifles were made natural oils were used to keep the wood from drying out resulting in cracking and also repel water. Remember these were used in all sorts of weather conditions.
If you have a chance to obtain a sample of Ballistol you will see it is a very oily solution. Go figure given its ingredients. Call me old fashion but if it worked for my Dad and has worked for me I stick with it.
Thanks for providing the indigents of Ballistol