Shes all done!

[frontier gander]

MANY coats of low gloss tung oil, buffed every 3 coats with 0000 steel wool. Last night I rubbed it down with boiled linseed oil and let it dry over night, wiped it down with a rag and shes very good looking now. Its amazing what an oil finish does VS a spray on finish, this stock was originally a orange looking color.

.40cal GM TC Hawken

[ken]

Looks really good Now I hope It shoots as good as she looks     ken

[Candle Snuffer]

It does look good!

[JoeG]

Looks really good you did a nice job on the lock moldings

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I've got to hand it to you, FG...from your photos I see two things.  The grain of the walnut appears to be pretty well filled, and the finish looks well done.  Looks like a dense piece of walnut.

[Pete G.]

Whenever you clean it use linseed and then wipe off as much as you can with a paper towel. Then it will really start to glow.

You tie a string on the TG so you can find your rifle when you drop it in the snow?

[frontier gander]

I'll be tying a leather weeping heart capper onto the other end.

[hpdrifter]

I always wanted to do that to mine, but the brass got a nice patina to it and I didn't want to disturb that.  It was close to orange itself.  I also wanted to take a little off of the trigger pull length, but someone relieved me of my TC, so it never did come to fruition.

Also, a little more drop woulda been nice.  Come to think of it, I kinda like my Lyman GP a little bit better than my old TC.

Anyhoo, that sure is a nice looking rifle now. Nice results.

[hanshi]

It's a very nice looking job you did on that rifle; looks really good.  Plus it's a .40!

[Scout]

Very PURDY !  I didn't know TC made a .40 in that style.

[WaterFowl]

That rifle has a Green Mountain dropin barrel on it.
15/16" x 32" they are shooters!