Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Gunsmithing Remington 788 stock, butt ugle but want to see it prettier hehe

I have a Remington 788 and the stock has a slight orange color to it. I am wondering what/how do I remove this finish and then put on the proper application of something to make it look more natural wood. Will something like Lin-Speed Gunstock Finish and Care do a good job?

I think what I need to do is:
Sand the stock (what coarse sand paper should I use?)
apply multiple coats of Lin-Speed.

If your gun as the same wood as one I tried to do years ago, it is a hard white wood like beech. It won't really take a stain and has no natural figure. It looked worse by the time I was done, and I spent a bunch of time trying.

You might get in the barrel channel and sand down to bare wood. You can test what you are trying to use in there.

Ditto. If it were birch underneath that finish, I would leave it alone, especially if considering an oil finish. I too swore off trying to deal with birch stocks long ago.

The factory sprayed it with a tinted barrier finish. That would be the only thing I would recommend if you absolutely had to muck with it. If you go that route, just strip it, sand with progressively finer grits down to 320x, re-spray it. Catch is, you probably won't find the tinted finish you are after in a rattle can. Got a sprayer setup?

Aqui fortis will work on beech.

Well I cannot tell what kind of wood is on the 788 LH I have. Maybe try the barrel channel and see. sometimes "if it ain't broke don't fix it" works lol.

I have a carbine 788 243 that I bought off a fella a while ago and he used this exclusively as his coyote calling rig out of Colorado. He fugged up the stock cuz he tried to sand it with a sander and it was not smooth and rounded. I sanded it to a smoother finish and left it at that. Trying to decide if I want to finish it.

Again I cannot tell if its beech stock or not. However both shoot extremely well. Just want something to work on now that winter is setting in.

valad, check this out, will tell you everything you want to know about refinishing your beechwood 788.

http://www.ncgunowners.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8165

Boyd's offers some great drop in stocks for the 788.