I've used boiled linseed on several of my older shotguns and my military service rifles, all with good results. This Tom's stuff is like a mixture of BLO, turpentine, and bees wax. Supposedly its meant to give service rifles like the Garand the "correct" looking oiled stock finish? From what I understand most model 99's originally came with an oil finish on the stock, I presume boiled linseed, correct me if I'm wrong I'm new to the forum. I'm fine with just using BLO on my rifle stocks, its always worked good and looked good, I just don't know if there's an advantage to using something with bees wax in it??
Hah, beat me! I shouldn't have gotten up midway to fetch a beer from the fridge!
Any stock, old or new, that lives with a straight oil finish should get a wax job now and then. Therein lies the only real protection it'll have from water fenestration.