Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Protecting a wooden stock?

Problem with sealing up the barrel channel tighter than the outside of the stock is the stesses induced when the outside gets wet.

The barrel channel is NOT taking in water and expanding... But the outside IS. If it has time to expand on your hunt it will have the ability to apply force to the bottom of the barrel...

I like both sides equally coated...

I wax the wood and metal everywhere with Johnson's paste wax.
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