To refinish, or not to refinish that’s the question? I went through this with the military surplus guns, funny the guy who is a guru on the surplus guns said not to touch them all his guns had the same color stain and finish. Lol.

I purchased three pre numbered guns k series that was called freckling by the P.O. on The finish. The orange slight freckling turned out to be dried oil. All three are 99.99% condition after cleaning them.

I won’t refinish for now, I have redone rifle stocks that I plan hunting with. I learned how to steam the wooden stocks to remove some of the marked in the wood. But I do leave some history marks on the wood. Then it’s 8 to 10 coats of tung oil to preserve the wood. When done right you can’t tell they have been redone.