When I say I restored it I actually was working I a gunsmith shop as a service writer. The guys guided me in bead blasting it and repolishing it before rebluing in hot tanks. Had to do it twice as the old nickel steel is temperature sensitive to the bluing process.

Refinished the wood also. Gave it seven coats of Winchester Red oil. The stock still had the scratches in it that dad put there crossing barbed wire fences.