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I am doing a little refinish on my mosin nagant 91/30, I cleaned off the varnsh with acetone and it came right off then I washed it with some spray nine. and let it air dry
the stock came real clean but the color is faded. I want to try and get back close to the same orange colour that it was but cleaner looking.

what stain and oil combination has anyone done to get it back?

I was thinking of an oil based stain that is close and BLO on top.

and will the stain darken with the BLO
 
A reddish stain with shellac is what they used. Acetone or alcohol will take shellac easily off which is what you have done. BLO won't darken it, but stains will or at least a dark granite shellac. You could always try MiniWax stain/varnish combo which I've used for light coloured wood.
 
Try Krylon desert orange spray paint and cover it with it with semi gloss varathane. It'll look great. Make sure to sand it down real good first.
 
You could get some minwax poly stain 2 in one from canadian tire...make sure to get that really ugly cedar colour. Oh, and get 5 gallons...in order to match the original finish, you'll want to fully submerse the stock, then let it hang to drip/air dry. :)

Kidding aside, i've seen some really nice mosins that were stripped and oil finished, and left blonde. If your stock is pretty clean, this could work. If there's dirt/oil/black grungy stuff, then a little coloured stain might help to cover/hide it.
 
The hardwood of the non laminated Mosins is some non descript stuff that apprently grows everywhere in Russia. Which is why they use it. But it's not the best wood for nice looking finishes. It tends to be blotchy. It also doesn't have the sort of pores to take a regular style of stain very well. But if you want to try it I'd go with some red mahogany stain to try to give the wood the sort of colour it had originally. Or go with something else if you would rather.

If you go to the stores that have the stain on woods of various types sample board look at the various stains on the lighter woods such as pine, maple and beech to get an idea of what they would look like on the Mosin wood.

The BLO or tung oil will slightly darken the stain but not by much at all. What you see is pretty much what you get. What the oil will try to do is lift some of the stain away. You MUST give the stain a good week to ten days to dry and cure before applying the first coat of BLO or tung oil. Otherwise you'll lift a quarter to third of the stain you left on after rubbing down the stain application.
 
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