Nick in Browning finish

southwest maddog

southwest maddog

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I have a small fresh nick in the stock of my BLR. A small patch of bare wood is showing about the size of a BB. Does anyone have any ideas for a quick fix / hide for this? This gun is a field piece, not a safe queen, but I would like to make this nick less obvious.

Thanks, Maddog
 
Unfortunately it is bare unfinished wood at the nick site. Here is the whole story. I just bought the gun today and showed it to a friend. He took out the magazine while holding the rifle in his lap. He fumbled the mag and dropped it, hitting the underside of the stock. The sharp edge of the mag took out a little piece of the gloss finish and the stained wood. So I have a little white mark on my dark brown stock.
 
The first nick is always the hardest. But if your going to keep it and use it your going to get a lot more.
 
Try rubbing a dab of hoppes into the wound, it should darken the exposed wood a bit.

I still remember how each and every nick got on my BLR, it never gets easy ;)
I fell out of a treestand a few years ago and landed square on my back, cradling the rifle on top of me like a newborn...
 
Take the damn "gloss" finish off and rub in oil( BLO or Tung)the nick can be steamed out and will dissapear.
I remember being on a watch and seeing this flash of light off and on , turned out to be a fellow hunter walking toward me with his spanking new BLR glossy finish! Glossy finishes are for people who don't hunt and love to display their firearms JITC
 
"...nick can be steamed out..." Not if said 'nick' is a cut in the wood. Steaming will raise a dent, but won't do anything to repair cut wood fibres.
A bit of stain and seal it with two part epoxy glue. Epoxy glue dries clear and it's hard.
 
I was able to match the Browning gloss finish on a A-5 stock so the repair was invisible if you didn't know that it was done. I feathered the factory finish with 600 grit wet or dry and applied varathane with a Q-tip and blended with 800 and 1000 grit wet or dry paper. I repeated this process 7 or 8 times to build and blend the finish with the factory finish. It was alot of work but well worth the effort.
 
Browning stock fix

Years ago,I was carrying in too many rifles into the house after a range session. My Browning BBR fell out of its case onto the cement patio. Scope was buggered up and the stock got badly scratched. Took the rifle to a local guy and he fixed the marks with crazy glue. The stock looks perfect still. This was probably 15 or more years ago.
 
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