An "oil finish" is not made of raw linseed oil but rather "boiled linseed oil" which really means oil with chemical drying agents added so the finish will harden. It is really an "oil/varnish" finish. You are not going to create such a thing because the finish already on the wood will be just fine once you deal with it properly. 

ScotchBrite will remove bluing but don't use one that is too coarse or you'll scratch the steel. You might want to add a drop of lubricant to the steel while working on the blue. 

Go slow and first find an image on this forum or Cody and keep it in view while you work. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with your result. I'd leave off the vinegar. Don't remove any steel from the screws or distort the slots. 

The finish is just wrong for this gun, It look likes it’s brand new not a classic. So I’m thinking I can’t do much more damage experimenting on this 1894? Thinking 0000 and then a little oil on the wood? And Scotch Bright on receiver, vinegar on the screws? Just searching around internet how to remove bluing.

Thanks

Brian

But,  sometime if you will pull that old treasure out and photograph it with your usual thoroughness, give me access to the high res "negatives" and I'll make you a collage.  I just found my stash of 16×20 photo paper that is going to waste.

Zebulon said

Bert H. said

Zebulon said

Bert H. said
I am definitely in the "Or more..." category.  At last count, I have (16) shotguns, only one of which is not a Winchester (my Auto-5 Light Twenty).
Bert
  

You have an admirable lack of self restraint. 
My own balance tilts the other way: 4 Winchester and 8 Browning. But the fat lady may not have sung yet. 
  

This is embarrassing... I somehow forgot to mention the 17th shotgun I have buried in the back of one of my safes.  It is a 1902 production Ithaca Grade 2 Lewis Model 12 gauge SxS with Damascus tubes.  It was my Great Grandfather's gun, inherited by my father in the late 1950s, and I inherited it from him in 1999. 
Bert
  

Restricted to Quarters until you post at least 3 photos. The Ithaca was the American Purdey and a Grade 2 was not seen every day. 
  

Bill,

More correctly it would take pulling my "Liberty card". GRANDPA'S NAVY: Liberty cards, leave passes and meal tickets (grandpasnavy.blogspot.com)

Pictures will have to wait for awhile... I am currently in Oregon (Astoria area) tending to busy work & chores at the homestead, and I do not have any pictures of that old gun (never took any of it).  Due to its age and construction, it sits in the very back corner of my older gun safe (in a protective gun sock).  It has not seen the light of day in at least 20-years now. 

While I have never actually measured it, I believe that it has short 2-5/8" chambers.  Couple with the old Damascus barrels, I decided long ago that I most likely would not ever try shooting it.  I do know that my dad hunted grouse & pheasant with it in the mid to late 1940s.  He had it on loan from his grandpa when he was still in high-school in Gresham Oregon.

Bert

Bert H. said

Zebulon said

Bert H. said
I am definitely in the "Or more..." category.  At last count, I have (16) shotguns, only one of which is not a Winchester (my Auto-5 Light Twenty).
Bert
  

You have an admirable lack of self restraint. 
My own balance tilts the other way: 4 Winchester and 8 Browning. But the fat lady may not have sung yet. 
  

This is embarrassing... I somehow forgot to mention the 17th shotgun I have buried in the back of one of my safes.  It is a 1902 production Ithaca Grade 2 Lewis Model 12 gauge SxS with Damascus tubes.  It was my Great Grandfather's gun, inherited by my father in the late 1950s, and I inherited it from him in 1999. 
Bert
  

Restricted to Quarters until you post at least 3 photos. The Ithaca was the American Purdey and a Grade 2 was not seen every day. 

Zebulon said

Bert H. said
I am definitely in the "Or more..." category.  At last count, I have (16) shotguns, only one of which is not a Winchester (my Auto-5 Light Twenty).
Bert
  

You have an admirable lack of self restraint. 
My own balance tilts the other way: 4 Winchester and 8 Browning. But the fat lady may not have sung yet. 
  

This is embarrassing... I somehow forgot to mention the 17th shotgun I have buried in the back of one of my safes.  It is a 1902 production Ithaca Grade 2 Lewis Model 12 gauge SxS with Damascus tubes.  It was my Great Grandfather's gun, inherited by my father in the late 1950s, and I inherited it from him in 1999. 

Bert

Bert H. said
I am definitely in the "Or more..." category.  At last count, I have (16) shotguns, only one of which is not a Winchester (my Auto-5 Light Twenty).
Bert
  

Not sure how many shotguns I have (pretty sure it's less than 16!) but I'm also pretty sure I have room for one more...or a two-barrel set. Most are Browning Citori's or post-64 social equipment WINO's (Winchester In Name Only) so there is room for improvement. 

Mike

Zebulon said

Bert H. said

Zebulon said
In Texas, where everything is bigger, a measured 300 yards magically becomes 600 yards.  
I am not one to question anyone's shooting skills but I know from the experience of using a laser rangefinder to set up target frames for my fellow hunters on a previous West Texas lease, that even our most experienced members questioned the accuracy of my rangefinder when seeing just what a target at 300 yards really looks like. 
The fascination with the inherent accuracy of game (not varmint) rifles has increased inversely with decreased game hunting opportunities. Perhaps that is not a cause and effect relationship but I think it is. 
The late Jack O'Connor addressed the needed accuracy of big game (deer and larger) rifles more than once in print. He once averaged the benchrested accuracy of his various rifles - those he used Worldwide - made up by the best custom gunmakers in America. The average was around 1.5 MOA, varying between 1.25 to 1.75.  He had another time remarked that 2 MOA was sufficient for sheep hunting.  This from probably the most experienced and successful sheep hunter who has ever lived. 
The late Col. Charles Askins, Jr., another big game hunter of rare experience, late in life wrote bluntly (as he was so inclined) that 300 yards was "just one hell of a long way" to be shooting at an unwounded game animal. 
A good test for suitability of rifle and hunter, for anyone with access to vast open spaces, is to set up an 8" pie plate cover and shoot at it from seated or prone, sling allowed but unrested.  I suspect the measured successful distances would shrink significantly for most hunters.  
I'm all for long range shooting as long as the target doesn't bleed. 
  

This was my latest range result (just last week), shooting my Remington Model 700 BDL Heavy Varmint rifle chambered for 222 Rem Mag.
My best load was 24.2 grains of IMR 4198 under a 40 grain Hornady V-max bullet, velocity 3,790 fps.  I have the rifle sighted for 250-yds, allowing me to put the cross hairs on the "X" out to 300-yds.  I laddered my loads from 23.5 grains up to 24.2
I managed a 5-shot group of .67" with the 24.2 grain load and I am happy with it.
  

You have one of most accurate full production varmint rifles ever made - the 700V - in one of the best all-around factory varmint cartridges ever offered. Period. It will do 95% of everything a varmint rig needs to do,  without the barrel wear of a 22-250 or a Swift. A late good friend of mine had one - an early one with impressed checkering -- and it was death on prairie dogs at 300 yards and well beyond, given reasonable wind conditions.  Remington in the Sixties really was at the top of its game. Their gun and ammunition design engineers were avid benchrest shooters and it showed. 
  

Bill, I second that. I have a 700V in 7mm-08. All I ever did to it was glass bed the action.  I cleaned up at a local shooting club in Hunter Benchrest matches for several seasons.  Working up test loads I commonly could group 5 shots in 0.6 inches or less with a variety of bullets and powder. Settled on Sierra Match King 168g HPBT Match bullets and IMR4320.

A little overkill for varmint shooting, but also did OK in Rifle Silhouette.  Turns out I wasn't nearly as good off hand as I was from a bench rest.

P

Bert H. said

Zebulon said
In Texas, where everything is bigger, a measured 300 yards magically becomes 600 yards.  
I am not one to question anyone's shooting skills but I know from the experience of using a laser rangefinder to set up target frames for my fellow hunters on a previous West Texas lease, that even our most experienced members questioned the accuracy of my rangefinder when seeing just what a target at 300 yards really looks like. 
The fascination with the inherent accuracy of game (not varmint) rifles has increased inversely with decreased game hunting opportunities. Perhaps that is not a cause and effect relationship but I think it is. 
The late Jack O'Connor addressed the needed accuracy of big game (deer and larger) rifles more than once in print. He once averaged the benchrested accuracy of his various rifles - those he used Worldwide - made up by the best custom gunmakers in America. The average was around 1.5 MOA, varying between 1.25 to 1.75.  He had another time remarked that 2 MOA was sufficient for sheep hunting.  This from probably the most experienced and successful sheep hunter who has ever lived. 
The late Col. Charles Askins, Jr., another big game hunter of rare experience, late in life wrote bluntly (as he was so inclined) that 300 yards was "just one hell of a long way" to be shooting at an unwounded game animal. 
A good test for suitability of rifle and hunter, for anyone with access to vast open spaces, is to set up an 8" pie plate cover and shoot at it from seated or prone, sling allowed but unrested.  I suspect the measured successful distances would shrink significantly for most hunters.  
I'm all for long range shooting as long as the target doesn't bleed. 
  

This was my latest range result (just last week), shooting my Remington Model 700 BDL Heavy Varmint rifle chambered for 222 Rem Mag.

My best load was 24.2 grains of IMR 4198 under a 40 grain Hornady V-max bullet, velocity 3,790 fps.  I have the rifle sighted for 250-yds, allowing me to put the cross hairs on the "X" out to 300-yds.  I laddered my loads from 23.5 grains up to 24.2
I managed a 5-shot group of .67" with the 24.2 grain load and I am happy with it.

You have one of most accurate full production varmint rifles ever made - the 700V - in one of the best all-around factory varmint cartridges ever offered. Period. It will do 95% of everything a varmint rig needs to do,  without the barrel wear of a 22-250 or a Swift. A late good friend of mine had one - an early one with impressed checkering -- and it was death on prairie dogs at 300 yards and well beyond, given reasonable wind conditions.  Remington in the Sixties really was at the top of its game. Their gun and ammunition design engineers were avid benchrest shooters and it showed. 

Zebulon said
In Texas, where everything is bigger, a measured 300 yards magically becomes 600 yards.  
I am not one to question anyone's shooting skills but I know from the experience of using a laser rangefinder to set up target frames for my fellow hunters on a previous West Texas lease, that even our most experienced members questioned the accuracy of my rangefinder when seeing just what a target at 300 yards really looks like. 
The fascination with the inherent accuracy of game (not varmint) rifles has increased inversely with decreased game hunting opportunities. Perhaps that is not a cause and effect relationship but I think it is. 
The late Jack O'Connor addressed the needed accuracy of big game (deer and larger) rifles more than once in print. He once averaged the benchrested accuracy of his various rifles - those he used Worldwide - made up by the best custom gunmakers in America. The average was around 1.5 MOA, varying between 1.25 to 1.75.  He had another time remarked that 2 MOA was sufficient for sheep hunting.  This from probably the most experienced and successful sheep hunter who has ever lived. 
The late Col. Charles Askins, Jr., another big game hunter of rare experience, late in life wrote bluntly (as he was so inclined) that 300 yards was "just one hell of a long way" to be shooting at an unwounded game animal. 
A good test for suitability of rifle and hunter, for anyone with access to vast open spaces, is to set up an 8" pie plate cover and shoot at it from seated or prone, sling allowed but unrested.  I suspect the measured successful distances would shrink significantly for most hunters.  
I'm all for long range shooting as long as the target doesn't bleed. 
  

This was my latest range result (just last week), shooting my Remington Model 700 BDL Heavy Varmint rifle chambered for 222 Rem Mag.

My best load was 24.2 grains of IMR 4198 under a 40 grain Hornady V-max bullet, velocity 3,790 fps.  I have the rifle sighted for 250-yds, allowing me to put the cross hairs on the "X" out to 300-yds.  I laddered my loads from 23.5 grains up to 24.2

I managed a 5-shot group of .67" with the 24.2 grain load and I am happy with it.