Shipping a BOL stock.

[Ross5403]

This may be a dumb question but it it safe to pack and ship a gunstock finished with Boiled linseed oil? I know the rags are combustible but not sure if pack in a box with newspaper.

 

[FishDFly]

Safe to ship.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Spontaneous combustion from oily rags comes through the build-up of heat through the oxidation of the oils in them. Dried or cured oily rags present a substantially diminished danger. So long as your oily rag pile is somewhat open (and not in a closed container) the heat generated from oxidation will have a chance to dissipate. On a gun cured stock most of the oil has already oxidized (if the finish is hard) so the risk of the gun starting a fire in the box (which is pretty big anyway) is extremely low.