Has anyone made or refinished an old wooden gun stock?

I'm carving some new furniture for my old youth .22 Hornet, I've passed down to my son. Just wanting some recommendations on a good quality finish for the wood that can take a beating. I would prefer to keep it a little more lightly colored, but the wood isn't super figured so not a huge deal. Just want more natural than the very red tones on a lot of older guns.

Depends on what you want - gloss, semi-gloss, dull?

Can go from staining of your choice and a boiled linseed oil finish up to a high gloss urethane.

Last one I did I sanded all of the old finish off, re-stained with Minwax Red Oak (2-3 coats IIRC), then a coat of semi-gloss urethane topped by a coat of gloss urethane. That was for a coach style shotgun though, and it was pretty much what I wanted out of it.

Birchwood Casey makes a pretty simple gunstock refinish kit that gives really good results. It gives a hand rubbed oil finish look to the stock that looks very traditional to stocks made in the early 1900's.
Just your preference of how glossy you want it if you want to use urethane and not a hand rubbed oil finish look.

I've used bees wax on some pistol grps and liked it