I started using Easy Off for stripping stocks and removing oil back in the '80's. I was in high school and I think I got the tip from Guns and Ammo. It is very effective for stripping finishes such as those found on Brownings or Remingtons. It does a good job at removing oil from stocks but I no longer use it for that purpose. For a heavily oil soaked stock, you have to dump a lot of lye and water on the wood to get it clean. You will have a bigger mess to clean up, i.e. whiskered and swelled wood at inletting.
I keep a can in the shop for quick stripping, but soak stocks in a solvent for those that are heavily oil soaked.
Please be careful if you use Easy Off or any other spray stripper. When I was 15 I got Easy Off in my left eye while cleaning an oven. It ate 7 holes in my cornea and was incredibly painful. Those of you who know me know what I have been through in life and know that when I say something is painful, it is PAINFUL! But my eye healed up fine and I was back to my 20/15 vision in a few weeks. I got battery acid in my right eye 3 years later and that was a cake walk compared to the lye.
