Reddit reviews Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil Stock Finishing Kit

Girlfriend asleep and brass in the tumbler so a wall of text lies below. sorry.

A free floated stock will help accuracy. It keeps the barrel free of variable influences causing inconsistencies in pressure from the stock. Wood can sweel or shrink, a synthetic won't. So free floating should be easier with synthetic. Best accuracy will come with connsistency, a bedded synthetic stock will help with that. Not to say that wood stocks cant be a part of accurate rifles, but better options exist.

If I were to replace those sights, I would replace the rings. i don't know much about those, rings are not a place to cheap out. i would go with tps or seekins. Torqued appropriately, either would provide a solid setup. While you are at it, I would add a one piece rail with at least 20 MOA. This is nice because if you scope has 60 minutes of travel and your zero is in the middle, you really only have 30 minutes up and 30 down. If you have adjust it up twenty minutes you now have 50 up and ten down from your zero. and since your zero is likely fairly close, having the extra adjustment up would be nice for further shots. (just in case the minutes thing is over your head, here are a couple videos. Minutes and mils)

With regard to reloading equipment, that difficult, kinda depends on what he has. You would at least need the dies and the components (brass, powder, primers and bullets). Usually pistol rounds are loaded on a press with multiple station happening at the same time where rifle cartridges are done with a press with only one working part. You can make your rounds on a progressive/multiple stage press but generally a single stage is preferred for more consistent loads. Check what he has and if he doesn't know how to reload rifle cartridges, pm me or post back here and we can point you in the right direction.

For bolt faces, there are three standard bolt faces in centerfire cartridges, small - .384 for cartridges like 223, 300 aac/blk, medium/regular/normal ( i don't know the official name) - .470 for cartridges such as the 308, 243 in short action and 30-06, 270 in long and magnum - .540 for magnum cartridges which are usually named short magnum for short action based magnum cartridges and simply magnum for long action based magnum cartridges. it has to do with the diameter of the head of the cartridge which interfaces with the bolt.

Unlike action lengths you bolt face has to match your cartridge. For instance, you could chamber a long action with a short action caliberand vice versa but it is less than desirable. You cannot however shoot a normal style cartridge with a magnum style bolt face. You can however change the bolt face, quick google says eabco will do it for 70 bucks.

To answer your original question, given your budget concerns, I would switch the bolt face and barrel. When new income comes around, buy a scope, base and rings(http://swfa.com/TPS-Tactical-Scope-30mm-Rings-P41902.aspx). By that time you have plenty of time to research stocks. In the meantime I would throw a buttplate on your stock. Strip it with citristrip and refinish it and try your hand at freefloating the barrel since you arent attached to it, if you screw it up no problem. If you want to get adventurous you can even attempt bedding the stock

Note if you have more money to spend the places to spend it are the barrel and the glass. Shilen and Criterion are both amazing barrels that make savage prefits. I don't know the status of that trigger but there may come a time to replace it with something like a timney, but that should come after the basics. with all these parts make sure you call these places and do your own homework to match your budget and your action with the parts before you buy them.

Nice, I love my WASR. Slap a muzzle brake on it and take this to that wood.