Just a quick update.

Stripped the rifle down, disassembled the trigger, bolt, everything. Wanted to remove the barrel from the action but my wrench doesn't fit so I just left it.

After cleaning everything up real well I used a vinegar bath to strip off the old bluing. If you've never tried this before it is amazing. Plain old vinegar works perfectly for removing bluing, just put the parts in a plasic tub, pour in the vinegar, let it sit for a few minutes and take them out. The bluing is completly removed, no pitting or caustic chemicals to clean up. Just rinse the parts off and put a little gun oil on them until you re-blue.

The stock is done, going to re-blue in the next week or two and put it back together.

One question- what would be a good replacement rear sight?