A hair dryer or heat gun will work also if you don't feel like messing with the oven method. Basically anyway you can warm the stock up will work. In my impatience I've laid them on an old towel in the car and let the heater run full blast!Thanks guys for the replies. I think what I will do is use Milsurp's trash can oven method to sweat out what cosmoline I can and then use the lemon oil as AKguy to clean the dirt and grime out of it. At that point I might just use the linseed oil and call it good. It is after all a used military surplus rifle. It never was a "pretty rifle"..........