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Before you start to refinish the stock, I would make sure that you can get it working and get a clip for it.
Feeding them one at a time into the tube will probably work if you want to test fire it. Should work fine if everything is in working order.
On the topic of refinishing the stock. Take a wood stripper like Citristrip to it. Will strip it down to bare wood with a few coats. Handle scratches and dings differently. To take care of dints and dings in the wood, take an iron, put a tee shirt between the wood and the iron and steam the wood. It will raise the wood and get rid of dints and such. Sand stock with finer and finer sandpaper.
The staining process is something you can figure out. Consider getting some Tru-Oil to finish the stock, apply a few coats of it. Will produce a high gloss finish. Some fine steel wool will make it a more subdued satin finish.
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