It's quite deep rust John
I've not decided whether to shot blast it yet or just spin it up in the lathe and try to clean it off with emory cloth.
Obviously how it cleans up will dictate the final finish, I'm drawn to an all weather finish such as Black Chrome (don't see it much now) or have it parkerised.
I've still got to decide whether to chop the barrel down to HW97 length or not but again this will depend on the state of the rifling at the muzzle.
Believe it or not the stock is a nice piece of wood and will be easy to refinish but as I have a couple of spare HW77 stocks I'll probably use one of those instead.
Whatever I do I don't think I could make it look worse than it is now.
All the best Mick