Dennis,
Oil soaked wood is usually obvious and easily identified by being black. It is spongy and removing the oil from it will restore the fiber. You almost always have to pull the wood off the gun to determine this as some stocks are not that oil soaked from outside appearance but are from the inside from 100 years of oil run through the action and into the wood from being stored butt down as most people store them.
But what you will find more times than you would believe is that the wood is cracked inside without any visible signs outside. So to be safe, have the wood removed and inspected, and once the oil is removed and any cracks repaired I shoot anything I want in the fluid steel barrels if I need it, but most of the time shoot light reloaded stuff so nothing will break. At targets it is a 24 gram load (about 7/8 oz) in 12 ga that only have 3500 psi or 1 ounce at 6500 psi. But at turkeys and geese it's 1.25 oz in 12 and 1.5 oz in 10 and 1 oz in 16 and 7/8 oz in 20 at doves, but low pressure.
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