Steve,
There's another element as well, at least from my perspective. There's quite a few quality guns you probably can shoot and unless you are clumsey or abusive, it's frankly harder to tell light usage. On that mini, for instance, while I really did plan to shoot it but never got around to it, due to kids sports, lots of BR matches, loading- shooting other guns, one of the main reasons was all that light virbant case coloring that was gonna disappear pretty quick and probably wipe a lot of value away.