Originally Posted By: tudurgs
Beautiful gun! I recently posted this question on another site: Do colors fade on an unmolested gun? Have any of us really seen a gun as it left the factory, or have we seen untouched guns decades later?


Remove the forend from many a silver-receiver gun and the iron will have brilliant case colors that have rarely been touched or seen sunlight over the decades. Are they exactly the same as the day they left the factory? Who can say....but what could be closer?