A question of taste, which really can't be argued. While I have always disliked color cased bolt actions, walking through the local Beretta Gallery is enough to make me ill. Nothing but shiny stocks and shotgun frames with gold lettering on what looks like the bumper of a 50's caddy. Give me a case hardened frame any time! Some simple scroll engraving, or not, as you like. No lions, tigers, bears, rattlesnakes or howling coyotes.