All of this gun painting is purely cosmetic - or should be. When hunting waterfowl, the gun should never be visible until you mount it to shoot; even a shiny chrome plated gun should be invisible to birds if you're properly blinded up. But of course, we've all seen yahoos waving their gun barrels around so that they're visible from a quarter mile off - even if the birds are as myopic as I am.

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