Mine looked kinda brown. I didn't take a before pic,but i did what Big ern talked about. Course I couldnt leave well enough alone,so I disassembled it,fixed the hard trigger pull,and polished the reciever,done a little crown fixing on the barrel tube and added tape bushings inside the barrel shroud. Looks and works really good now. Trigger breaks clean,light pull,was really easy once you have it where you can see whats going on in there. Thanks for the help y'all...