Mine are just plain black, but I'm telling ya, it's just awesome. The first one I sent him was my old Rem 788. The 788 was basically just a truck gun, but it is a tack driver. The blueing was thin, always getting surface rust, the bolt was loose as a 2 dollar whore on nickle night and wouldn't close on its own if you pointed the barrel at the floor. It came back, just beautiful and the bolt now closes on its own tilting it about 30 degrees. Besides the protection, not having to break out solvents and brushes to clean stuff is great! All the powder residue just wipes off with a rag. You obviously have to clean the bore, but thats it. A buddy was moose hunting this past September and was standing on a piece of over bank on a river. It gave way and in he went with his rifle. He just ran a couple patches through the barrel and that was it. His buddies in camp were looking at him like he was crazy, telling him his gun is gonna rust and he better tear it down. Nope, don't have to do anything more than I did. I believe they were making plans to send theirs down to get done. I know I'm a new member on this forum and I hope people don't think I'm trying to push this on anyone. I have been talking with Lee now for about 3 years and continue to send him my guns one at a time. Really like the thought of not having to worry about the rain, snow, mud etc...I take the Beretta on the boat when we go to Valdez every fall for the Silver run and the salt will tear up a finish pretty quick, not to mention it's usually raining the whole week. Just an awesome product.