My "unpopular" or "unconventional" opinion #2 (at least for this thread):
Deeply blued rifles with fancy, rich walnut (or any other type of wood) stocks don’t do anything for me. My custom .308 Norma Mag is bead-blasted stainless with a granite-grey synthetic stock because I
ordered it that way. And the new .257 Weatherby Mag I’ve decided I’d like to have before deer season gets here this year will be Cerekoted with a synthetic stock - or I won’t have it.
I’m pretty much the same way about shotguns and handguns. Although, I’d kinda like to own a chrome 1911 .38 Super - just because. I wouldn’t even mind if it was engraved, as long as the engraving was tasteful. Of course
I’d decide what “tasteful” means.