Originally Posted By: PA24
The greatest harm to any case color is U.V. light...leave your gun in the sun for long periods, or in a glass doored gun cabinet, exposed to sunlight and the case colors will rapidly go bye-bye.......that's why the old guns just have the "mottled" look, still very hard...but the colors are gone...


I don't know anything about metalurgy or heat treating either one, and about all I know about doubleguns, I learned here from listening to our experts. So, not to dispute the quote above, but I thought that Dr. Gaddy had always advised that UV would NOT harm or fade case colors, and that only wear would remove them.

Did I have that wrong???...Geo