To the untrained eye, indeed. I, for one, am not embarrassed to admit that I have absolutely no training and very little experience in identifying real CC from a torch job. Usually I look at these threads and say to myself "Huh, I guess it's a good thing I didn't get that gun, or one like it".
With this gun, though, even my untrained eye can see EXACTLY where the torch was applied to the metal. It's almost as if Professional Gunsmith Ed Landers has lost interest in even TRYING to make his torch jobs look "realistic". Or maybe they're just going through his smithy so fast he doesn't have the time to heat the entire receiver, just selected parts of it!
When even I can tell it's a torch job, it must be really, really bad...
