Look carefully at this picture and let me know which of these guns has been ruined.
Fine looking rifles, all of them. None are ruined. I'm not in the market for embellished or the higher end M99/1899 rifles, so there is nothing that you can do to your rifles that would impact me. I'm glad for you that you can enjoy your rifles.
As per the original post question, some collectors think that permanently changing a feature on higher-end, "collectible" rifles just to make them "look better" detracts from the perceived value (buyer's value).
I'm not here to pee on anybody's parade, just callin' a spade a spade. (I'll let others on this forum, along with their friends, Geoduck and Crow Bar, pee on the electric fence.)
