I wanted to add the 4 action pics and seem to have added them all again. I guess I have added redundance to my post. The ramrod is made of steel so gew8805how do I brown this to match. The barrel is definitely a good brown color and what I thought was rust (and some was) under the wood cleaned up nicely with gun oil. I saw this very type rifle on an auction site (a link from TRS) with a sight and ramrod that was as ordered, and yes it did look odd. The sight not so but defintely the ramrod.