They were taking care of if you like a blue/black barrel with the name almost buffed off and a receiver you can barely read the maker under the blue finnish.The potbelly stock is also covered with some kind of polyurithane. The only good thing about the one I got is the type 1 band and a nice Rock-Ola front sight. There is no way of restoring it to any GI look. I will probably just give it to one of the grandkids to lug around the desert shooting.