[blackcote]

I know what you mean about many varied materials in fire arms. Winchester recievers seem to give a fair amout of trouble coming out with a redish tint or an uneven finish... sort of spotty looking. Anyway No gloss finishing it's sort of matte finish that looks dark grey. a post treatment of oil really seams to bring out the black. and give it a nice sheen but certainly not glossy to match the buffed barrels. The problem is two fold I think. It's the anodize process that takes away from the gloss as your building a bunch of tiny holes on the part for dye absorbtion and protection. Then on top of that your trying to do it on cast which is notoriously prone to dye problems. If we had a way to measure pore size we could adjust parameters to the process to get results like we do from good aluminum. But I suspect it would still be somewhat limited to the material properties of the cast.