Post-64 Winchester receivers are infamous for their not taking bluing, the metal alloy was designed exclusively for workability, and apparently it was cheaper in the long run than 4140 forgings. There are several options for "rebluing": black chrome plating (sometimes looks kinda purplish), black nickel plating (kinda silvery grey, not real dark black, but looks nice), iron plating followed by bluing (gets tedious finding someone who can do this), black oxide plating (more common, but goes on thick and is shiny), and GunKote (not as bad as it sounds, they have a color called "gun blue" that really does look like bluing).
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