What I did to the 1970 one I found was send it to fords and made my on personal 27 out of it with a master blue and added a extra fancy john culnia set of french walnut grips. yes, you collectors laugh, its not original, but its a beauty and I love to shoot it and no, it has no collector value, but you should see people oogle and ouggle when I bring it out for a few rounds on the steel plates. Fits in with all those rifles I have with nice walnut and hand checkering stocks and deep blue bluing job.