Brian,
I had an excellent Remington VH that had lots of case colors. However, one of the breech balls on the receiver had a severe case of road rash where it appeared to me it had met pavement . I had Thierry Duquet put all of the metal back in place he could, and the reshape it and recut the zig-zag border. Now I had a perfect receiver with one shiny spot. I used a pencil butane torch, heated it only slightly at the bare spot, applied a little bluing with a cotton swab, and used a very fine Scotchbrite pad to slowly match the rest. One could not tell it had ever been touched and still cannot until this day. If the receiver was a brown patina instead of gray I would use browning on it as that instantly turns brown and can be worked down with a Scotchbrite pad. The worst you can do is get back to square one where you started.
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