What color? I didn't have one, but my cousins each had one, courtesy of their grandfather (My great uncle). Theirs were a greenish color, which was the least common variety. Brown was most common, at least a first, then black. I liked the greenish best. I also put a hole through the flashing and the screen, on one of their upstairs windows, because one of them had left the scoped one with a round in the chamber, and I didn't check as I should have. Might have put a dent in the weather vane on the barn too. :)