I agree, the finish on WA guns is very nice, but I doubt if it is metal.
I mean.. If all else fails; lick it when it's -40 degrees out. There's a surefire way to test if it's metal or not
But what I was talking about the rotating barrel system... If you look at the shell ejecting port and the front barrel, when you pull back on the slide the front barrel should actually rotate. If my springer does it, so should yours! (And the real steel version does too)