Yes, the flats are brushed, not polished. The blue is perfect, no marks at all.
It does still have the wide trigger. Look at the bottom picture. See how there is only about 1/64 of an inch of the trigger guard visible beluw the trigger? I love those wide triggers. If it didn't cost about $200 to have the frame cut to allow the Gold Cup style trigger to be installed, both of my Springfield Stainless models would have such triggers.
Thanks for all the comments. I may be putting this up for sale before too long to finance a varmint/sniper style .308 Rifle purchase.