M1941 ?

[TrenchCrazy]

I have a excellent M1941 Johnson rifle. My only ? is the rotary magazine body assembly is blued. The rest of the rifle is original park. Is this original or replaced? thanks

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[TrenchCrazy]

[BadBob]

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[Jim K]

Hi, BadBob,

How about reducing the size of your pictures for us poor folks on dial up lines? They take forever to down load. We would appreciate cropping them to keep the essential part and also reducing the pixel count (which reduces the byte count).

Jim

[BadBob]

Not my Pix Jim. Trench Crazy posted them. I can't do a thing about them.

[BarryinIN]

That rifle looks NICE.

[TrenchCrazy]

After reading collecter notes in Mr. Canfields Johnson book, pg.250, he says "Some rifles with blued rotary magazines have been noted which indicates that component has been refinished". I hung my head down thinking I have refinished parts on my original rifle.
So I had to pull the old Johnson out of the safe for a closer look. Looking closer at the rotary mag it was more black than blue. Closer still it looked coated or painted black? It is nether blued or parkerized. Where it was chipping off it looked parkerized underneath.


So that got me looking for another example. I could not find one in Mr. Canfields book. I started looking through all my old Rock Island aucyion co. cataloges, and 1 out of nine I found looks the same. What do you guys think?

[Mike Josephic]

In my opinion, the mag should be parkerized. I have an original, mint
Johnson that still had some cosmoline in it when I bought it years ago and that's how it was.