Beautiful rifle. I have a barreled receiver and front lug that is very similar to this one (also 10-41) but mine is #2075 in production.

Mine, however, has all original blued finish. Even though it was 1941, can I assume correctly that his rifle went through an arsenal rebuild at some point and was parkerized? Otherwise, I have no idea why mine would be original blued.

I guess this is a long way of asking if the original Remington 03s were blued or Parkerized?

Thanks, CD