Nice Remington M1903 1st Variation Rifle

[C Dexter]

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

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[tsmgguy]

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

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

Thanks, CD

Your rifle would have been mostly parked, originally. Scroll down the page in the link below to see some nice shots of unaltered Remington M1903s.

Nice Remington M1903 First Variation Rifle

[tsmgguy]

L-o-n-g article about the "red star" rifles, and Remington M1903 production in general.

Remington Society of America - ...

[John Beard]

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

Your description indicates that you perhaps have a CMP Greek rifle. The original finish on the barrel and receiver was olive-grey parkerizing. The Greeks, however, often stripped the parkerizing from the rifles and hot-dip blued them. Perhaps that's what you have.

Hope this helps.

J.B.