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?