Hey Guys,
recently I was looking at the A3's original configuration and finish on Remingtons A3......

There's a deceased fella who posted pics of his A3. www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=19134

And I found a few pics of my own, along with an old Army training film on you tube with GI's shooting A3's. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzXG7MYX1c

In the you tube vid you can see the difference in finish and also in the other pics, besides on Vi-shooter page with John Beard.

Recently I had my A3 redone to be this way.

My question is this........ Why did Remington only parkerize the barrel/front sight post and receiver and the rest of the parts were blued?

Guess the best answer to me is Remington was/is a sporting manufacture and they were set up with bluing already and had to set up parkerizing.....

Another question that might help is which process is cheaper to do? Parking or bluing?