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February 28th, 2021, 01:02 PM #1
M1941 Johnson rifle
I see your looking at my Johnson ...is what the dealer who had it displayed said to me ....
Saw one of these at the MOAKS show yesterday , only ever read about them , 6,500 bucks .
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/M1941_Johnson_rifle
FWIW ....I like Wendy*s chili tooFortuna audaces iuvat
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February 28th, 2021, 01:39 PM #2
Re: M1941 Johnson rifle
Don't think I've ever seen one in real life.
They look SO heavy.
I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
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February 28th, 2021, 02:08 PM #3
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At 6500 dollars I wasn*t going to ask to fondle it ...for fear of damaging .
I*ve held a BAR at ww2 weekend.... you need the 20 lbs to absorb the full auto 30-06Fortuna audaces iuvat
"Who is John Galt?"
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February 28th, 2021, 02:18 PM #4
Re: M1941 Johnson rifle
Back in the late 50's Montgomery Ward sold them for $39.95. Wish that I had bought all that they had.
Courage is being scared to death--but saddling up any way. John Wayne
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February 28th, 2021, 03:35 PM #5Grand Member
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Re: M1941 Johnson rifle
I don't think the Johnson rifle was ever going to make it up against the M1 Garand, however the Johnson light machine gun derived from the rifle was better than the BAR and should have been more widely adopted.
As I recall from looking at one, the bolt looks very similar to an AR bolt.
The Marines were pretty happy with their Johnson rifles early in the war.
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February 28th, 2021, 03:50 PM #6
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February 28th, 2021, 08:37 PM #7Super Member
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February 28th, 2021, 09:38 PM #8
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The guys I help out at Morgantown/Oaks/Allentown have a Johnson rifle for sale. We joke that we charge customers $10 for making jokes and $5 for holding the rifle.
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March 1st, 2021, 09:49 AM #9
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I always see the same one at every gun show. I feel like it should have an odometer on it.
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March 1st, 2021, 03:49 PM #10
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I saw a Johnson rifle at a gun shop near Hattiesburg, MS back in 2006 for a great price but someone had tried to sporterize it and since I knew little regarding these rifles I had no idea what it would cost, if possible, to restore it to it's original configuration so I passed. When I was in my teens back in the 70's-80's I remember Woolworth's having loads of surplus rifles for less than 60 bucks but I thought they were just junk rifles so I didn't buy anything. If I knew then what I know now I would have bought every single one of them and been sitting on a nice retirement nest egg right now.
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