Brian Alpert

There is a young lady trying to sell her Dad's front sight/bayonet mounting jig. She wants $350. If interested, contact me and I will direct you

There is a young lady trying to sell her Dad's front sight/bayonet mounting jig. She wants $350. If interested, contact me and I will direct you

The bbl has to be set back and rechambered, This also calls for repositioning the front bbl guide (a spacer is usually needed) and re installing the front sight and bayonet lug. Occasionally one sees original JSAR of JLMG bbls which apparently failed headspace and required this modification at the factory. You can tell if they have a spacer behind the guide collar and, if you remove the front sight and bayonet lug, there are additional taper pin groves from the original mounting.

Pull the pin holding the magazine door out so that the open space between lug 1 and 3 is exposed, Place the grooved portion of the spring large side against the magazine door and push the pin back in place so it holds the spring in place. Now retract the spring loaded follower and depress the magazine door so that it holds the follower back. When you remount the magazine assembly, depress the magazine door (against resistance of the spring) and fit the assembly, lining up the receiver/magazine lugs on the left with the door under the clip slot

Don't buy anything Dror (unless they give it to you) until you talk to me! I will give you someone to contact that has most everything but the intact receiver and mag well.

June 10th and 11th I am usually in section D-3 or E-3

The difficult part for either is the magazine support assembly for the JLMG (although Joseph Scott has had some produced which are for sale) or the magazine well for the 2nd model (8mm) Dror which are only found in several pieces. Either parts set is somewhat available although the Dror is much less expensive. The JLMG look-a-like generally goes for at least $2000+ more than the 2nd model Dror when completed. You will need a JSAR receiver to modify for either one. I have done both. Come to Louisville for the next NGD show in June if you want to see them at my table.

It is a 41 JLMG look-a-like, a LMG parts set assembled on a modified JSAR receiver. What is unique about it is that whoever assembled it did not construct either a type 1 or type 2 sight base to mount the LMG rear sight correctly but modified a type 2 JSAR sight to hold it. I know of several 41 LMG look-a-likes that came out of Northern California. In fact, I bought my 1st there several years. As can be seen, the type 1 base utilizes the receiver dovetail while the type 2 is fitted and welded to the receiver after the rear of the dovetail is milled off. If anyone needs these made, I can send you the machinists drawings and specs

Good luck. These are almost impossible to find. I have a 303 DROR parts set ready to assemble but for the magazine support assembly and the all elusive magazine.

If I am not mistaken that is Capt.(later LTC) Torgerson. He was one of the original Paramarines. MMJ gave him a Daisy Mae which he carried throughout the war.

contact me. I know who has both the hammer and Dror sights <brian.alpert@louisville.edu>

Not easy. JSAR LMG and DROR lowers are relatively easy to find. The DROR vertical magazine well is difficult and is usually found in multiple pieces. It also takes some serious fitting/welding to attach it to the modified receiver.

Like this!

I visited Doc Ross a while back and he had one. Enough said!

The JSAR can be converted to accept the magazine support assembly and horizontal mags from the LMG by milling off the lugs thru which the rotary mag is pinned to the receiver. This is part of the process of modifying a JSAR receiver to accept a LMG parts set when building a LMG look-a-like in semi auto. Obviously, once these lugs are ground off, the rotary magazine can no longer be used.

here is the data on JSAR #5538: Transferred from Cranston Arms 2/13/42 Stock #2 Bbl #5861E Hammer block #6708 Hammer #8021 BOLT # X (That is what is listed in the log) Locking cam #6382 Firing pin #A1439 Extractor #6130 Magazine #A1858 Transferred to NPC 2/16/42

I will have 2 tables at the NGD Show in Louisville this weekend. Several JSARs of all grades and both Johnson and Dror LMG look-a-likes. Stop by and talk Johnsons.

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It's still available!

Not much of a show as far as sales were concerned but did a lot of talking and educating. Think I have a JSAR and look-a-like sold in the next few weeks. Attached are pictures of the table. Note the WW 2 USMC Unertl Sniper scope with micarta tube I found at the Show of Shows last weekend.

The slick Winfield sporter with the gold accents is not a Winfield but put together by a custom gunsmith in Chicago. Remember several years ago the gold accented custom sporter with highly carved stock on Gunbroker? It ran for a around 18 months, slowly coming down from a "buy it now" of $5000. The stock had been damaged and professionally restored but was not guaranteed to not break at the wrist repair. An extra sporter stock was included. I finally contacted the seller and got it for $2000. I later replaced the repaired highly carved stock with a high end checkered Winfield Monte Carlo which I got off Ebay for a song and changed out the bbl for a Winfield 270. I usually remilitarize sporters but this was too pretty. At any rate, it has been on my table for over 3 years @$3100 without so much as a nibble. Everyone remarks what a tragedy it was to do this to a Johnson. They were not around in the 50's when nobody wanted military rifles and custom gunsmiths did conversions .

I have plenty since I deal in 41 LMG look-a-likes. Numrich has several hundred which can be picked up well under $40 each if you cut a deal with them. They always show up with a pile of them at the Knob Creek MG Shoot and they list them in their catalogue at $41.25.