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Good. It is definitely one of mine. Incidentally, note that it has a US M2 30 cal Carbine bolt, which is round, making it slightly heavier than an M1 carbine bolt, which had material removed from the top, making it similar in appearance to an M1 Garand bolt. Both M1 and M2 bolts worked OK ,with our 5.7mm in semi-auto. I'm not positive why the M2 carbines used the heavier bolt, unless it was because the M2 Carbines could fire full automatic with selector switch and maybe they simply wanted more solid weight in the bolt. OR....they found it was cheaper not to have to mill off the extra material from the bolt, as the M2 Carbines were manufactured later. For those of you with M1, M2 (full-auto) and M1A1 (folding stock), check your stock and let us know what you find, bolt-wise. Maybe a book has the answer also.
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Good news, Joe. Glad to hear you're able to travel. Might be good to have someone with you and wheel you around if necessary. ej
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Those should work. They would be the same primers (I assume) as the .30 M1 Carbine rounds, since we start with M1 Carbine brass.
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Those are the ammunition boxes I used, but I don't recall that we stamped "soft point" on any boxes.
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Remember that my specs on primers and powder and loads are based on what we used back in the 1960's. I don't know if there are other products that are compatible or if the chemical composition of newly manufactured gunpowder might be slightly different..
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OK, Joe, thanks for the reply and good luck. I'll let you know if I hear anything. ej
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Frank, if you get into handloading, I'm assuming you already know the best load to use, but this is what we used in 1960's..... Carbine brass # 6 Primers (small rifle) Speer FMJ or Sisk soft nose 40 grain .2235 bullets 11.5 grains powder DuPont # 4227 Dies: R C B S (2 - size & crimp Estimate MV of 2850 FPS from 18" barrel Estimite 750 + or - foot pounds of Energy Groups were average (for me) 2.5 inch at 100 yards....others have done better. Happy trails! Ed J
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I suspect this might have been one of our Johnson barrels from either Dad's company (Johnson Guns, Hamden, CT) circa 1963 or 1964.....or mine (Johnson Arms, New Haven, CT from 1966 - 1967. The 2 holes beck, in line, from the muzzle do not suggest a military front sight, but a Williams sporter front sight. The slight redness in the blueing around the gas port housing also suggests it is ours. That price is pretty high for a barrel, but then again, to my knowledge, no one is making an MMJ 5.7mm barrel any more. ej
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Joe, my very best wishes to you. Godspeed ! And I hope you can go to Tulsa on 11/10/22. Let me know if you run into anyone who knows who was the buyer of the 4 key Johnson collectibles from the Amoskeag auction of 11/20/2021. My understanding is that they did go to one buyer. Someone also said that it was a buyer from Texas. Ed J
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Many thanks. I had not seen these 2, just one of his earlier videos.
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I do not have any Johnson Target guns with a carrier. If you guys get someone to do a successful carrier, I will contribute $100 for two pieces. Keep me posted. And while aluminum might be slightly heavier than plastic, it is less likely to break in half after repeated use. ej
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This note is for those of you who contributed money to Phil Mattingly in Maine for the purpose of donating the Johnson papers to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Very briefly, Phil had just completed his reorganizing of the paperwork and, on short notice, had to make a quick trip to Pennsylvania. He wanted to simply drop his material at the museum on the way down as he was not expecting to be able to make long trips again for several months.My daughter and I quickly arranged to meet Phil at the museum with some supplementary paperwork this past Thursday. We had a short visit and picnic lunch with the curator, Alex MacKenzie, who was delighted with the donations, after which we all had to leave. The Curator and staff will need quite a bit of time to review everything and may need my help in clarifying the history of the material, despite the fact that I was a young child during WWII.More importantly, for all of us, the Museum is slowly recovering from the Covid and the recent reconstruction projects. We discussed the appropriate time for a "formal" presentation after they organize the material, and the possibility of author Bruce Canfield coming back for another speaker program, which would be appropriate for many of us to attend, if possible, at the same time.So....story to be continued....when we all have more time. Ed Johnson
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This note is for those of you who contributed money to Phil Mattingly in Maine for the purpose of donating the Johnson papers to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Very briefly, Phil had just completed his reorganizing of the paperwork and, on short notice, had to make a quick trip to Pennsylvania. He wanted to simply drop his material at the museum on the way down as he was not expecting to be able to make long trips again for several months.My daughter and I quicly arranged to meet Phil at the museum with some supplementary paperwork this past Thursday. We had a short visit and picnic lunch with the curator, Alex MacKenzie, who was delighted with the donations, after which we all had to leave. The Curator and staff will need quite a bit of time to review everything and may need my help in clarifying the history of the material, despite the fact that I was a young child during WWII.More importantly, for all of us, the Museum is slowly recovering from the Covid and the recent reconstruction projects. We discussed the appropriate time for a "formal" presentation after they organize the material, and the possibility of author Bruce Canfield coming back for another speaker program, which would be appropriate for many of us to attend, if possible, at the same time.So....story to be continued....when we all have more time. Ed Johnson
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This note is for those of you who contributed money to Phil Mattingly in Maine for the purpose of donating the Johnson papers to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Very briefly, Phil had just completed his reorganizing of the paperwork and, on short notice, had to make a quick trip to Pennsylvania. He wanted to simply drop his material at the museum on the way down as he was not expecting to be able to make long trips again for several months.My daughter and I quicly arranged to meet Phil at the museum with some supplementary paperwork this past Thursday. We had a short visit and picnic lunch with the curator, Alex MacKenzie, who was delighted with the donations, after which we all had to leave. The Curator and staff will need quite a bit of time to review everything and may need my help in clarifying the history of the material, despite the fact that I was a young child during WWII.More importantly, for all of us, the Museum is slowly recovering from the Covid and the recent reconstruction projects. We discussed the appropriate time for a "formal" presentation after they organize the material, and the possibility of author Bruce Canfield coming back for another speaker program, which would be appropriate for many of us to attend, if possible, at the same time.So....story to be continued....when we all have more time. Ed Johnson
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This note is for those of you who contributed money to Phil Mattingly in Maine for the purpose of donating the Johnson papers to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Very briefly, Phil had just completed his reorganizing of the paperwork and, on short notice, had to make a quick trip to Pennsylvania. He wanted to simply drop his material at the museum on the way down as he was not expecting to be able to make long trips again for several months.My daughter and I quicly arranged to meet Phil at the museum with some supplementary paperwork this past Thursday. We had a short visit and picnic lunch with the curator, Alex MacKenzie, who was delighted with the donations, after which we all had to leave. The Curator and staff will need quite a bit of time to review everything and may need my help in clarifying the history of the material, despite the fact that I was a young child during WWII.More importantly, for all of us, the Museum is slowly recovering from the Covid and the recent reconstruction projects. We discussed the appropriate time for a "formal" presentation after they organize the material, and the possibility of author Bruce Canfield coming back for another speaker program, which would be appropriate for many of us to attend, if possible, at the same time.So....story to be continued....when we all have more time. Ed Johnson
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The appearance and finish make it look somewhat like e Miltech unit but I don't believe Miltech fools around with doing any custom conversions in semi auto and I'm not sure if they deal with Class 3 LMG material.
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$9K is high for that.....
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Early versions of '41 JLMG did use a BAR bipod. Joe is correct on that. Check the JR&MG Canfield book. At one point, Joe Scott made up circa 12 or 20 JLMG bipods with the later design as you see on the MATSCONCRETE image above. He reverse-engineered them from an actual JLMG Bipod. I could not tell the difference. This was before Joe's eyesight took a turn for the worse. C'est la vie....
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Looking down the barrel, assumed from the chamber end, I don't see any sign of a gas port. Not sure what you meant by a "hybrid" unless you are asking if a barrel liner was used. If so, I cannot tell from the photos. In any case, I don't view it as a spitfire.
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Closest thing would be a number "8" but by the fairly straight perpendicular left line, compared with the more curvy perpendicular right line, I still would say it is a "B" for Boy. ej
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Glad to see my eyesight is still pretty good with these new glasses. Just don't ask me about my hearing...... In any case, Art, nice job in establishing no doubt about the "B"..... ej
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I can't be sure, but with 5 digits it is most likely a "B" as suggested, unlikely an "A" but in any case (unfortunately) we can't track the components unless it is only 4 digits.
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Yes, pending further info, my first guess also would be Miltech.
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And....it is a very good reason to write books...and keep them safe. I'm so glad we did.
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As we get older, we really do become more vulnerable to making mistakes and remembering things differently from their actual reality. I'm 82 now, and periodically have to remind myself that I'm slowly getting "fuzzier" in the head. I'm frequently surprised to watch an older film (I have many on tape) and realize that I don't remember it as accurately as I thought I did. But on the plus side, it saves me money renting movies...I can just keep watching my old ones and enjoying them... Indeed...."Trust but Verify." ej