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My winfield sporter 9128 has a bolt hold open feature installed in it, so maybe winfield retrofitted some with those. Personally, I find the feature a distraction for this particular rifle style, partuclarly if the part was easily lost or not idiot proof, and having to push in the load gate to get the bolt forward difficult on my rifle.

I had searched this forum and found some links with photos of the johnson in use in the dutch east indies, one of those showing johnsons being practice fired on board ship at a water target, etc. Now, I must have not either saved it or I can't recognize the link on my computer!

Good point for all others, I of course have shoot so much surplus over the years it is like second hat. I used swab the bores in the field with ammonia method then cleaning, then I would at the field swab with hoppes no.9 which says something about handling something such like that, then cleaning when home thoroughly. Right now, I am out of hoppes no.9, so I will go the ammonia method, though the amonia method contains alot of water which bugs me getting in a gun especially when winter starts setting in, nothing drys fast enough. I wished I did have some "GI bore cleaner" cause I think that was some of the best stuff for cleaning corrosive ammo. Other than that, this is a good point for still those who are either younger or haven't actually heard that old surplus ammunition is corrosive, I have seen alot of surplus firearms bores ruined or might as well be called ruined sitting at gunshops. Thanks...

Wouldn't ya know, I lucked out, if you can call it that, in getting the former deceased owners 440 rounds of 1941 m2 ball apart from the johnson of subject here, he had owned too, in its' original ww2 unissued ammo can and all rounds in unopened boxes except one opened up for inspection, for $100 from the gun shop, a nice gesture from them, though I am always leary of vintage ammo unless it is dirt cheap or near so. I just don't see this kind of stuff needing to be "protected" as collector ammo, I had shot up some same boxed as lesser quality years ago and my last of same year ammo just last week. I once several months ago tried to buy just the nice . ww2 50 cal can can alone, but couldn't then unless with ammo for $200 instead of the $100 today, and of course, like I said, I think it is okay for me to "consume" these rounds in my johnson guilt free, the way I see it, the older vintage ammo gets the more prone to not igniting it gets, good thing this stuff was recently sealed up. By the way, I would post photos of my rifle other than that link, but I click on "image" to find a hosted link to photo's and it don't work, so I guess pic posting aint really done.

Wow, a .270 barrel, that is so amazing that these rifles can obvously take custom barrels! I hope there is never a reason I have to give up my johnson shooter, too much potential for when I get more hobby money together for spending(like an inheritence I am patiently waiting on). Man, it would be so interesting to have a myriad of shooter caliber barrels in the various calibers if that is all it took was to change the barrel over, I shoot open iron sights regularly at 300 plus yards so I don't need scoping. I've owned a hohnson for less than a week, this is all alot to take in all of a sudden, like it was when I was standing in front of one, available and shootable and affordable itself.

Looks like my barrel assembly has been changed over time, numbers are 0660k both places on the barrel. I have some theories about why it shoots so low, either the front sight is too tall and meant for 7mm or the rear sight is wrong or a reproduction making it wrong somehow, likely the front sight base. Barrel does have the two pin ways if a bayonet lug is to be installed so it aint a reproduction or m1 garand barrel.

Test shot the johnson today again, about six rounds of korean m2 ball surplus and some m2 ball spec softpoint reloads at 2850 fps 150 gr, was shooting extremely low on the 50 meter setting at 50 meters, had to jack the sight to 4 hundred meters to get more under the bullseye better. I believe I should give the muzzle crown a 5 minute recrown job, the shots dispersed more than I liked but did group. I know these aren't fine target grade rifles, maybe the muzzle is uneven somewhat, but what is sure there is too much parkerizing there for me to really tell. What worries me is how low it shoots, maybe these generally shot low or one was to aim at the feet of an enemy target, unsure. Who knows, maybe I shouldn't shoot it at all, I don't even have a plan if I broke a firing pin or anything happened to an extractor, as for everthing else, really, everything seems excellent condition, and there aint nothing wrong with the bore of my rifle except maybe the crown seems uneven and has too much parkerizing buildup around it.

Jeese, it aint keeping me logged in when I return.

Whoops, that was me as "guest" accidently, I see I have to log in and it accepts a "guest". Anyway, the serial number is 9128, a very faint "8" but there, thank goodness the mystery buffer of the past left the serial number. OKAY, I AM HAVING TROUBLE POSTINNG PICS, AND I HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME, HERE IS A LINK WITH THE PHOTO'S ON ANOTHER BOARD WAY DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. THE ARROW ON TAPE POINTS TO AN AREA I FEEL ON ORIGINALS HAD AN ACCESS HOLE TO PUSH THROUGH THE HAMMER BLOCK PIN, IF I AM RIGHT, THAT WAY I COULD REMOVE THE BUTTSTOCK AND TRIGGER GROUP FOR INSPECTION, THOUGH IT LOOK LIK BRAND NEW IN THERE. The slopping is eliminate when the plug is in there and after I "tighten up the screw clockwise, so ther is no slop then otherwise I would have never shot it if there was slop, I guess like I said, thank goodness for a wood plug, but I would rather have a steel plate over the wood plug, then a buttplate, seems with repeated recoil the wood screws and the buttplate would give out, LIKELY WHY THIS rifle wasn't shot much, seemingly, my gain. http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=1536

I am a new owner of a johnson 1941 semi automatic 30-06 and since I live semi rural and semi remote I felt lucky just standing in front of one locally, picked that one up completely reparkerized the other day for a low price of $1500 mainly cause all the markings are gone on the top of the receiver except serial number in the 9000 range so the gun shop felt it was only worth a quick $1500(maybe they were right), the gun shop said previous owner acquired it from the estate of original owner who had left it in the white with no finish, so they reparked it for sale, I was surprised to get offered it for justr $1500 in "shooter grade", oh yeah I paid that amount, couldn't really afford it after all sorts of other collecting recently. Anyway, took it to the range today, I, haha, hope that is okay, cause I put one 1941 round through it,then two m2 ball reloads, worked fine, and I am re-inspecting, all seems okay, had a heck of a time figuring out how to take it apart to inspect the trigger group, it shoots just fine, all the bolt parts are immaculate, and the bore and muzzle have seen seemingly little use. I have had more troubles with more expensive and rifle systems freshly reparked or brand new, seems parkerizing really slows guns up a bit till they break in. Well, I must be lucky unless there is somethng I aint seen yet, all seems in order, $1500 shooting excellent rifle "out of the box" so to speak. I don't have a photo yet, sorry, only can state it has military front sight, no bayo lug, some sort of sporter rear stock with plastic buttplate, there is a wood plug near the buttplate that seems to keep the recoil system in check. Other than that, I proved the wood plug wasn't shoved through the buttplate at the range so it is what winfield wanted in there then. Yes, I will study the schematics more, this recoil assembly setup concerns me, though I am sure it is all the way it is supposed to be or the sporter setup wasn't a perfect setup.