Barry in IN

I just looked to see if there was any progress here. With 3D printers getting more common, I was hoping someone had tried making them by now. Anyone? I don't have a 3D printer, but have access to one and someone who knows how to use it. Now if I only had a carrier to copy. I have two Indoor Target Rifles, but neither has the carrier. I'm not about to ask to borrow one to copy either. Since it would be out of my hands while being copied, I don't want to be responsible for safeguarding the return. Maybe someday soon we can get a part owner and printer owner together!

You found it! Welcome Vernz! I keep looking at those threads and thinking about the JA brakes I have. I know it would likely affect function, but I'd still like to know if on would fit, just for the heck of it. We are in the process of moving, or I'd send you one to try just to satisfy my own curiosity. Hopefully I'll remember this in a couple of weeks after we get settled. Since it's hard to put metal back, I'm always hesitant to remove anything. For that reason, I'd leave the threads there. They don't hurt anything. Later, if you decide to get rid of it, then you could redo the muzzle.

Thank you very much for sharing.

Answered mine! Thanks!

I'd also like to know the band diameter that fits best. I started to order bands for mine, thinking "surgical tubing" was "surgical tubing". Apparently it comes in several sizes.

I'm so sorry to hear that, Sir. My condolences.

Neat plate. BTW, I never was much of a Toyota fan and never thought I'd have one. Then my wife bought one, I bought one about six months later, and just got my third straight (Highlander).

When that show was announced, the owner's name rang a bell, which is odd because the place is several hundred miles from here. I'm on an email list with quite a few guys from CO on it, and I ran a search and saw his and the shop's name a few times. Not a popular guy. A few lawsuits along the way. One "popular" trick is to sell a gun, then if the NICS check is denied (restraining orders are almost SOP with divorces nowadays) he refuses to refund the money. But he will offer to sell it on consignment for a nice fat cut. Swell sounding guy.

It looks like it's going to sell, after meeting the reserve in a relisting. I think it was at $6125 the last I looked. This stuff really sets me off. There has been enough misinformation repeated about Johnson rifles over the years that I expect some incorrect things to be claimed. Maybe that's why when something that is clearly intended to deceive comes up, it bugs me so much.

Welcome!

That's what i use, for the Johnson and for a re-barreled .308 Mauser I have. The are great on the range, but when carrying them in a pouch or pocket they don't retain the cartridges as well as US clips with (decent condition) tabs. I pull a clip out and it has three or four rounds on it. But I'm working on a solution.

I don't know how useful the info is, but I found it interesting. I'm a lot smarter about cast bullets now than when I started but I've found it doesn't take much to make them work in almost anything. Still, getting them to function so well through a semiauto that was meant to be operated by ammunition firing bullets nearly twice as fast impressed me.

I should also add that this bullet has a pretty blunt nose rather than the streamlined GI bullet. That didn't matter to the Johnson, but it did matter the the Garand and the 1903. I could only load five rounds in the Garand because the fat noses dragged against metal within the receiver opening. Using only five rounds allowed them to wiggle around to find a place to rest. Loading a full eight rounds caused the clip to stop dead long before seating. The 1903 would accept them in the magazine but would not feed all five into the chamber. When it did, it was only those feeding from the left side of the magazine and that was sporadic. A little guidance from my fingers got them all to work. So this is one case where a semiauto was more dependable than a bolt I suppose.

I got a heavy .30 cal mould recently, a discontinued Saeco #308. This makes a bullet weighing a whopping 218.5 grains on average from my alloy. I couldn't help but think I could get it to work in the JSAR at even slower speeds. I tried it out yesterday using IMR 4350. My starting load was 35 grains, which I arrived at by knowing some cast bullet shooters use the very similar Lynan 311284 with 40 grains in their Garands. I thought a five grain reduction would put it right around the edge of functioning. As it turned out, 35 grains operated the Johnson just fine. That 35 grain charge averaged 1555 fps, operated the rifle, locked the bolt open on the last round and made a 2-3/4" group. This was at 50 yards because I had no idea where the POI would be. I wasn't even thinking much about group size, and checking for function. I decided to try a little harder on the next load. The next step up was 36 grains, which went slightly faster at 1576 fps, worked fine, and made a 1-3/4" group. Remember, this us at 50 yards. Finally I tried the 37 grain load. There was a good jump in velocity there to 1693 fps average. Of course it worked the action fine. The group was the smallest of all at 1-1/2". It had occurred to me that although I was shooting five shot groups, I should fill the magazine in case that caused more drag on the bolt. I did that- loading ten and shooting five and it worked fine. I tried these same loads in a Garand and an M1903a3. The Garand operated with the 36 grain charge but the 35 grain would only run the bolt far enough to eject the empty. I need to head back out with some lighter charges to see where the Johnsons's threshold is with this bullet. Getting it to run at the mid 1500s even with a heavy bullet is impressing me but it makes me want to see how low it will go. Though not pertaining to Johnson info at all, I found it interesting that the M1903 liked none of this. That rifle has a two-groove barrel and they prefer cast bullets with a long bore riding nose. This bullet is about half groove-filling bands and half bore riding nose but I didn't think it would do as bad as it did. The first load went 10" with one tumbling (but within the group) and the next load went 12".

It is something everyone should see at least once. I haven't been in about 12 years. It was getting too crowded for my tastes then, and I bet it's worse now. A far cry from when my buddy started going and knew almost everyone by name. I'll never forget my first time though. I have to describe it so those who have never been can get the feel: We parked and started walking in, and I heard the sound of rushing water nearby. I assumed there was a swollen creek nearby (it always rains buckets for days leading up to the shoot). I asked my buddy, who had been several times, about this and he didn't know what I was talking about. As we walked, I kept hearing it so I asked again once or twice. He kept wondering what I was talking about. He thought I was nuts. Then the sound just stopped. And I understood. The rushing noise was not rapids or a waterfall, but MGs in the distance. There were so many being fired at once that it was one solid sound. When the sound stopped, it was due to calling a regular cease fire. I thought I knew what it would sound like from hearing MGs before, but I had never heard so many at once which was quite different. A wall of noise. This guy and I also like to talk about that time since we had $10K in cash between us and that would have bought most things there. Now, besides us not being able to scare up $10K, it wouldn't touch hardly anything if we could.