kennethg

I saw a friends sporterized 1941 rifle today. It is one of the first 10,000. It was very nicely done. I was wondering if anyone is keeping a list/log of sporterized rifles. I think it would be interesting to have some idea of how many of those are out there.

Welcome to the forum. I have gained much useful information from fellow members. To answer your question, I had my rifle for several years before I decided to take it apart. That was not a problem and after doing so, I reloaded some mild loads and took it to the range. I fired it as did several of my friends. All went well with no damage to my rifle and the rifle functioned perfectly. I would think yours could be fired with the proper rounds and not do any damage to it if it is in good condition.

Very nice indeed!. I am amazed at some of the "buy it now prices" that are being asked.

From reading at least 1 post here, it sounds like there is a difference between these 2 pins. What is the difference?

eb in Oregon, You are correct. I realized this moments after posting this in this forum. I have to scroll down in my browser to see the additional forums on the forum home page and forget the wealth of information in those forums. My bad. Ken

Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons) has uploaded a new video on the 1941 Johnson rifle. I found this to be very informative but also thought his verbiage about the number of 1941 rifles purchased by the Dutch to sound like it was much larger than it was. link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMSi4o0UjkQ

The latest American Rifleman has an article on the Dardick Pistol. Melvin Johnson is named in the article and how he assisted David Dardick in this mutual venture.

Some posters on another thread that I posted here recently had commented on firing commercial ammunition in the JSAR. It was not a good thing to do because of the pressure being to high and the primers being to soft for the JSAR as well as the Gerand. I don’t recall when I was made aware of not using commercial ammunition in the Garand although I have never done that anyway. Art mentioned the REM-UMC headstamp (this was changed to R-P about 1960) on my reloaded case and made me think of something that I had not given much thought to in a long time. Sometime in the early to mid, 1950’s, my father got the 15”x18”x9.5” metal container that is shown in this post. It contained and still has most of the once fired 30-06 cases. About 75% are the REM-UMC and the remaining are military cases. These were all fired from M1 Garands. They came from a USMC rifle range on a USN shipyard where my father worked. The marines were stationed there and served as sentries. I was fortunate enough to shoot on that range sometime in the 1970’s before the base was closed. Obliviously, the marines were using commercial ammunition then and thought it was ok as maybe it was then. I seem to remember that the problem is the newer powder(s) being used, with different burning rates and curves than what was used back then. Does anybody have any idea when commercial ammunition was deemed to be damaging to Garand's and JSAR’s? Ken

Eb, good info. I wasn't concerned about the case dent but the case base was a concern. I ordered a new main spring and will be firing the jsar more once it arrives. Thanks, Ken

thanks for the info, order has been placed.

Looking to buy a 12" mainspring. If you have one and are willing to sell it, please let me know. thanks, Ken

Dash, the mainspring is only 11.5" in length. to short from all I have read. prior to checking the length, I thought it would be fine because the reliability was 100%. glad I inspected the brass. Thanks, Ken

I finally got my JSAR to the range the other day and fired about 30 rounds through it. It is 100% reliable and a pleasure to shoot. I took 2 photos of a fired case and would like to know if the ejector mark should be this pronounced and if the small dent in the case body is normal. I was shooting mild reloads that are safe in my M1 Garand. Thanks in advance, Ken

The camera found the number easier than my eyes did. It appears to be a 2.