Hey, so does anybody else have one of these?
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Anyways I figured I'd post about it here along with maybe a few of my other collectables. I like ww2 and I like autos. So here is my 1941 Johnson that I cannot actually recommend anybody else to ever purchase due to the lack of parts that simply don't exist anymore and the bull crap stories the sellers make up. I can tell you I paid what seems like
too much for this creature but I love her as she holds a place in my collection. Anyways, here is what she looks like. Original stock, original sling, original bayonet and a crappy picture that I really have to take a better one which I probably will soon enough.
The bayonet is totally insane. The weapon's barrel retracts when you shoot it and well, just retracts in general so the whole idea you'd even stab somebody with this is just
ridiculous. Here is what the bayonet looks like:
The sling is a work of art though. God I love how it looks and feels. Quality leather here.
It actually has a bolt carrier group like the AR pattern rifles. Its totally over engineered but that's a ww2 era auto for you. This is some crazy mechanism for no apparent reason.
How to extract this is another level of amazing. Its a while 10 wave set of firefight on its own to deal with. You have to pull the pin that holds the charging handle set with a tiny grabby thing of some sort but it doesn't exactly want to come out so you ..or me... spends about 40 minutes pulling at a snail's tooth praying it doesn't snap. Once that's out the barrel has to come out. That's another level of stupid because the barrel just comes out. Its held in by a latch at the end of the stock that if smacked hard enough has the potential to fall loose and mind you this was designed for combat and thus the barrel could potentially become a weapon device of its own. Yes, you heard it launch the barrel at the enemy. A whole new playing field. This is the amazing latch system.
Don't question it. Its a show about a talking sponge living in a pineapple at the bottom of the ocean. The barrel is neat though, here's the barrel!
Great aerodynamics on this, maybe it WAS designed to be a missile of its own. So to further go on the idea this is just a ww2 AR pattern system, the stock has a buffer piston. Yes, a buffer piston. I don't know any other weapon that works this way (wink wink). So here is the stock's buffer tube and recoil absorbing/recycling system. Mind you its all in the rear, there is nothing to control gas on this weapon system. Its all rear wheel drive.
The ball and socket joint go together like an SVTs charging handle and a 7.62x54r. It works and feels good to put it in that hole. So yeah, its a simple thread. I'll take apart something else this weekend, my K43 or Ag42-b or something who the hell knows. I hope this thread is proper, on topic and is appreciated in some way. Here, have a BCG.
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