1941 Johnson Automatic Rifle troubleshoot and repair: Anvil 0140 

Tell me you’re in southern New (Jermany) Jersey. I’m looking for a good smith

@@russellthompson3486 unfortunatly i am in northern ( wayne area)

You don't know what communist means.

​@@ergosum5260 New Jersey is a Democrat stronghold and the Democrats behave like communists, so he obviously knows what he's talking about.

@@russellthompson3486 James fogg Salem New Jersey. Good gunsmith. There is also one in cherry hill Robert’s I think

Is anyone listening to this man?? WAKE UP PEOPLES

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Me too!

That is because the tiny spring that held it down would break. Then during firing the hold open would sometimes pop up during recoil and stop the cycling. The Johnson had way too many fragile parts as most of Melvin's designs went.

@@ewathoughts8476 Thank you, I didn’t know that! I like the gun but the Garand seems more robust to me and though heavier I think it’s more solidly built gun. That said I think outfitting the paratroopers with them exclusively would solve the resupply nightmare they had with too many different infantry weapons. My M1 carbine breaks and you run out of 30 06 and we are both screwed.

This was a detail strip and repair. Pulling the bolt and cleaning the barrel only need a cartridge as a tool. Mark has an earlier video on this gun

Upvote and comment for visibility, because I'd love to see Mark work on a Se Unica!

Upvote as well. Mateba's are awesome unicorns.

Hey now!! 😂

It did have a very lightweight pig sticker bayonet issued…

The bolt design for sure.

it was mostly used by the marines because they wouldn't get Garands from the big A until a long time, and it accepted standard M1903 charger clips and even there it was mostly used by the paramarines as the ability to remove the barrel made it that much shorter, thus easier to handle in an hypothetical para operation as for whether they were marine proof, eh~, the gun design was solid enough, a couple parts that are weaker but all rifles have that, regular maintenance would have you mostly just pop the barrel out to clean it, and remove the lower assembly via that one pin to clean and oil the firing group, uncertain now how the bold came out but for a simple field maintenance it was okay most of the little issues are down to a lack of ord support who of course favored their baby (the M1 rifle)

There's a lot of magic in material selection and heat treating that you can't get out of A 3D scan, and it is all absolutely critical to making a correctly working gun. Just do the scan and duplicate it in ABS or PLA or 1040 or aluminum, and you will have a gun that might empty the mag without naming, blowing up, or failing completely in some other way.

It might pop up on gunbroker or ebay. Looks like there a "johnsonautomatics" forum that would probably be a really good resource. I didn't see any at the usual suspects, Sarco, Numrich, Apex, Old Arms of Idaho or EveryGunPart.

I fabricated one for mine out of a piece of sheet metal (old car fender)

Oh but its not the first time Mark's gotten his hands on a Johnson. A must watch is Mark's earlier Anvil episode 058 where he completely took it apart. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9uXrWAR6GgE.html

@@johnanon6938 I've been following his work since he was still posting on C&Arsenal and not his own page, so thank you for reminding me why this seemed inaccurate to say. That (when I first became aware of his work, I mean) was like eight years ago, and a LOT has happened, both in the world and just my personal life in that time.

Yes, but unfortunately, she didn't say it to me. 😢

The stock has a recessed notch in the wood to accept to the magazine retention pin.

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It's off!! Not of...😮