Not the biggest fan but the Johnson feels like the ‘Marine’ option to the army Garands and BARS. Also still waiting for a br4 magazine fed Johnson R but that is another story. That is a much better-looking gun than either of the two snipers we got in the last event. It feels like something a marine would take home after the war take to a gun smith for turkey hunting. Or for encouraging tax collectors not to start another whiskey rebellion. The johnson a fine alternative to the Garand, the scoped johnson a fine alternative to a scoped garand.
looks suspiciously like a post war sporterized sniper rifle. Johnson rifles were very popular in the 50s and 60s as surplus sport rifles.
original gun:
No army would pay for such “fancy” equipment.
same rifle on a post war flier… Im pretty sure that you just found yet another post-war sport rifle instead of the mythical Johnson sniper rifles that were supposedly used by the USMC.
That is definitely not a ww2 scope either, seems to be a Redfield 3-9x scope, but its hard to tell because the picture is small. For reference, Redfield started making scopes in 1959.
