View From The Porch: Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #94...

Sunday, June 01, 2014

Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #94...

Third from the top? Yeah, that's a Vickers-Armstrong .276 Pedersen. Don't see those every day.

(Incidentally, the guns in the RIA display all had their firing pins still in them, unlike the guns out for coonfingering in the manufacturer's booths. Hence the zip ties.)
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16 comments:

Anonymous said...: Third from the bottom is pretty sweet too...

davek; 10:01 AM, June 01, 2014
Robert Fowler said...: Is that a Krag with a metal handguard? Is that a rare thing? I've never seen one like that out in the wild.; 10:26 AM, June 01, 2014
Robert Fowler said...: I finally got it blown up big enough to see that it was a Johnson. Damn these old eyes.; 10:34 AM, June 01, 2014
Anonymous said...: I admired the paratrooper carbine below it. Always wanted one of those; maybe, someday.

Matt
St Paul; 11:07 AM, June 01, 2014
Anonymous said...: Looks like 3rd from the bottom is a Johnson (Melvin Johnson designed a short recoil operated rifle/LMG pair that was sold to Netherlands. The LMG version was used by 1st Special Service Force in preference to the BAR.); 2:00 PM, June 01, 2014
Kristophr said...: Hmmm ... nice wiki-wander.

The Japanese made 12 Pederson rifles, and 12 carbines ... and one was taken by a GI in Mindanao:

http://www.carbinesforcollectors.com/pedersen.html; 2:15 PM, June 01, 2014
Anonymous said...: One of them is a WWII shotgun made by Savage. Alas, my copy of same is missing a smallish screw.; 3:03 PM, June 01, 2014
wolfwalker said...: And a paratrooper carbine on the bottom, and a scoped Garand... Oh wow, if those guns could talk!; 4:49 PM, June 01, 2014
Sean D Sorrentino said...: One of these days I want to go to the Fun Show with you and Roberta. I'd at least know what the heck I was looking at.

If it's not in a box with a label or something obvious like a M1 or a Swiss K, I have no idea what it is.; 5:58 PM, June 01, 2014
Kevin R.C. O'Brien said...: Tying this in with our hostess's next post, an ordinary Johnson is an attainable gun, more so than some more common US military weapons (1903A4 for instance, or the M1C sniper rifle). Figure $2500-4000 or so.

Not many Johnsons were made, and a few were combat losses, but almost all survivors made it into the civilian market in the USA. The riot gun below it is more of a rarity, honest!

There may be something special about the Johnson RIA has on display here, but maybe not.

Sometimes you can get one of the ones that was bubba'd a little for hunters at a steep discount. OTOH some of those were an early example of teflon coating, and the teflon are, shall we say, for the advanced collector.

They're also a blast to shoot. Allow extra time if other folks are going to be at the range. Because they'll all want to oogle and touch.; 6:00 PM, June 01, 2014
roland said...: I haven't been to the NRAAM in years. I think you just lit a fire under my ass.; 6:10 PM, June 01, 2014
Anonymous said...: At first glance, those guns look really big compared to the people.; 6:39 PM, June 01, 2014
Noah said...: "Can I handle the Johnson?"; 12:04 PM, June 02, 2014
treefroggy said...: Definitely the Johnson . Want .; 4:25 PM, June 02, 2014
staghounds said...: That's a fun thing about going to high end gun auctions- you're expected to pick them up.; 8:34 AM, June 03, 2014
Matt T. said...: My boss has one of those in his "office collection" (the office is the back room of a gun shop). I get a serious case of gun envy every time I walk in there. If its a rare mil-surp, he probably has got one or two of them on the wall.; 2:38 AM, June 06, 2014