Another Johnson but wait

FWIW, that would be my SWA guess. A quick Google image search shows scoped Johnsons with bases mounted in roughly this same area, though the original rear sight is usually sacrificed in the process.



I'll check Canfield's book tomorrow -- I vaguely remember seeing a postwar ad for Johnsons that included scope mounting as an option.

Incidentally, did you notice the scoped Johnson that appeared briefly in the Captain America movie?

Page 222 of Canfield's Johnson book has a Winfield Arms Corp. advertisement from the 9/53 issue of American Rifleman, offering Johnson 'Custom Sporter' rifles in 30-06, .270, and '7mm' for $159.90, or $228.50 w/ Weaver 4x scope mounted, $233.45 w/ Bushnell 4x mounted. The illustration shows a 3-ring mount and no rear sight (but, strangely, a hooded ramp front.)

I'll do a scan when I have the chance.

Not enough resolution here to tell whether the holes on your receiver would match this scope base, but I don't see how the one shown here could work with the rear sight still in place.

This whole thread makes me jealous, outraged, and sad....not necessarily in that order, lol.

But seriously, Jeff, teasing us with another Johnson and only showing that tiny part of the receiver is just cruel!

Jeff olson said:

It's weird. The screws are roughly. 1 1/4" apart. The owner says the gun has been untouched door 40 years

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That makes sense -- seems like the desire to alter a Johnson would have lost its appeal sometime before 1980ish. Makes the unaltered survivors that much rarer.

What a cool rifle