{"id":7892,"date":"2019-10-20T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/20\/tab-episode-56-early-johnson-rifle-with-handguard-bayonet-lug\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:32:10","slug":"tab-episode-56-early-johnson-rifle-with-handguard-bayonet-lug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/20\/tab-episode-56-early-johnson-rifle-with-handguard-bayonet-lug\/","title":{"rendered":"TAB Episode 56: Early Johnson Rifle with Handguard &amp; Bayonet Lug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d3fvtRaoe8A?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One of the M1941 Johnson&#8217;s most recognisable features is its exposed barrel. This rifle, an early military R-type gun, is unusual in that it has a traditional wooden forend and bayonet mount. This appears to have been an attempt to address one of the US Military&#8217;s main concerns about the Johnson Rifle &#8211; its poor bayonet fighting characteristics. <\/p>\n<p>This early Johnson Rifle is a part of the Cody Firearms Museum&#8217;s collection and is fitted with handguard which was offered as an optional extra. Few of these survive today so we&#8217;re very lucky to get a look at the rifle.<br \/>\nCheck out the accompanying blog for this video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/armourersbench.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armourersbench.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy our work please consider supporting us via Patreon, TAB is a viewer supported channel and any help is very much appreciated!<br \/>\nWe have some great new perks, check out our Patreon page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thearmourersbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thearmourersbench<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where to find TAB:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/armourersbench.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/armourersbench.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/armourersbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/armourersbench<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thearmourersbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thearmourersbench<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/armourersbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/armourersbench<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/user\/ArmourersBench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/imgur.com\/user\/ArmourersBench<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/DAjRSBc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/DAjRSBc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the M1941 Johnson&#8217;s most recognisable features is its exposed barrel. This rifle, an early military R-type gun, is unusual in that it has a traditional wooden forend and bayonet mount. This appears to have been an attempt to address one of the US Military&#8217;s main concerns about the Johnson Rifle &#8211; its poor&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/20\/tab-episode-56-early-johnson-rifle-with-handguard-bayonet-lug\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAB Episode 56: Early Johnson Rifle with Handguard &amp; Bayonet Lug<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13344,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/13344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}