1941 Johnson Values

[5MadFarmers]

Tis a strange person who hangs out in a forum for a rifle he doesn't even like.

I wish I had a dime for every auction I've attended where an older gentleman is grumbling about the prices stuff gets: "I remember when those were $25!" The answer to my question of "how many did you buy?" is invariably "none." Should I assume you wish you would have held on to those three? Just ribbing you - sticking it in Microsoft or Cisco would have been an "investment" whereas guns are doing well in just holding (considering inflation). A guy I shoot with bought a BAR in the late 1960s - he's happy with what the price has done. I think he paid less for it than the tax stamp. His "investment" is a truck went less well but he's ok with that.

I've noticed prices, across the board on guns, falling in my local area.

Condition and all the other issues aside:
RIA, 12/2008, Lot 3594: 5175
RIA, 12/2008, Lot 3598: 4887.50

RIA 9/2009, Lot3523: 8625
RIA 9/2009, Lot3542: 3737.50

So I'd have to widen the sample to gain any meaningful picture.

[Drill Sergeant]

Over the years I've had three M1941 Johnson rifles. I never liked them. The most I paid, from Sarco, in the red barn, was US$99.98. Service Armament Co., Bogota, NJ sold them for US $79.95. Bayonets were US $2.50 extra. To this day that is about what I feel they are worth.

Amazing!

[shoot!!!]

Jeez, tom in NJ, you should have bought 20 of the $hitty rifles,, and now you could buy a house in NJ! Short sighted, did you buy any bank stocks in the last year??

[riverviewnb]

I bought mine in the 90s for $75 US. The wood is not in great shape but it fires great. I have a video of two johnsons being fired at the dame time

wade