MY DAD WANTS ME TO BUY HIS ERIC JOHNSON 5 STAR 22 BALLARD . IT IS A NICKLE RECIVER THE WOOD IS DARK BUT NO CRACKS THE BARREL IS 99% THE RECIVER IS 90%.HE SAYS IT IS WORTH ABOUT 4000.
ARE THESE THAT GOOD OF A BARREL?

greetings had one simular to bloods, sold it 1 1/2 yrs ago for 900..

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I sold one several years ago to a good friend for 600 bucks. It has been for sale for years at a local gun shop, I got it trading assorted modern guns.

A lot is said about Johnson Ballards and how they are collectors items in there own right.  But there is little to no demand from collectors for a worked over positon rifle on single shot actions, Particulary when it's ugly.  As good a gunsmith as Johnson was it's said he did not do the stock work. This particular rifle I could have stocked better and I am no craftsman.

However at 600 bucks it's a tack driver bench rest 22 and was well worth the money. He enjoys competing with it and lets me shoot it anytime I want. When you get over a thousand I wonder about the value. More than a Thousand I know a Johnson small bore conversion is overpriced.  It could be the one 40 rod is talking about, it had a B&L Balvar I charged him another 500 for.

Boats

will_ballard wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 11:07am:


Let's make this easy, it's only worth what it will bring. If you really want the rifle, then ask him to show you one that brought that kind of money. They had better be the same.

What you want, may not be the same as what it's worth!

Eric Johnson made his own bbl's and chambering reamers - he was a Camp Perry smallbore champion.  In his heyday people bought model 52 Winchesters and sent them to Eric to have them rebarreled with out ever having shot them.  But unless there is something really special about that Ballard other than the barrel I would say $1000 - $1200.  But thats just my opinion.  I currently own one and it is a shooter. - respectfully - the rimfire - cdpersons