Need an m-14
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blfuller
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Are you looking for a select fire USGI M14 or a semi auto like the Springfield Armory M1A?
english kanigit
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Here is another Wichita person with the same question....
Ivy Mike
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You're not going to find a REAL M14 at a reasonable price.
Your best bet would probably be an M1A from Springfield Armory. Too bad they ask so much for a simple rifle. Not worth the price tag IMHO, but to each his own.
You might find a good used one.
Hey, maybe we can convince the CMP to start selling M14s (neutered of course)
Your best bet would probably be an M1A from Springfield Armory. Too bad they ask so much for a simple rifle. Not worth the price tag IMHO, but to each his own.
You might find a good used one.
Hey, maybe we can convince the CMP to start selling M14s (neutered of course)
ocabj
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M1A is a trademarked name. It does not encompass all semi-auto M14 variants.
Fulton Armory sells quality semi-auto M14s.
Fulton Armory sells quality semi-auto M14s.
cabinetman
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The M14 was never released in it's select-fire version to my knowledge. They are extremely rare.
There are other manufactureres of the M1a, other than Springfield Armory. When the military "abandoned" the M14, all of the machinery to make them was sold to Taiwan and both Norinco and Polytech made their versions. The recievers are top-knotch but the bolts are soft. So what. Bolts are easily replaced with GI bolts and you'll end up with a top-shelf M1a shooter.
I've got a Poltech. It's a tack driver well beyond the 200 yards I've shot with it. I paid $600 (private sale) at Knob Creek last October. I brought it home and headspaced it to find that I was at the limit of safety. So, I sent it out to an armorer and had a TRW bolt put in. The bolt came from LRB in Long island NY and cost me $100. I also ended up putting a NM Douglass medium-weight barrel in mine and also unified the gas. All up I've got $1000 into it and it'll outshoot any Springfield rifle, period. So, there are plenty of M1a rifles out there by both Norinico and Polytech for about $500-700 depending on condition. Freds' sells great military original M1a stocks to swap for the "sporter" stock that normally comes with the rifle. Most trigger groups are GI, too. All up, you've got a fantastic rifle that will do everything that our snipers in Iraq are using right this minute.
You can spend upward of $2000 on one of these rifles if you go the "custom" route and buy an LRB or Fulton receiver but I dont' see the reason to do that unless you are in hot competition. I took my first deer at 87 yards with iron sites this Fall with my "new" Poly.
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There are other manufactureres of the M1a, other than Springfield Armory. When the military "abandoned" the M14, all of the machinery to make them was sold to Taiwan and both Norinco and Polytech made their versions. The recievers are top-knotch but the bolts are soft. So what. Bolts are easily replaced with GI bolts and you'll end up with a top-shelf M1a shooter.
I've got a Poltech. It's a tack driver well beyond the 200 yards I've shot with it. I paid $600 (private sale) at Knob Creek last October. I brought it home and headspaced it to find that I was at the limit of safety. So, I sent it out to an armorer and had a TRW bolt put in. The bolt came from LRB in Long island NY and cost me $100. I also ended up putting a NM Douglass medium-weight barrel in mine and also unified the gas. All up I've got $1000 into it and it'll outshoot any Springfield rifle, period. So, there are plenty of M1a rifles out there by both Norinico and Polytech for about $500-700 depending on condition. Freds' sells great military original M1a stocks to swap for the "sporter" stock that normally comes with the rifle. Most trigger groups are GI, too. All up, you've got a fantastic rifle that will do everything that our snipers in Iraq are using right this minute.
You can spend upward of $2000 on one of these rifles if you go the "custom" route and buy an LRB or Fulton receiver but I dont' see the reason to do that unless you are in hot competition. I took my first deer at 87 yards with iron sites this Fall with my "new" Poly.
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Kingcreek
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<quote>"I've got $1000 into it and it'll outshoot any Springfield rifle, period. "
Hey cabinetman, that's a pretty bold statement. I admire your confidence but I'm not sure I can accept that as gospel. I've got an M1a supermatch that will drill some nice tiny groups with its air-guaged douglas barrel. Glen Nelson (former director of the USAMU IIRC) used to assemble and bed the SMs at his shop in Atlanta for Springfield Armory.
Hey cabinetman, that's a pretty bold statement. I admire your confidence but I'm not sure I can accept that as gospel. I've got an M1a supermatch that will drill some nice tiny groups with its air-guaged douglas barrel. Glen Nelson (former director of the USAMU IIRC) used to assemble and bed the SMs at his shop in Atlanta for Springfield Armory.
Dionysusigma
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The Holy Grail of my collection would be a Fulton Armory M14 Peerless. Maybe when I hit it rich.
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Steve Smith
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If you just want a cheap M-14 copy, get a Polytech or Norinco.
Dionysusigma, that really hurts my ears...you really don't want that do you?
Dionysusigma, that really hurts my ears...you really don't want that do you?
Dionysusigma
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My apologies... 
Strange mood I was in last night...
Strange mood I was in last night...
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