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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)
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.
<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.
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