A year after their release, what are the opinions, experiences, and advice of owners of this interesting rifle?

George

The M14’s are making quite a come back with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...and its about time this great battle rifle got back in the game.

If you send me an email addy I’ll send you a couple of pictures from Iraq of my son with his M14 and the slickest stock you have ever seen.

Adopt-A-Sniper sent him the stock a few months ago and he flat out loves it. If you put one of the SOCOM Springfield shorter barreled models in this stock the sucker would really be handy.

For Rick

Hey, Thanks Gene!

One of these days this old jar-head is gonna figure out how to do all that stuff!

My other half is the smart one This is me at the puter

Gene

Here’s the web site for the company making those stocks.

So far the only complaint my son has had with it is that it is a bit difficult to get the butt into your shoulder when wearing an armored vest. Not a big deal with the light recoiling M4’s and M16’s...but with an M14 it can get your attention if the butt isn’t firmly against your shoulder.

http://sageinternationalltd.com/si/newprod/newprod.html

I wanna know 100-250 yard accuracy.

quote:

Originally posted by Gentleman Jack:
I wanna know 100-250 yard accuracy.

My son certainly hasn’t mentioned any problems with accuracy, and without getting too graphic, he has used it at ranges much farther out than 250 yards.

Could a guy convert one of those into 358 winchester?

I think when the M-1A first came out .358 Win was on the list.

George
I have had a M 1-A "Bush Gun" for several years. If I was buying one now I would get the SOCOM or the Scout Rifle. I like my Bush Gun quite a bit. I have the Folding stock, and another standard length "plastic" stock, so I can switch between the two.
A friend who has the SOCOM did tell me it is very loud.

Once when teaching a Sniper Rifle school in IL the factory REP brought out several Springfield Armoury products for the students to fire.
I shot a Scout rifle with the aimpoint sight at a mansized target at 600 yards.
It shot very well. Your computer screen would not be safe.
As a plus I have never known a M1-A not to feed factory soft point bullets.
!65/168 grain buyllets and 39.5 grains of IMR 3031 has shot great in every M1-A standard or match version that I have shot.
Federal 168 Match factory ammo is a good way to test the acuracy of your M1-A.
I have shot several SA M1-A's over the years and all of them were reliable and accurate.

George
I have had a M 1-A "Bush Gun" for several years. If I was buying one now I would get the SOCOM or the Scout Rifle. I like my Bush Gun quite a bit. I have the Folding stock, and another standard length "plastic" stock, so I can switch between the two.
A friend who has the SOCOM did tell me it is very loud.

Once when teaching a Sniper Rifle school in IL the factory REP brought out several Springfield Armoury products for the students to fire.
I shot a Scout rifle with the aimpoint sight at a mansized target at 600 yards.
It shot very well. Your computer screen would not be safe.
As a plus I have never known a M1-A not to feed factory soft point bullets.
!65/168 grain buyllets and 39.5 grains of IMR 3031 has shot great in every M1-A standard or match version that I have shot.
Federal 168 Match factory ammo is a good way to test the acuracy of you

quote:

Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
George
I have had a M 1-A "Bush Gun" for several years. If I was buying one now I would get the SOCOM or the Scout Rifle. I like my Bush Gun quite a bit. I have the Folding stock, and another standard length "plastic" stock, so I can switch between the two.
A friend who has the SOCOM did tell me it is very loud.

Once when teaching a Sniper Rifle school in IL the factory REP brought out several Springfield Armoury products for the students to fire.
I shot a Scout rifle with the aimpoint sight at a mansized target at 600 yards.
It shot very well. Your computer screen would not be safe.
As a plus I have never known a M1-A not to feed factory soft point bullets.
!65/168 grain buyllets and 39.5 grains of IMR 3031 has shot great in every M1-A standard or match version that I have shot.
Federal 168 Match factory ammo is a good way to test the acuracy of you

Thanks for the advice!

George

Another thing to consider:
For "civilian" use for close in [ie city] protection, if you are worried about over penetration of the 308 try some of Hornadays TAP 110 grain loads. If they function in your rifle they might be a good choice.

George,
Have owned a SOCOM 16 for a year and a half and really like it. I've run almost 1000 rds through it (Aussie and South African surplus) with absolutely no problems.

For optics, I'm using a Trijicon Tri-Power. It is very fast to come up on target and get accurate shots.

Very fun to shoot.
Wish I could take it with me later on this month.....
Sako

First of all i must congratulate Rick for his great son ,i used several rifles while a scout in the army always in 7.62 nato among them m14s and the scom version i believe is just perfect short ,and handy ,Col Copper said that a scout rifle must have a barrel of not more than 18 inches .I use to have a shrt version of the fal called commando fal very handy too .juan

Yo, Invader66,

Where's your ear plugs?

You want to get deaf like me?

Regards,

Eric

I have (2) Knight rail systems for the M-14/M1A that you cant get anymore because the military has bought them ALL to convert their M14/M21s to the set up in the picture. The rails allow for different light/laser/optics/etc and are really cool. Knight lists them for 499.00 and I'd sell mine for 400.00 if anyone is interested. I even have the replacement piece for teh rear sight to convert for scope mounting. I love that the military is putting these old war horses back in operation. They are heavy but the quote going around the desert is "175 grains of truck driving death".

I think it will be a long time before any M1A/M14's get to the CMP. To many still in use. As for an M1 go to some of the auction sites, Gun Broker, Auction Arms. There are some for sale all the time.