Porkchopsandwhich
CGN Regular
Go to bed at 8 am and this is what i wake up to when I get to a computer... 85 left, decisions..... decisions.
US M14 Parts Kits
- Thread starter Mr Wolverine
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ThatM305Guy
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- North Texas
How on earth do you check the number remaining?
- Location
- East of Home, West of the Rest
Put more than they have in your basket. It will adjust it to what is left.
ThatM305Guy
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- North Texas
Good to know....I don't think they will, but fingers crossed they last another couple weeks to payday >.<
P0WERWAGON
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- burnaby BC كافر
at one point they had -7 heavy barrel kits and 86 regular, then the heavy disappeared and they had 95 regular.
Aniest
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Edmonton, Old Wholesale Sports
Now that I have had time to review the pictures of the non-heavy barrel unit you have pictured the F/A Connector Arm IS included in that photo, unless I am mistaken:
If you have an arm only please let me know if I can purchase it without having to buy a kit to simply roll over or part out the rest of the kit (because I already have everything else now and not interested in yet another m14/m1a/m305 platform)
Mr Wolverine
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoba. Canada
Now that I have had time to review the pictures of the non-heavy barrel unit you have pictured the F/A Connector Arm IS included in that photo, unless I am mistaken:
If you have an arm only please let me know if I can purchase it without having to buy a kit to simply roll over or part out the rest of the kit (because I already have everything else now and not interested in yet another m14/m1a/m305 platform)
E-mail Ryan at sales and he should be able to help you out on Monday. We have a handful of odd parts.
Mr Wolverine
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoba. Canada
We did a "stock adjust", the heavies were sold off and we did an exact count of the light barrels which increased the quantity. With quantities like this we often hold a couple back in case of a miscount or error, just to cover ourselves.
ThatM305Guy
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- North Texas
It would be really cool to have the FA arm on the rifle for appearances, but do they even fit on standard M1A stocks? Or is it just GI stocks?
banshee_biker
New member
- Location
- Alberta Rockies
The stocks shipped with these do have the cut-out already. I see you can buy "Fake" FA non functioning switch. That would be sweet, I wonder if they are available up here.
FALover
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- close to the waters edge
The connector fits on the FA select switch.
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I've been doing a lot of research on these parts kits since the start of this thread, and have found a lot of solid information about them, including on this very forum. This is a very interesting thread about these parts kits from 2009 which was just bumped as I was writing this post.
These rifles were all hand selected from the massive inventory of M14 rifles given to Israel by the United States around the time of the Yom Kippur War:
From that source, which is reliable, only 28% of the 35,000 M14s given to Israel were hand selected for service by IMI, with the majority being broken down for parts. In the past, many of the parts kits exported from Israel were not issued parts, and were instead comprised of rejected parts from their inventory. The 28% of selected rifles were all above average in accuracy for the platform, and many of them were actual national match grade rifles pressed into service, though their receivers would have played a large role in their overall precision.
About 600 parts kits derived from service rifles were imported back into the U.S. by Springfield Armory for a special run of M1As produced in 1999. Since that time U.S. laws changed, preventing further importation of these rifles even in kit form.
These are actual U.S.G.I. fiberglass stocks which were heavily modified with the added cheek rest. The cheek rest is very high due to the scope mounts which were used, resulting in the inability to use iron sights with them in place.
Overall it would appear that these kits represented the cream of the M14 parts supply at a time when they were still plentiful. I'm surprised there are any left at this price after 24 hours.
These rifles were all hand selected from the massive inventory of M14 rifles given to Israel by the United States around the time of the Yom Kippur War:
From that source, which is reliable, only 28% of the 35,000 M14s given to Israel were hand selected for service by IMI, with the majority being broken down for parts. In the past, many of the parts kits exported from Israel were not issued parts, and were instead comprised of rejected parts from their inventory. The 28% of selected rifles were all above average in accuracy for the platform, and many of them were actual national match grade rifles pressed into service, though their receivers would have played a large role in their overall precision.
About 600 parts kits derived from service rifles were imported back into the U.S. by Springfield Armory for a special run of M1As produced in 1999. Since that time U.S. laws changed, preventing further importation of these rifles even in kit form.
These are actual U.S.G.I. fiberglass stocks which were heavily modified with the added cheek rest. The cheek rest is very high due to the scope mounts which were used, resulting in the inability to use iron sights with them in place.
Overall it would appear that these kits represented the cream of the M14 parts supply at a time when they were still plentiful. I'm surprised there are any left at this price after 24 hours.
klaus enuff
CGN frequent flyer
These kits are the kind of items that don't come around often. Thanks Wolverine, can't wait to get my kits.
Crewe
Member
- Location
- St. John's, NL
The stocks in these kits alone are almost worth the parts kit! I'm seeing posts from 2005 where people are asking $400.00 US for one! Seems to be rare when they're not coated in some grip coating SAI put on them as well. I get more excited the more time I spend on google!
ThatM305Guy
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- North Texas
Really excited. I'm hoping there are one or two left by the time I'm able to scrape together some more funds
- Location
- Ontari Ari Oh
Could someone post a picture of what the exact heavy barrel profile looks like that came with these kits?
Does anyone know who manufactured these?
Please and Thank You.
Does anyone know who manufactured these?
Please and Thank You.
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Aniest
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Edmonton, Old Wholesale Sports
Thank you good sir: the email is sent and in the queue for Ryan to handle Monday.
I am happy to have the opportunity to fill the void in the side of the old USGI stock I have as I already have the fake selector switch that I picked up from Brownell's a long time ago. This really is an awesome opportunity for those people getting these kits to mock up a piece of history still being used in the world.
Good luck to those reassembling them!
banshee_biker
New member
- Location
- Alberta Rockies
The pic shows the front half of the receiver still attached to the barrel. Rear half unfortunately not permitted import. looks like you have half a paperweight.
I've been doing a lot of research on these parts kits since the start of this thread, and have found a lot of solid information about them, including on this very forum. This is a very interesting thread about these parts kits from 2009 which was just bumped as I was writing this post.
These rifles were all hand selected from the massive inventory of M14 rifles given to Israel by the United States around the time of the Yom Kippur War:
From that source, which is reliable, only 28% of the 35,000 M14s given to Israel were hand selected for service by IMI, with the majority being broken down for parts. In the past, many of the parts kits exported from Israel were not issued parts, and were instead comprised of rejected parts from their inventory. The 28% of selected rifles were all above average in accuracy for the platform, and many of them were actual national match grade rifles pressed into service, though their receivers would have played a large role in their overall precision.
About 600 parts kits derived from service rifles were imported back into the U.S. by Springfield Armory for a special run of M1As produced in 1999. Since that time U.S. laws changed, preventing further importation of these rifles even in kit form.
These are actual U.S.G.I. fiberglass stocks which were heavily modified with the added cheek rest. The cheek rest is very high due to the scope mounts which were used, resulting in the inability to use iron sights with them in place.
Overall it would appear that these kits represented the cream of the M14 parts supply at a time when they were still plentiful. I'm surprised there are any left at this price after 24 hours.
does it at any time say if the surplus m14s were re-assembled into m14s and shipped out in that first sea-can we got from Israel back in the 90's- i'm having a hard time believing that all those rifles were sniper rifles
