M305 is heavy
- Thread starter Don'tkillbill
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push ups, sit ups and some jogging, do lots of that for a month and try again....
Travis Bickle
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Upper Lower Middle Alberta
She is the last of the true battle rifles Sir.
A final production standing alone at the end of a long proud line of full powered rifles designed to be fired by true hard men.
You should be only so priveledged as to heft her 10 + pounds of weight on your lowly shoulders
I love the weight of my M14, it just feels.....right.
A final production standing alone at the end of a long proud line of full powered rifles designed to be fired by true hard men.
You should be only so priveledged as to heft her 10 + pounds of weight on your lowly shoulders
I love the weight of my M14, it just feels.....right.
Are you sure you want to turn it into a slobber knocker by taking pounds off? Besides, why mess with perfection?
I agree - few rifles feel so good.
She is the last of the true battle rifles Sir.
A final production standing alone at the end of a long proud line of full powered rifles designed to be fired by true hard men.
You should be only so priveledged as to heft her 10 + pounds of weight on your lowly shoulders
I love the weight of my M14, it just feels.....right.
I agree - few rifles feel so good.
There really isn't much, shoot with irons, use the standard weight barrel and shorten it to 18.5", ditch the flash hider and the steel butt.
Wood USGI stocks seem to be the lightest if you want cheap.
Then fiberglass USGI stocks.
M14 Doctor has probably the lightest/stiffest highest quality stocks for reasonable money or you can go to a mcann industries carbon fiber stock but they're in the 800.00 range. Mcmillans are in the 500.00 range but are the heaviest.(All Mcmillans need to be bedded.)
There appears to be a new crop of aluminum stocks around the corner but not in production yet, cost and weight have yet to be determined.
I have a scoped, Mcmillan (MFS) stocked gun I hunt with that has a medium barrel and it makes hunting with it excercise.
The general consensus around here is suck it up buttercup
One thing that does tick me off is when people compare the weight of the m14 with the AR15. The m14 isn't that much heavier than other 3.08 battle rifles and if I wanted an aluminum gun I would have bought one.
Wood USGI stocks seem to be the lightest if you want cheap.
Then fiberglass USGI stocks.
M14 Doctor has probably the lightest/stiffest highest quality stocks for reasonable money or you can go to a mcann industries carbon fiber stock but they're in the 800.00 range. Mcmillans are in the 500.00 range but are the heaviest.(All Mcmillans need to be bedded.)
There appears to be a new crop of aluminum stocks around the corner but not in production yet, cost and weight have yet to be determined.
I have a scoped, Mcmillan (MFS) stocked gun I hunt with that has a medium barrel and it makes hunting with it excercise.
The general consensus around here is suck it up buttercup
One thing that does tick me off is when people compare the weight of the m14 with the AR15. The m14 isn't that much heavier than other 3.08 battle rifles and if I wanted an aluminum gun I would have bought one.
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Travis Bickle
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Upper Lower Middle Alberta
lololol
His question was valid.
I was just having some fun.
Honestly though, there are a whole whack of light stocks and cuts and chops you can do to it.
I am not knowledgable in any of these areas.
I just dropped mine into a wood M1A stock. It did not change the weight to any degree of which I noticed.
However! Removing all the cleaning equipment from the butt stock will drop at least a pound off the overall weight. You would be surprised.
To see the difference strip the receiver and barrel out of the stock, hold it with the cleaning tools in and then remove them and feel the difference.
I prefer to shoot mine full weight, standard setup with good old iron sights in her natural form.
Cheers man!
She is the last of the true battle rifles Sir.
A final production standing alone at the end of a long proud line of full powered rifles designed to be fired by true hard men.
You should be only so priveledged as to heft her 10 + pounds of weight on your lowly shoulders
I love the weight of my M14, it just feels.....right.
Cute cartoon. I love the M14 but she's a pig to carry and shoot standing. On a shooting bench she's a beauty queen. I guess I'll have to scope her and mount her on to a Jeep
glad you like it
when i first started out with the M14 i thought she was heavy too..
hit the gym, cos the rifle isnt going to get any lighter.
I dont work out anywhere near as much as i need to, but the rifle is only about 4.5kg .. its not big business. you can do it
If an M-14 is heavy...dunno what anyone'd think about an 84mm Carl Gustav...or any of the other crew-served wpns, like the 60mm Mortar (well, not the tube, but the bombs you'd have to haul over the mountain!), C6 (M240G for Yankees and gamer-types)...
Honestly, I think some of these "tricked out" heavy barreled AR-15's with all the sights, bells and whistles, are sometimes heavier than a basic M-14 or FAL. A "203" or SPR certainly is heavier than a basic M-14.
One major trick to handling heavier wpns like this, is to make sure your feet are in a "boxing" position, for the Right-handed shooter, your left foot might be as much as a full pace forward of your right foot. This way you can balance it well on the shoulder. Soldiers do this naturally as the equipment you train with gets heavier.
Honestly, I think some of these "tricked out" heavy barreled AR-15's with all the sights, bells and whistles, are sometimes heavier than a basic M-14 or FAL. A "203" or SPR certainly is heavier than a basic M-14.
One major trick to handling heavier wpns like this, is to make sure your feet are in a "boxing" position, for the Right-handed shooter, your left foot might be as much as a full pace forward of your right foot. This way you can balance it well on the shoulder. Soldiers do this naturally as the equipment you train with gets heavier.
I've lightened my M14S. I wanted to make it into a shorter medium weight bush rifle. As Travis already suggested, I took the junk out of the trunk
and also replaced the metal butt pad with a rubber one. I don't know how heavy the plastic Norc stocks are, but the "chu" wood ones are as light as it comes. I've got a UTG see through 3-point scope mount, Leupold Compact 2-7x28mm scope, and an Allen neoprene sling on it for a total weight of 8 lbs! BTW it has the full length barrel, but I chopped the flash hider off as I don't understand why any semi-auto .308 rifle with a 22" barrel would need it, and it shortens it by 2.5" to 3". If you want an even lighter rifle, you can do a barrel chop, barrel swap, or buy the short barrel version.
