180gr bullets in the M14

mike shickele

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I have a reasonably large quantity of 180gr bullets kicking around the house that I was hoping to use in my M14 with moderate loads of TAC. Ive seen hints on Nutz that some guys thing that the heavier bullets are ALWAYS hard on the op rod, is there any evidence that this is true?
Has anyone ever damaged an op rod with the heavier bullet loads?
Mike
 
i've only ever heard of the heavy bullets (165gr+) to be an issue with the socom's. mind you 180's are heavy.
hold tight. someone with the smarts will be along to assist.
 
Wrong Forum

You might get more responses if you asked the Mods to move this to the right forum.

Regards.

Mark
 
MWL said:
You might get more responses if you asked the Mods to move this to the right forum.

Regards.

Mark
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I didn't place this in the reloading section because it is not a general question, but a specific question unique to this form of rifle. I dodn't want someone who had only really loaded for a bolt gun, or a remington autoloader to start giving my misinformation.
Mike
 
mike shickele said:
I didn't place this in the reloading section because it is not a general question, but a specific question unique to this form of rifle. I dodn't want someone who had only really loaded for a bolt gun, or a remington autoloader to start giving my misinformation.
Mike
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I think he meant the battle rifle forum where they talk about the M-14 regularly
 
do a little reading up and you'll see that the 180 puts excess wear on the op-rod and certain other components- it's fairly well documented on this and other boards- and if the us army marksmanship team found that a 175 stressed the oprod , what do you think a 180 will do?- bottom line is, unless you have the sadlak piston installed, you can run the ODD BOX of 180 through, but a steady diet is going to prematurely wear the op-rod - and the sadlak piston is built for the usgi/m1a system, not the chinese
 
t-star said:
do a little reading up and you'll see that the 180 puts excess wear on the op-rod and certain other components- it's fairly well documented on this and other boards- and if the us army marksmanship team found that a 175 stressed the oprod , what do you think a 180 will do?- bottom line is, unless you have the sadlak piston installed, you can run the ODD BOX of 180 through, but a steady diet is going to prematurely wear the op-rod - and the sadlak piston is built for the usgi/m1a system, not the chinese
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t-star I am just suprized that no local Canadian manufactore "caugh.. caugh..., wink.. wink... like NEA hasn't made a Norck NM piston like the Sadlak one. Not like there are not drawings already out there.
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Satain said:
t-star I am just suprized that no local Canadian manufactore "caugh.. caugh..., wink.. wink... like NEA hasn't made a Norck NM piston like the Sadlak one. Not like there are not drawings already out there.
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i think we're going to have to DEMONSTRATE a need for one- ie COMMITTED PURCHASE-remember that their population is 10x the size of ours, and the sadlak is made for the m1a as well- i would venture to speculate that there are far more m1a's than m14s out there, so that's who it's really its aimed at- also. there's going to have to be ALTERATIONS to the drawings as m14 doctor advises that the sadlak is NOT a drop in unit to the norc gas system- al
 
I vote NEA make USGI spec gas system as well as a piston, there are drawings for both. Meaning Sadlak piston's would run no prob or any other after market piston...
 
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