I have been on the norinco website, but cant find any info on age of rifle, when it was made etc, i assume you get it from the serial number but nothing on the site. I found age of my rapid7 from he theoben website from the serial, thought maybe others did the same.
Age of Norinco M14
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This is an article from one of our member South of the border (H2Oman) he has lot of experience and info on the Norinco M14s
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2007/10/06/history-of-the-chinese-m14-clones/
Different (another member in the States) has done tremendous amount of research on it as well link here:
http://www.m14tfl.com/upload/showthread.php?t=10015
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2007/10/06/history-of-the-chinese-m14-clones/
Different (another member in the States) has done tremendous amount of research on it as well link here:
http://www.m14tfl.com/upload/showthread.php?t=10015
I find it ironic that the people with the most experience are people who don't have access to very many.
Lee Enfield
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I think that they were originally imported to Canada and the US at the same time. We've also had Norinco's & PolyTechs since the 80's~ but they didn't reach the heights of popularity they did in the US because at the same time, we were getting Springfields, Winchesters, H&Rs, and TRWs, for the same (and less money).
It wasn't until real M-14s became restricted, then prohibited, that there was any real interest in Chinese M-14s in Canada. This corresponded to @the same point in time that Chinese M-14s were banned from import to the US.
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yah, imagine if the states where open to the chinese arms market...we'd be ####ed, but maybe the us/canadian made stuff would be cheaper...?
I got my m14 a few weeks back, just wondered if it was actually a 2010 or some old one sitting around in the shop.
saskgunowner101
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i'm going to step out on a limb and say that the ones with the bayonet lugs and the plastic stocks are probably the latest, the ones with the milled off flash hiders and the chu woods are earlier, and the ones with the ground off scope mount hole are probably the earliest- there's very few of those around, but those are also the ones with headspace problems and soft bolts- although i have one, and it has NO SUCH problems
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BattleRife
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Chinese M14s have been trickling into Canada for 20 years now and there are definitely more than 3 variants. The oldest ones (so far as I know) are easily identified as they have no markings, not even a serial number.
so there was no hole in the port side ?- even the original 14s( trw, h&r, springfield and winchester) had a drilled and tapped hole for a scope mount along with some mating surfaces- is it possible yours was ground off like mine was, but more extensively?- like as in to remove all traces of a scope mount- when you strip my old guy, you can see were the old fire control parts were, and the bayonet lug was ground off- it still has the trip on the trigger group, but there's nothing to mate it to on the receiver- but the f/a takedown notch is still there- i got mine in jan of 88- 350 bucks- alan lever
Most of the Chinese M14 receivers with a rear operating rod dismount notch will have "lotto" numbers stamped on the left side of the receiver hidden by the stock. These numbers are a date code for when the receiver was manufactured.
