do you have an unmarked norinco receiver?

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So with the thread about the A.R. Sales receiver the other day, a discussion started amongst my friends down here on the coast about "rare" M14 semi auto receivers. Of which, I have what I consider an incomplete collection :(
Anyhow, this isn't a want to buy rare receiver thread so I'll get on with it.

I have a few unmarked, virgin receivers that are unmistakebly chinese. Different verified this some time ago in a past discussion about my possible "lunch pail" springer receiver. Glad I got that one back from Tomochan :D

Anyhow, we want to know how rare are these receivers anyways? I know Vulcan has had a few across his bench for custom heel egravings, and I've sold one or two along the road.

I'm contemplating building one or two rifles on a couple of them but a hesitant as too me they are quite collectable LOL
So, if yours has only the number below the stock line and is one of those perfectly machined, unmarked receivers, let's hear about it :)

Heck how bout any rare oddball receivers?
 
I have one. It had a VERY light serial number on the back left side of the heel until Nick filed it smooth. It's not 'beautifully' machined though. There are some imperfections. The line above the chamber isn't really finished nicely and there is some discoloration in the finish that won't go away. It's definitely not as nice as my 2011 receiver that I bought off some dude claiming to be a doctor.

Mine was identified as a century arms import and has a receiver manufacture date of 1990 according to Different.
 
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I've got 7 of them still , these ones are virgin , as in never built on and not for sale.
I know the history on them, was just curious if others have come across them.
I've sold a couple rifles built on the other 2 I used to have. These ones are nice and smooth with a usgi type parkerizing.
 
Metalleurgy results show it to be a cast receiver.
Dimensionally damn near perfect
Finiish, darn near usgi in machining and parkerizing
In a discusssion on this receiver with the author of the ongoing M14 History and Development (CGN member ) different, he mentioned receivers from springfield that walked off the production floor in the lunch pails of employees LOL
It is , after the metalleurgy result showed it to be cast, quite possibly a very early , lunch pail receiver.
However..... Someone in canada registered it as a norinco way back when the LGR came to be.
It has no evidence the "evil bits" were ever part of it and it has stock bearing receiver geometry identical to the semi auto receivers stateside.
So an M1A it must be...... But who really knows eh?
It's oddball that's for sure
 
I have forty of the unmarked Norinco receivers in the Chinese receiver data base. These receivers were manufactured in September 1990 or August 1991. The importer was Century Arms International (then Montreal and St. Albans). Somewhere between China and the United States, some of the receivers imported into the United States were marked above the stock line with the same "lotto" numbers factory stamped below the stock line. The importer information was stamped on the barrel between the gas cylinder and the front sight.
 
I have a "lotto" stamped m14. Here are a few pictures BBCode (message boards & forums)
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I have three complete guns that I got from Lever Arms when Al first imported them No receiver markings, just a serial number
on the side of the receiver. Box said Norinco, but gun didn't say it
 
Here's mine that I am curious if anyone knows its background.
Sorry for the lame picture, but it's heel stamped

M14 Sporter
Norinco China
C.A.I. St.Alb VT

 
I have one that is machined quite nicely, the heel of the receiver is blank. On the left side of the receiver, to the left of the scope mount screw hole, it has the Norinco emblem with NORINCO in the middle of it marking, then says model 305. Next to that it says "MADE in P.P. OF CHINA"
However this one looks totally different machining wise from all my other ones. I'll have to check them out and look at the others to see. - found another one with no markings, except a low 4 digit serial number on the lower left side of receiver. similar machining as the other one.
 
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the ones I have do not have ANY markings or numbers whatsoever save for the numbers under the stock line on left side.
gonna do my last couple builds and won't be needing them all so watch the EE for the remainders ;)
 
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