M14 Bayonet Lug - Just curious... Yes or NO?

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I cut my teeth on real M14's first and foremost long before the 1994 Bill Clinton initiated Assault Weapon Ban. I'm a bit of a bayonet lug crazy. So when I bought my few Norinco M14's, I was :( disappointed after I discovered that the flash suppressors had the neutered flash suppressors welded on.

Over the years, I've learned (Navyshooter schooled me some more) that the flash hiders CAN be knocked off inside 5 minutes :D And now all I had to do was find a source for flash suppressors with bayonet lugs. That search has been way more miss than hit.

Sometimes I found some from the EE Forums here when M1A owners were changing out their USGI flash suppressors for other design muzzle brakes and I was approached to make the swap for them. So I ended up buying them that way. They seem to be super hard to import from the USA, and they are subject to ITAR rules, and that is illegal to circumvent. :( End of my search south of the border. So let's not even discuss that method of sourcing them from the USA, unless you go through all the paperwork at Brownells for example.

What say you... M14 lovers/owners/collectors out there? Are you hung up on the bayonet lug's presence ? Do you need therapy like me? LOL

:cheers:
Barney
 
Would definitely be nice to have a source for GI type flash hiders with bayonet lugs.
 
Gave up looking . Made my own by welding a block to the bottom & filing the grooves in it . Didn't need it for a bayonet though .
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cheaperthandirt.com is the place where you can find it, and there is other place else you can find by google. however, both of them are from the states. the cost is about
$40 -&60. good luck!
 
The photo posted recently of the newest 2009 version of Norinco to be imported had a FH with bayonet lug. Receiver still had the US import markings, so maybe they have finally run out of US pattern barrels with welded lugless FHs.
The 14s they were making for military sales had lugs. Maybe the newest rifles have these FHs on them.
 
yea, i'd admit to being a lug freak- it's the very first thing i notice when i spot an m-14- i'd still love to see an in-country source for them, but some wet blanket always points out that the current bayonet is the m7/m9 and m6s are hard to come by- even the eikhorn ones- what i'd like to do would be a m14 in each of the variants- including the m15,and the one with the starlight scope and the long can
 
I have one of the original Norcs with the lug. How hard would it be to CNC a few here in Canada or have a good welder add a lug? Duplicating one on my Bridegport and South Bend would take me too much time.

I always hated the lug castration. WHY?

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Aside from collecting & ceremony, I can't find a good reason to put one on. It adds weight and the bayonet has long since lost its practical usefulness. Sorry. Frankly, that flash hider has to go too. :) The best setup is a shortened M14 with a hooded front sight and FH/Comp combo, like a YHM Phantom or a Vortex. It's not about looks, these FH's/Comp's really work to reduce muzzle climb and flash. The performance of the stock Norinco FH isn't that great and it isn't a comp either. FWIW.
 
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It's interesting, I just examined a Norinco M14 that has an original Norinco flash hider with the bayonet lug on it. Can't quite figure it out. It's a parked gun, not like one of the old blued ones, but it has bayo lug and the hider isn't welded on. I tried an M14 bayonet on it, it clicks on and locks but the tolerances are sloppy in that Chinese way we've all grown to so admire...:mad:
Best guess- it was sold before 1992...but it's not blued??

The hider isn't as straight and good looking as a USGI one, but it'll have to do.
Yes, I do prefer to see them with bayo lug on.

Ah! Post 12 is it exactly.
 
rdelliott: I hear you about a reliable source for bayonet lugged flash suppressors. EE Forums are your best bet.

I mentioned before, if you have a buddy with an M1A... convince them that the Smith Muzzle break is necessary otherwise their #### may fall off. Then you conveniently offer to buy their USGI sourced flash suppressor that Sproingfield assembled their M1A's with around 20 to 10 years ago. :evil:

Maybe one of the local dealers here might be reading this post for a badly needed source of locally made repro flash suppressors. And yes I do like the look of the chopped M14 sporting a 'reamed' out AR15A2 flash hider... ;)

Whatever will float yer boat!

:cheers:

Barney
 
Like others, I am a "lug nut". I want all my milsurp/black/green rifles to be able to mount their original bayonet. Just 'cuz!

I managed to get a USGI flash suppressor with lug through the good offices of 45ACPKing/M-14Doctor, but they are getting harder and harder to get.

If you are shortening, scoping and hot-rodding, there is not much point. But if you are putting it in a Boyds or USGI stock, you might as well have one that looks as authentic as possible. (I am even toying with the idea of a dummy selector for mine).
 
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