M14s in 7.62x39 coming to Canada?

EHG said:
Getting it to cycle reliably with various powders/burn speed and gas port sizes becomes the greatest challenge.
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Could one not thread the gas port to accept plugs with different port sizes thus allowing for tuning to different powder/burn rates?

Just a thought.

M
 
Spcamno said:
Schuster offer adjustable M1A gas plug for both imperial and metric thread for M1A or Norinco around $60 USD
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Not the same concept.

The Schuster is slaved to the in situ barrel gas port size and vents through the piston plug. Had one, and it didn't work all that well. Ditched it.

I'm talking a tuneable gas port at the source I.E. the barrel.

M
 
gnmontey said:
Not the same concept.

The Schuster is slaved to the in situ barrel gas port size and vents through the piston plug. Had one, and it didn't work all that well. Ditched it.

I'm talking a tuneable gas port at the source I.E. the barrel.

M
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I've thought about that too. best I could come up with is an adjustable screw device in place of the gas shut off, would keep the cylinder cleaner longer as well, but I'm not a machinist.
 
1-trident-1 said:
I've thought about that too. best I could come up with is an adjustable screw device in place of the gas shut off, would keep the cylinder cleaner longer as well, but I'm not a machinist.
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I'm not talking on the fly adjustable here.

I'm thinking nothing more than an over sized set screw that can be drilled through for what ever port size needed.

Why not?

M
 
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What would be ideal is if someone had the tooling to make a one-off barrel or 2 to test gas port sizes for reliable function before getting a run of barrels made so as to not need any sort of adjustable gas vent. I mean it shouldn't be that complicated. For testing purposes all you'd need is a straight profiled barrel. No need for the notches for the hand guard retainer clip or the machined slots and threading for the flash hider. Conversely, I wonder if one could simply make different weight/volume pistons for testing purposes or different gas plugs ( like the lower volume one specific to the 16" barrelled M1As)?
 
what the hell happened in here? M305 in 7.62 x 39 ??? please god no LOL
243win, 7mm 08, 6.5creedmore , .260rem , .338 fed...... ya okay.... but 7.62x39?

I've got an sks- D for that LOL
 
I'm not sure how I feel about a M-305 in x39..... I'll probably have to pick one up in any case!

As far as an adjustable plug goes..... my hunting M14 has 2 plugs, one is "as issued", the other has a .040" hole drilled in the end. With the hole it won't cycle NATO ammo or Fed blue box. But it does cycle hot handloads with out any issues.

John
 
I don't hate the idea but....

If it came optics-ready and the price was right I'd be interested. But here's the "but" - it's not the easiest platform to strip and clean after shooting cheap corrosive surplus ammo. And for me the biggest reason to own one would be because of the availability of cheap surplus corrosive ammo.

And I think I'd let other people try them out for a year or so before I got one, because remember the early .223 chambered CSA 58s? They broke faster than they could be fixed. Buying a rifle that breaks first time out and then waiting 6 months for it to be fixed isn't a big attraction. We hope the M305 7.62x39 would be tested a bit better than that.
 
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At the end of the day you still have a rifle that's mag only holds five rounds. Criterion makes a .35 Whelen G.I. profile barrel for the Garand. That sounds like fun. If Norinco is tooling up to build M-14's, why can't they just sell us the damned receivers?
 
Anyone interested in M14/M305s in .303, using No. 1 Mk III magazines?

Besides the Globco M555, an SVT40 converted (poorly) to .303, there has never been a semi-auto rifle in .303.

Also, if it used No. 1 Mk III magazines, the option of a twenty round magazine would be there if someone made new production trench magazines.
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