Norinco m14... worth it or not?
- Thread starter Mandown!
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ipscgraz
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Didn't mean to offend,....... no need to get snarly.
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Please don't think I was reacting negatively, especially to you.
I have to go back to my posts and see if I said something confrontational.I am still a little wound up about having to chop the barrel on this one to get rid of the 200 MOA sighting misalignment but I like that rifle now with a Dlask gas lock front sight. Was worth the extra $100 or so (plus another $100 or so for a muzzle break) and I got another one chopped as well.
Yes the FH was welded and cracked in the removal process. And you can see a piece of steel sticking into the bore. Another item that convinced me to do the chop before firing the first round.
RememberTheSomme
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Please don't think I was reacting negatively, especially to you.
I am still a little wound up about having to chop the barrel on this one to get rid of the 200 MOA sighting misalignment but I like that rifle now with a Dlask gas lock front sight. Was worth the extra $100 or so (plus another $100 or so for a muzzle break) and I got another one chopped as well.
Yes the FH was welded and cracked in the removal process. And you can see a piece of steel sticking into the bore. Another item that convinced me to do the chop before firing the first round.
Alls good IPSC.
My flash hider has similar dimensional defects, although not quite as pronounced as the one you pictured.
I just got a castlenut wrench from Hungry, so when I get it off, I'll know for sure if my barrel is slightly out of time or if it's the FH.
Cheers.
I dunno. I've seen more posts lately about some quality issues than I have since I joined. Looks to me like some folks got some Friday afternoon and Monday morning specials. I hand picked my rifle from an assortment of 3 back in '09.
No problems with it, front sight fork straight, bolt and headspace were good, op rod was good.
In others words, a very good shooter.
No problems with it, front sight fork straight, bolt and headspace were good, op rod was good.
In others words, a very good shooter.
Rocket Surgery
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I have three; two have been cut down to 18.5"
I wouldn't buy another unless I could see it before I bought it. Cuts down on surprises like this when you open the box
That looks a lot like mine, canted about 10 degrees to the right. Good thing I got a USGI spec one for $25 bux! (but $28 shipping lol)
Starting to think Johnone's claim that the marstar rifles were the best of what china had availlable LOL. It DOES appear that QC issues have been far more pronounce with recent imports. Not really seeing that on the bench, but reading all the posts on the internet... I dunno. Still a fantastic deal and with all the support round here, shouldn't be hard to massage one into a good shooter if yer handy
Can you still get em in walnut?
Starting to think Johnone's claim that the marstar rifles were the best of what china had availlable LOL. It DOES appear that QC issues have been far more pronounce with recent imports. Not really seeing that on the bench, but reading all the posts on the internet... I dunno. Still a fantastic deal and with all the support round here, shouldn't be hard to massage one into a good shooter if yer handy
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The chinese never where available in walnut, used to be "mystery" wood (def not walnut), now seems mostly synthetic.
They might of been getting it from india or europe i bought one back in 03 when they were $700 then i ordered a walnut handguard from springfield [the maker of m14s/m1as] for a m14 you couldn't tell the difference between the two.i should of never sold it but the shorty is very interesting to me.
Early chinese m14 rifles were in fact known to come with a mix of hard woods, including walnut and birch and of course the not very hard mystery wood. Very tough to find and while resemble a usgi wood stock in all the key areas, have slightly different lines. I've had a couple standard norinco stocks from early imports that were a very attractive, reddish, tiger walnut.
You can always source a quality wood stock from Boyd's. Watch for their frequent sales on unfinished walnut stocks. Then stain and oil and swap over the metal bits from the chinese plastic stock.
A great many CGN'ers have gone this extremely affordable, do it yerself route. Most seem to get a great deal of personal satisfaction and pride in their finished project... And rightly so, the boyd's stocks bring a classic look and feel to the m14/m1a platform.
Mine did have a redish color to it it had a lot of machine marks though i had to take it off and redo it it finish up nice.
I will look into that.I also found a BM59 folding stock set which is a m1 modded but not sure if it could be converted to m14 most likely not.
if it was a straight bm59 stock, it is possible- however, if it's been modded for a garand, you'll find that you have to replace a lot of meat in the magwell area, and it puts the trigger assembly too far to the rear- ie it's out by that same half inch or more difference between the garand and the m14- i have the m14 verson of the bm59 stock, and that has slight mods to it- ie the hole at the rear of the reciever where the fun switch goes- and it's slightly longer in the mag well-
Rocket Surgery
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I was going to do this myself but i have small man hands and the boyds was too big kind of like the truck i want to get to compensate
I will have to ask them that ? if it is for a M1 OR M14 convertion.thanks
Not to hijack this post but we can see there is many way you may be able to go with a M14.
Not to hijack this post but we can see there is many way you may be able to go with a M14.
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