Show me your built M14

Here's what I have now.

This one is a build in progress. It's an LRB M25 with all GI parts. I bought the barrel but am waiting on it to be made. All I need now is to send it to Jon Wolfe when he has the barrel. It will eventually go into a SAGE chassis. I would have liked to have dropped it into a Blackfeather, but the barrel contour won't work with a standard or heavy operating rod guide (Proprietary barrel contour and ORG).


Here's my LRB M14SA. It was my first M14 and I wanted it to be a service rifle match gun. I finally shot my first match with it this weekend.
Receiver- LRB M14SA (barrelled by Ted Brown)
Barrel- Criterion 22" 1:12" twist chrome moly Saco-Lowell reproduction medium weight NM barrel (TFL group buy from a few years ago and TFL stamped). Headspace currently at 1.6315".
Bolt- TRW
Op-rod-SEI, fitted and installed by me
Gas cylinder- SEI, unitized by Cepilot (Mike Harlow)
Gas piston- GI
Trigger group- H&R all-GI trigger group
Flash suppressor- GI NM reamed by Ted Brown
Stock-Carbon-graphite-kevlar stock from Hueygunner, bedded by me with Marine-Tex
Scope mount- Bassett low Picatinny
Rings- Burriss Zee rings, Medium, lapped and aligned by me.
Scope- Zeiss Conquest 3-9x50 with Rapid-Z 600 reticle (bought off a friend who used to work for Zeiss)
Cheek rest- Bradley adjustable cheek rest
Spring guide- Sadlak NM spring guide
Rear sights- SEI NM sights
Handguard- GI, free-floated and bottom edges cleared by me




The rifle on the bottom is my standard M1A made in 1994. It's going to be my Blackfeather project.


Tony.
 
M21a5

Fitting the medium heavy Crazy Horse M21A5 barrel into a vintage full length SAGE EBR chassis took some work.
I used an assortment of hand files to modify the hand guard just enough to clear the barrel.

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I had Smith Enterprise fit the SAGE op rod guide block to their barrel. SEI barrels have a proprietary contour.
My SEI sound suppressor was upgraded to Wind Talker specifications at the same time.

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So here she is;

2013 M305
M1A Walnut stock
M14.ca scope mount
M14.ca match spring guild
and tightened the guts up (with a little help)

Im going to replace the flash suppressor with a USGI and I will probably call this one done! I really want to tinker with a tight Springfield:)

Using a cheap scope until I upgrade but I didn't dare show off the girl with it on lol

 
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Nice looking rifle Nate.308! Does it lock up tight in the stock? Just wondering because my buddies M1A was loose in his factory stock?
Rodney

The stock fits very snug! It slipped in no trouble, and theres no play. If you hold the rifle in one hand and tap it with the other she hums like a tunning fork :)
 
Nice looking rifle Nate.308! Does it lock up tight in the stock? Just wondering because my buddies M1A was loose in his factory stock?
Rodney

The stock fits very snug! It slipped in no trouble, and theres no play. If you hold the rifle in one hand and tap it with the other she hums like a tunning fork :)
 
nice paint job, info on the paint job

Paint job was via 3-stage paint. First was basic sand colour. I then added decals that I cut out of various "digi" shapes. I then re-sprayed with green and then did another layer of "digi-decals" and applied the brown. Between each coat I waited 24hrs for drying time. At the end all the decals were peeled off.

The digi-decals were made by taping a sheet of wax-paper (8.5x11") with painters tape on each side. I used the widest possible painters tape and had minimal overlap. This then allowed me to run it through the printer. I printed off digi-camo patterns and then cut them out with an xacto knife. This gave me two decals each time I cut one out. Just use the knife to separate the two.

After all this work I have decided to put it in a Blackfeather RS stock (currently in the mail).
This was the final product:


Stats:

- 2009 Norinco Receiver (the only Norc part on it!)
- Fulton Armoury Gen II complete bolt (lugs were lapped and have 100% contact)
- Fulton Armoury Op-Rod (tab lapped super tight!)
- Criterion 18.5" Barrel (USGI contour) brand spakin' new
- SEI Good Iron Navy/Coast Guard muzzle break
- SAI NM front sight (scout/tall)
- USGI Rear sight
- USGI gas system
- Sadlak NM grooved gas piston (Titanium nitride coated)
- Fulton op-rod guide
- Sadlak NM op-rod spring guide
- USGI op-rod spring
- USGI Trigger assembly (TRW,HRA and SA mix)
- Sadlak magazine catch
- Smith Enterprise bolt release
- USGI stock with cutout filled, fiberglass reinforced front, rubber recoil pad and devcon bedded for 100% contact - Painted by myself.
- TacPro cheek riser
- ARMS #18 mount, ARMS #22 rings
- Leupold Mark 4 MR/T 2.5-8x36mm M2 TMR Illum reticle
- All parts painted with gunkote matte black


Filling of the USGI selector cut - I am sure others can do a much better job. I'm a total noob.



Base layer of paint:


Digit-decals post printing:


Adding decals:




 
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