RememberTheSomme
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Just got through reading a revisited thread on Norinco quality and the last post wondering if the OP had his rifle blow up and kill him or not,.. and looking to the future I got to thinking..........
............I've been on this board since 2010, and this board has operated mainly on the questions and experiences of Norinco M-14 owners.
There is a bit of input from owners of M1a's and LRB's, but they seem so few and far between,..most of information shared has been from the Chincom rifle.
While these ChinCom discussions have been the brunt of many jokes and jeers by some owners of US made rifles and their tag along wannabe's, I've personally learned alot about the platform, and learned it all on a Canadian site, from Canadian's, with our own experiences, perspectives and questions pertinent to rifles sold in real time in our country. An invaluable data base. I've seen each generation become experienced with the M-14, matured and then passed their knowledge and experience on to newer Chincom shooters, and then fade away in the sunset. Just like most anything in life really.
So what now for the Battle Rifle Forum?
It appears that ChinCom receivers are all but done. Some in the know have said if forgings started again, and this is probably not going to happen,.... you may see a 50%-100% increase in price.
"Yea buddy but I can still get the M1a so all's good right?" You sure can,..just expect to pay even more for it in the future. Remember how hard it was to save 2500, and how all you had in the end was a Desk Top image to admire?
The Norinco M-14 actually kept the M1A prices in check, just like the Nork CQ-a and the NEA-15 helped keep stratospheric climbing US made AR prices in reality for us for a few years now.
You won't see "like new" Norinco M-14s selling for 350-400 shipped either, if you've been one laughing on the fence these past few years, they are starting to climb on the EE already. Great working rigs like my 2009 won't be offered up on the EE mainly because the receivers are too valuable, and we can always put a 350 dollar US, or used Nork barrel on in the future to keep our addiction going.
So except for the few odd dissenters of the rifle I've seen over the past 4 years, that initially I'm sure would feel very smug indeed if the Chincom rifle was dead as being imported here, what about the Battle Rifle forum in general? Who will keep it going? If not for each new generation who buy, ask question, learn, and pass on the information regarding the 305, what would keep the forum alive? What would we post about, read about, laugh about?
Would the new threads go something like,.."I held an FN C1 once? or,.... "I remember when I used a TRW M-14 as a jack handle for my pickup for 25$? Or,..I just dumped 4 grand on my new LRB, want look at it?"
Really will that keep this alive without the Chincom Rifle being imported and sold to new shooters with all the silly questions, upgrades, accuracy improvements, clinics,. and of course any real safety concerns to balance it all out.
What does the M-14 and the Battle Rifle forum future hold for us Canucks?
............I've been on this board since 2010, and this board has operated mainly on the questions and experiences of Norinco M-14 owners.
There is a bit of input from owners of M1a's and LRB's, but they seem so few and far between,..most of information shared has been from the Chincom rifle.
While these ChinCom discussions have been the brunt of many jokes and jeers by some owners of US made rifles and their tag along wannabe's, I've personally learned alot about the platform, and learned it all on a Canadian site, from Canadian's, with our own experiences, perspectives and questions pertinent to rifles sold in real time in our country. An invaluable data base. I've seen each generation become experienced with the M-14, matured and then passed their knowledge and experience on to newer Chincom shooters, and then fade away in the sunset. Just like most anything in life really.
So what now for the Battle Rifle Forum?
It appears that ChinCom receivers are all but done. Some in the know have said if forgings started again, and this is probably not going to happen,.... you may see a 50%-100% increase in price.
"Yea buddy but I can still get the M1a so all's good right?" You sure can,..just expect to pay even more for it in the future. Remember how hard it was to save 2500, and how all you had in the end was a Desk Top image to admire?
The Norinco M-14 actually kept the M1A prices in check, just like the Nork CQ-a and the NEA-15 helped keep stratospheric climbing US made AR prices in reality for us for a few years now.
You won't see "like new" Norinco M-14s selling for 350-400 shipped either, if you've been one laughing on the fence these past few years, they are starting to climb on the EE already. Great working rigs like my 2009 won't be offered up on the EE mainly because the receivers are too valuable, and we can always put a 350 dollar US, or used Nork barrel on in the future to keep our addiction going.
So except for the few odd dissenters of the rifle I've seen over the past 4 years, that initially I'm sure would feel very smug indeed if the Chincom rifle was dead as being imported here, what about the Battle Rifle forum in general? Who will keep it going? If not for each new generation who buy, ask question, learn, and pass on the information regarding the 305, what would keep the forum alive? What would we post about, read about, laugh about?
Would the new threads go something like,.."I held an FN C1 once? or,.... "I remember when I used a TRW M-14 as a jack handle for my pickup for 25$? Or,..I just dumped 4 grand on my new LRB, want look at it?"
Really will that keep this alive without the Chincom Rifle being imported and sold to new shooters with all the silly questions, upgrades, accuracy improvements, clinics,. and of course any real safety concerns to balance it all out.
What does the M-14 and the Battle Rifle forum future hold for us Canucks?
