What would you prefer to do to your M14?
- Thread starter slushee
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purchased my rifle from Milarm in edmonton last winter. Shot wonderfully out of the box!.Didn't expect how large the recoil was though.Manufatured my own Ar style stock using ideas posted on one of the recent threads, using3/4 inch cabinet grade plywood for the pistol grip insert on original stock as it was a good quality "japanese oak".Have purchased and installed see through 3 point Marstar mount and Bellorussian 4x80 scope,Nylon bushing and modified the stock flash hider to accept a Moisin-Nagant M44 muzzle brake.
Don't know much about MOA,(will get to it) but I'm hitting cigarrette packages at 200 yards. Total cost to me so far has been,$500 for rifle, $165 for scope,$149 scope mount,$6 nylon recoil buffer, $22 muzzle brake.
Time spent was about 25 hours over several weeks. Not what I quite want as a Laz style shortywill have to wait untill next year.
Don't know much about MOA,(will get to it) but I'm hitting cigarrette packages at 200 yards. Total cost to me so far has been,$500 for rifle, $165 for scope,$149 scope mount,$6 nylon recoil buffer, $22 muzzle brake.
Time spent was about 25 hours over several weeks. Not what I quite want as a Laz style shortywill have to wait untill next year.
Rusty Shackleford
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Bradford, Ontario
For mine I bought a Fiberglass stock, Rooster Spring Guide and a Garand rear sight. I only paid about $40 for the stock, I doubt I would have bought on at current prices. I bought the shim kit but found out later that my rifle didn't need it.
well at the moment mines full length in GI glass with SOCOMII VLTOR rails ( lower included ) with an overbarrell suppressor , but im very keen on chopping the barrell for misanthropists shorty idea
just have to find a good gunsmith here in the zealand
just have to find a good gunsmith here in the zealand
I'm backing RobSmith on this one. I'm old school, but more like WelfareStyles on the modifications. 
You see, as much fun as tweaking the boomstick can be, there will come a point in your life when you have to liquidate that project. Needless to say, the more money you sink in to the project, the less likely you are to recover that money.
After 20 years of raising 2 kids, I'm BACK to where I started with the boys.... and that is owning very few boomsticks. They were in diapers when I could only buy ONE M14 (for $ 400, Israeli Surplus, TRW all matching
) and tweak, then compete, then sell, then repeat the cycle all over again.
Now that both guys are in College/University, I'm restricted once again (been there, done that again, and again) to one or 2 rifles to do all my shooting tasks.
So that's why I'm preaching to go cheap on the M14 stuff! Yeah, they are a shztload of fun to work on and shoot, but not fun to spend hard earned after-tax dollars on...
There! My 2 cents worth!
You see, as much fun as tweaking the boomstick can be, there will come a point in your life when you have to liquidate that project. Needless to say, the more money you sink in to the project, the less likely you are to recover that money.
After 20 years of raising 2 kids, I'm BACK to where I started with the boys.... and that is owning very few boomsticks. They were in diapers when I could only buy ONE M14 (for $ 400, Israeli Surplus, TRW all matching
) and tweak, then compete, then sell, then repeat the cycle all over again.Now that both guys are in College/University, I'm restricted once again (been there, done that again, and again) to one or 2 rifles to do all my shooting tasks.
So that's why I'm preaching to go cheap on the M14 stuff! Yeah, they are a shztload of fun to work on and shoot, but not fun to spend hard earned after-tax dollars on...
There! My 2 cents worth!
well i have 2 1st m14s i bought a 2nd hand nm over sized stock that lucky for me, fits tight and i don't need to do anything for the connector pin, nm front and rear sights (will get to that*), nm op rod spring , nm oprod spring guide, shims (not needed yet) and gi flash suppressor. 2nd m14s- gi flash suppressor, gi rear sight, no shiming or anything, keeping gi, even getting a m6 bayonet to do shoot to live. talked to a marine (i think vietnam 66-68), on another sight and he told me he never heard of half the stuff we do to our rifles. so thinking about that. i or we never did anything to our old fn's in the army. we just used marksmenship. decided to keep it gi simple. the first is a toy (trying to make a chinese m21. *both rear sights out of the box didn't work.
1st m14s i bought a 2nd hand nm over sized stock that lucky for me, fits tight and i don't need to do anything for the connector pin, nm front and rear sights (will get to that*), nm op rod spring , nm oprod spring guide, shims (not needed yet) and gi flash suppressor. 2nd m14s- gi flash suppressor, gi rear sight, no shiming or anything, keeping gi, even getting a m6 bayonet to do shoot to live. talked to a marine (i think vietnam 66-68), on another sight and he told me he never heard of half the stuff we do to our rifles. so thinking about that. i or we never did anything to our old fn's in the army. we just used marksmenship. decided to keep it gi simple. the first is a toy (trying to make a chinese m21. *both rear sights out of the box didn't work.
