would you like Norinco to make a Garand repro?

would you purchase a M1 Garand if Norinco would market it?

  • YES, I like the M14 and therefor I'd get a Garand too

    Votes: 105 63.3%

  • I really don't care about them. M14 is a superior design and already in production

    Votes: 10 6.0%

  • NO, it would be a blasphemy and I doubt they'd get the same tooling anyways.

    Votes: 51 30.7%
  • Total voters
    166
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If Norinco would keep the tolerances they make the M14 by, I'd personally like to have one. I know is not something special for collectors, but the aura of the ol' gal would atract me.....
The price on M1 Garand is spiking lately....

Would you like to see this one comig true?
 
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It depends on what you want. Do you want a Chinese Garand, or a USGI one? If it follows the same track as the M14, call the msrp $399- (prolly end up costing more), now replace the stock, bolt, and all the other bits with USGI like the M14 guys do to get a decent rifle and you end up at the same price or likely more than the real thing. As a bonus you get to do Norinco's product testing for a few years while they work the bugs out as they've had to with all their stuff. M14s I can see on account of the prohib factor, but knocking off an icon like an M1 is just wrong. I suppose if somebody specifically wants a Chinese one, fine, but given the choice, prices ending up being equal, I doubt anybody would be tripping over each other to grab the commie version.
 
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I would like Norinco to fine-tune their quality control, make more M-305 AND streamline their shipping&handling so we don't have to wait in line, money in hand, for a new arrival. This is beginning to get old.:confused:
If they can make a really good copy of a late Breda or Beretta, maybe, I'd be tempted, anyway...:p
PP.
 
a full stock goes for about 79$.
Is there anything else to change?

Don't forget that M14 are modified until they reach space-age look-a-like, not necesarily a functionality issue.
I hunted with the M305 right out of the box, and now.... many mods after... I still have the same rifle.... only heavier.
 
Tooling up to make an M-1 would be a major undertaking. Unless the US market is open, there is no chance that it is going to happen. The QC issue is real. Don't take the $399 retail for 305s as an indication of what a M-1 might sell for. Are the 305s actually being manufactured at present, or are they being assembled from parts in inventory? The markings on many receivers, and the welded on, lugless flashiders suggest that these parts were made some time ago for sale in the US.
 
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Tooling up to make an M-1 would be a major undertaking. Unless the US market is open, there is no chance that it is going to happen. The QC issue is real. Don't take the $399 retail for 305s as an indication of what a M-1 might sell for. Are the 305s actually being manufactured at present, or are they being assembled from parts in inventory? The markings on many receivers, and the welded on, lugless flashiders suggest that these parts were made some time ago for sale in the US.
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I concur about the older parts. CJA, alias China Jin An, went TU back in the 90s when the Central Commitee of the Party decided that the General Staffs of the various services (PAP in the case of CJA) making money for themselves using the people's factories was not a good thing. The Clinton bans also sealed the fate of perhaps thousands of M305 receivers, now sold off where ever possible.

The lugless and slotless flash hiders are a dead giveaway that the rifles were intended for the US market to comply with the provisions the "assault" rifle ban in place in America at the time.

The PAP still raises hard Canadian currency (and others) for it's official use by selling "health" supplements and the odd SKS to Bell Distributing
 
hey what quality control? Besides the stock which needs replacing everything else is fine on the rinco.

Also, getting a rinco and making it spaceaged is still cheaper than buying a m1a and updating that.

There are also a whole SLEW of problems with the springfields.
 
What does an M1a have to do with a $400-$800 USGI or Italian BATTLE PROVEN rifle with no qc issues since '45 or so?
This whole thing is kind of silly, Norc hasn't made one, we don't know what the price would be, and real Garands are out there and fairly easy to get. If they were prohib, I could see a good loophole for a knock off but they aren't. If USGI M14s by Winchester etc, weren't prohib, I doubt anyone would bother with the Norcs. Kinda the same with the M1, only they made around 7 million of them.
 
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