KurtM
Member
Ok we have beat the crap out of mini 14s, but who here likes the grand daddy of that abomination? (Your mileage may vary 
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It was my pleasure to have one almost all the way through my days with Mother Green. Except for boot camp and my first billet in the 3 26th Amphib I always had one. I liked it so much I bought my own in 1978, a Springfield Armory made with almost all GI parts. That rifle had an H&R barrel that was absolute crap. As I grew I did a 6 month TAD with the 22nd AMU as an armorers assistant. I learned all sorts of things on how to accurize that system. Needless to say that knowledge followed me home and I have done lots of things to mine and it is 1 moa capable out to 600. It is on its 3rd barrel after the H&R crap box. I have noticed that accuracy of SA rifles is kind of hit and miss, kind of like issue rifles and M-80 ball is pretty crappy ammo. Most of them shoot ok with Special Ball, or Federal match. Most all of them benefit from a little down tension bedding and a unitized gas system. I have never seen a good mount to put a scope on one, but as an iron sight rifle I feel that there are non better... So who else here has a soft spot in their heart (or possibly head... like me) for the good old M-14?
).It was my pleasure to have one almost all the way through my days with Mother Green. Except for boot camp and my first billet in the 3 26th Amphib I always had one. I liked it so much I bought my own in 1978, a Springfield Armory made with almost all GI parts. That rifle had an H&R barrel that was absolute crap. As I grew I did a 6 month TAD with the 22nd AMU as an armorers assistant. I learned all sorts of things on how to accurize that system. Needless to say that knowledge followed me home and I have done lots of things to mine and it is 1 moa capable out to 600. It is on its 3rd barrel after the H&R crap box. I have noticed that accuracy of SA rifles is kind of hit and miss, kind of like issue rifles and M-80 ball is pretty crappy ammo. Most of them shoot ok with Special Ball, or Federal match. Most all of them benefit from a little down tension bedding and a unitized gas system. I have never seen a good mount to put a scope on one, but as an iron sight rifle I feel that there are non better... So who else here has a soft spot in their heart (or possibly head... like me) for the good old M-14?
