Lrb m14 parts kits3/29/2024 All USGI H&R parts on a Springfield M1A receiver.īottom is my Springfield M1A Bush model. Here's two on mine with traditional wood stocks: Early all-USGI M1As are very nice rifles! Used to be mostly USGI parts but is now commercial. Springfield Armory continues to produce an excellent M14-clone in the guise of their M1A rifle. Fulton Armory is glossy, but the quality wasn't there the last time I checked. Smith Enterprise is another top tier M14-type rifle. USGI "kits" are rare and expensive mainly because the Army started using the M14 again several years ago as a long range rifle and took back all the parts it could get it's hands on. The LRB receiver is the current darling of the M14 crowd. Plan to spend $2000 on a M14-type rifle if you want top quality. Anything past that range requires a gifted, or at least well trained shooter. With optics it can easily go reliably to 500 meters. Still a 300 meter rifle with iron sights but carries a heavier bullet out to that range well. The M14 was revived as a long range rifle officially and unofficially as far back as 1990. Most ARNG and USAR units moved from the M1 to M16 circa 1972 and skipped the M14 completely which was used in foreign military sales. Troops in Europe carried until the early 1970s. The M14 is certainly "retro" in the sense the Army trained with it until circa 1969 even though it was issuing the M16 in Vietnam.
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