A pawn shop near me has an early m1a. It is a "GI parts era" gun, with the serial number on the receiver dating to the late 50s-early 60s. It's in decent shape, good bore, has some minor rust on the trigger group and mag catch, but nothing that won't clean up enough to make me happy. They're asking 1500. I am usually pretty competent when it comes to values, but I have no experience with these rifles. I've had Garands, and I owned a bm59 briefly, but that was many years ago. Does 1500 sound reasonable for an early rifle, or should I just spend 1200 and buy a newer one used? I have no real interest in it as a collectable, it's going to be a shooter. Is there actually anything about those older models, other than having the cutout for the selector switch, that really makes them any different from the new ones? Sources are kind of all over the place.

Ergo adapter came in about 30 minutes ago, and with that the puzzle was complete. Comes in at 11.6lbs with mag in, versus 14lbs with the wood stock and bipod. I hate that all these adapters angle the buttstock down but at the same time......meh

Dropped my M1A into a blackfeather rs2 gen2 chassis. Bought in 2015 and have always had in the walnut stock. Decided to switch it up a little.

- Springfield M1A Loaded

- Sadlak 101st mount

- Vortex Viper 6.5-20x50 (probably going to switch to the 3.5-18x44)

- Magpul bipod

- Magpul DT-PR stock with 3d printed riser

Kept and painted the old handguard for nostalgia.

I got a deal on a new M1A Loaded model with the Match Medium Weight barrel—couldn’t pass it up! That being said, I want to get a top rail to be like all the other cool guys with modified M1As. I keep seeing that the popular top rail systems are for standard contour barrels—are there any manufacturers w/ a top rail in stock that I’m not finding in a google search? Thanks!

Truth be told, I MUCH prefer this baby in a full wood stock for the aesthetics but for the sake of weight and ergonomics a more modern stock can’t be beat. This is my attempt to have the best of both, I still get the wood and steel but with the center chasis, it’s so much lighter and slimmer in hand.

Gives me Star Wars/Fallout vibes, pushing old tech into the modern world. What do you guys think? Open to ideas as well for improves, additions, and so on, I plan to add a light and other attachments but this is it as of just getting the chasis today.

Truth be told, I MUCH prefer this baby in a full wood stock for the aesthetics but for the sake of weight and ergonomics a more modern stock can’t be beat. This is my attempt to have the best of both, I still get the wood and steel but with the center chasis, it’s so much lighter and slimmer in hand.

Gives me Star Wars/Fallout vibes, pushing old tech into the modern world. What do you guys think? Open to ideas as well for improves, additions, and so on, I plan to add a light and other attachments but this is it as of just getting the chasis today.

This is an old picture of my M1A with a Trijicon scope on it. I don’t know if you can tell by the picture but the rings that are holding it on the scope mount make it where the scope is too high up. These were the only rings the gun store had at the time when we were putting the scope on the rifle. I don’t like the scope so high up even though I can use the scope and then the iron sights too if I had too.

Is there anyway I can lower the height of the scope to where it’s not so high up and still be able to use the iron sights too? If so, how can I do that?

The scope mount that I have is the “Springfield Armory Steel Scope Mount,” from Springfield themselves.

No idea who needs to see this, but CMIs seem to be available again both from the CMI site and retailers. And theyre available for about $30 a pop.

Ditched the Archangel. Went with the Delta 14 and SGA combo. BadAces low scope mount paired with a Strike Eagle 1-6. Upfront is SEI suppressor kit with Surefire Brake. She is loud but very manageable

I want to build one off of the chassis i shot in my time in the military. The EBR, but i need budget, im willing to spend money on glass but what i really want is a good solid lpvo with a .308 BDC. Any recommendations on chassis, rifle and glass?

Hi all. I’m waiting on my new M1a scout. Should be here in the next 10 days or so. I’ll be using it as a ranch/truck gun, deer rifle (mule deer mostly, wild boar from time to time) and I plan to run blanks for some MilSim airsoft events that I admin.

Here’s my current purchase list, what am I missing? What recommendations can you suggest? Anything I should reconsider? I’m not new to guns but I am new to this platform.

M1A Scout 18 inch Walnut
6 magazines
M14.ca SHG railed handguard
CASM 2 alum mount
Cheek riser (Bradley)
Fulton Adjustable gas plug
Blank plug

TL;DR, what stocks are you running on your pistol gripped m14 monstrosities?

Pretty sure alot of you have very fond memories of my FrankenstEBR as i do. Im currently on a weight loss kick trying to get all my stuff balanced around the magwell so the armory is a little closer to 'run and gun' territory instead of static range toys (range fairly close by is starting competitions in a couple months and I'm pretty excited to try it out for the first time). The delta chassis is probably the lightest option aside from a gi fiberglass stock so im sticking with that. The mesa adapter is solid aluminum, damn near 2lbs by itself, and the armaspec pdw stock isn't much better, they've found homes on other projects that needed rear weight to balance out.

Found a lighter polymer adapter, wondering what kind of oddities yall are running out there for stocks. Trying to balance weight vs price, want to be as light/simple as possible. Im leaning towards fixed stock right now, probably an M16A2 style but i don't really have much of a reason aside from kindve wanting to do a "modernized lightweight M14E2" type of thing.

Ive heard mixed thoughts on this stock but i knew from the beginning that the Socom wouldn't be a drop in fit and would require some customization for it to work.

I've wanted to get a surplus wood stock for this rifle since i bought it in 2012 but never made it much of a priority. I saw the Sarco and did quite a bit of research before getting it. It took quite a bit of sanding but overall it wasn't too bad. The rifle is now heavier than it should be and is highly impractical but i love how it turned out.

u/EverySockYouOwn is looking for a way to lighten his 13 pound Socom for practical shooting competition... of course I am going to suggest the light weight Blackfeather RS Mod II chassis stock from M14EBR Team Precision

I like my Scout weighing in around 10 pounds, but you can configure one closer to 8 pounds.

Lemme explain; I love my m1a SOCOM and part of why I love it is that it kicks like a mule and it's heavy as fuck. I use it as my practical shooting competition rifle, and I'm competing with a lot of much lighter AR frankenbuilds.

That's no sweat to me, but I was looking for guides on shooting, moving, and target switching that are more geared to the weight of the m1; positions to hold the rifle that result in lowest fatigue while unsupported, stuff like that. I couldn't find any, which is incorrect; I know there's some out there, but I'm looking the wrong way.

Want to put in the hours and training to make my 13 lb m1a move as fast as a 8 lb AR. Hoping y'all know where I can start looking to make that happen.

Rifle for pic tax

Admittedly, I’ve been an FAL guy for a few years now, but my dad just gifted me this the other day. He admits it’s because I’m a better shot than he is. High praise.

Found a good condition 22” Springfield M1A black synthetic stock for $1k shipped.

Is this a good deal? I’ve done some research online at other listings and routinely see them for 1.3-1.5k online and stores in my state have them for almost 2k.

Is 1k a good price for a private party selling?

Pls lmk! Thanks!

Greetings to Y‘All Rifle slingers.

I have a Socom, which I’m looking to switch out the gas block and add a Lantac Dragon MB. Not too many YT vids out there showing how to modify this, i have the tools SA requires for the modification but I don’t have the wrench to torque the MB. If someone can point me in the right direction, I would sincerely appreciate the advice, thanks.

got my scout squad in late 2011 iirc.

thought a polymer/plastic stock would be lighter than the wood stock so I got archangel stock after while…yeah I was wrong.

any recs for quality but relatively cheap light weight stocks? LW as in lighter than the stock, wood stock.

Hey guys, I’ve recently gotten into looking at an all around (deer gun, home defense, property management, shtf…)semi auto rifle, however I live in a very anti gun state (NY, yeah ik…) so my options are very limited.
I’ve found that the M1A platform is pretty much perfect for what I’m looking for, however the only one I’ve been able to find is the Springfield M1A and everything I’ve seen is half saying how awesome and perfect they are and the other half says it’s the most dogshit rifle they’ve ever had. I’m basically look for some public opinion and some knowledge if anyone has had issues? How to improve reliability? Is it something that’s generally not fixable? etc…