How do YOU refer to your M1A/M14/M14S??

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How do YOU refer to your M1A/M14/M14S??

Posted: 10/19/2010 10:54:22 AM EDT

I have a weird question.

Do you refer to your M1A as an M14? I recognize it isn't, but it certainly rolls off the tongue more easily than "M1A".

Besides, for me an M1 is a GARAND, uncless it is followed by "Carbine".

Then there's the catch that one of my rifles is an M1A, and the other is an M14S.

How do you deal with this, if at all?

Posted: 10/19/2010 12:09:53 PM EDT

[#1]

"M14 type"

Posted: 10/19/2010 12:13:07 PM EDT

[#2]

Since it is a Norinco, I call it my "Mao-14"

Posted: 10/19/2010 12:19:17 PM EDT

[#3]

Dirty Susan

Posted: 10/19/2010 12:20:37 PM EDT

[#4]

I call it my whompin stick.

Posted: 10/19/2010 1:18:12 PM EDT

[#5]

I call it my "M1A" cause it is. But depending on who I'm talking to, sometimes I have to say "the civilian version of the M14" ... even then some people don't know what I'm talking about

Posted: 10/19/2010 1:23:42 PM EDT

[#6]

I call it either "my supermatch or my scout"

Posted: 10/19/2010 1:56:35 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
I call it either "my supermatch or my scout"

My Springfield I call my Scout.

Posted: 10/19/2010 1:57:10 PM EDT

[#8]

Vera

Posted: 10/19/2010 2:21:15 PM EDT

[#9]

In my medicine cabinet, you will find "acetaminophen," "facial tissue," and "adhesive bandages."

But my Polytech is an M-14

Posted: 10/19/2010 2:23:01 PM EDT

[#10]

M14

99% of people who I have to tell what it is, have no clue that a true M14 has a happy switch.

Posted: 10/19/2010 2:52:18 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
M14

99% of people who I have to tell what it is, have no clue that a true M14 has a happy switch.

I guess I'm worried about looking stupid to the 1% who do know.

Posted: 10/19/2010 4:37:08 PM EDT

[#12]

I have an LRB. On the receiver it is stamped M14SA. The "SA" is for Semi-Auto.

At any given time, or depending on who I'm talking to, you will find me referring to my rifle in one of the following ways:

M14
M14 type
M14 style rifle
Civilian version of the M14
Semi-Auto M14
M14 Semi-Auto
M14SA
LRB M14

But I never refer to my rifle as an M1A, cause it's not.

Posted: 10/19/2010 4:59:29 PM EDT

[#13]

I'ver got an XM15E2S that I call an AR15. I have an LAR15 that I call an AR15. I have an M14S that I call an M14.

Posted: 10/19/2010 5:04:17 PM EDT

[#14]

This isn't just an issue with M14s.

Most folks , even gun folks, call any AK style rifle and AK47 (Even thought most of them are AKM clones)

I call all my rifles "ARs" but don't own a single Colt product.

Posted: 10/19/2010 5:18:03 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

This isn't just an issue with M14s.

Most folks , even gun folks, call any AK style rifle and AK47 (Even thought most of them are AKM clones)

I call all my rifles "ARs" but don't own a single Colt product.

Thats nice, make alot more sense if you didn't have any armalite products

Posted: 10/19/2010 5:25:58 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:

This isn't just an issue with M14s.

Most folks , even gun folks, call any AK style rifle and AK47 (Even thought most of them are AKM clones)

I call all my rifles "ARs" but don't own a single Colt product.

Thats nice, make alot more sense if you didn't have any armalite products

Uhm, Colt owns the name "AR15"

Posted: 10/19/2010 5:42:16 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
This isn't just an issue with M14s.

Most folks , even gun folks, call any AK style rifle and AK47 (Even thought most of them are AKM clones)

I call all my rifles "ARs" but don't own a single Colt product.

Thats nice, make alot more sense if you didn't have any armalite products

Uhm, Colt owns the name "AR15"

Yeah, Armalite's AR's are M15's, not AR15's.

I just refer to them all as M14's. Sounds better than M1A, M14SA, etc...

Posted: 10/19/2010 6:18:07 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:
M14

99% of people who I have to tell what it is, have no clue that a true M14 has a happy switch.

I guess I'm worried about looking stupid to the 1% who do know.

From what I head/read TRW did make a few Semi M-14 rifles... But there are experts out there who can tell you for sure or not. I am no expert/.// YMMV

I call my Poly M14s a M14

The SAI is the M1A

Posted: 10/19/2010 6:34:45 PM EDT

[#19]

Thumper

Posted: 10/19/2010 6:38:14 PM EDT

[#20]

Moneysuckingammowhore

Posted: 10/19/2010 7:11:00 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Moneysuckingammowhore

Posted: 10/20/2010 4:15:41 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Moneysuckingammowhore

MSAW

EM-SAW! I like it!

Posted: 10/20/2010 4:31:04 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Moneysuckingammowhore

Posted: 10/20/2010 4:37:51 AM EDT

[#24]

M1A, I have a Springfield (tm)

Posted: 10/20/2010 4:53:44 AM EDT

[#25]

Since "M1A" is Springfields TM, I call my LRB M25.... um... well she is new so I don't have a name for her yet... but I am liking Davy Crockets name for his musket... "Tick Licker"

Posted: 10/20/2010 1:34:27 PM EDT

[#26]

I call my Garands "M1" or "Garand" or "M1 Garand" depending on who I am talking to and how much they know.

I call my Polytech M14 clone "M14S", as that is what is stamped on it.

I call the SAI M14 clone "M1A", as that is what is stamped on it.

Not knowing much about the other M14 clones and their model names/numbers, so I say "ABC company's M14 clone", etc.

I do not generalize on the names of rifles.

Posted: 10/20/2010 1:35:45 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
In my medicine cabinet, you will find "acetaminophen," "facial tissue," and "adhesive bandages."

But my Polytech is an M-14S

Posted: 10/20/2010 1:37:03 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

Quoted:
M14

99% of people who I have to tell what it is, have no clue that a true M14 has a happy switch.

I guess I'm worried about looking stupid to the 1% who do know.

Very valid concern. Just because some people are lazy and won't call rifles/pistols/revolvers by their brand name/model doesn't mean you have to be.

Posted: 10/20/2010 8:08:05 PM EDT

[#29]

Scout and Matilda for the SEI worked over Polytech

Posted: 10/21/2010 1:23:34 AM EDT

[#30]

I would say I'm about 50/50 calling it M1A and M-14. I think SAI called it the M1A because the A looks like a 4?

Posted: 10/21/2010 2:33:42 AM EDT

[#31]

I don't talk to people.

Posted: 10/21/2010 3:20:58 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
I would say I'm about 50/50 calling it M1A and M-14. I think SAI called it the M1A because the A looks like a 4?

There's an "A" in "Cast" as opposed to "4" sounding more like "Forged"?

Posted: 10/21/2010 3:59:37 AM EDT

[#33]

I always used to hear people refer to it completely incorrectly as an "M1A1"

Posted: 10/23/2010 10:38:49 AM EDT

[#34]

Babe

Posted: 10/23/2010 4:19:23 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
I don't talk to people.

This^
But if I did I would say M21.
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Posted: 10/23/2010 5:02:34 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
From what I head/read TRW did make a few Semi M-14 rifles... But there are experts out there who can tell you for sure or not. I am no expert/.// YMMV

TRW did not manufacture semi-automatic M14 rifles. The U. S. government Springfield Armory did make three though, serial numbers X500, X501 and X502. These three rifles were manufactured in the winter of 1962.

Posted: 10/23/2010 5:03:05 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
I'ver got an XM15E2S that I call an AR15. I have an LAR15 that I call an AR15. I have an M14S that I call an M14.

This.

Posted: 10/23/2010 5:12:22 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I always used to hear people refer to it completely incorrectly as an "M1A1"

+1000

I hate hearing it.

Posted: 10/23/2010 5:29:30 PM EDT

[#39]

"That damn gun over there"

Posted: 10/23/2010 5:34:59 PM EDT

[#40]

SOCOM

Posted: 10/24/2010 8:06:14 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
From what I head/read TRW did make a few Semi M-14 rifles... But there are experts out there who can tell you for sure or not. I am no expert/.// YMMV

TRW did not manufacture semi-automatic M14 rifles. The U. S. government Springfield Armory did make three though, serial numbers X500, X501 and X502. These three rifles were manufactured in the winter of 1962.

there you go... I am no expert!

Posted: 10/25/2010 9:02:41 PM EDT

[#42]

I refer to it currently as " in transit" or " broken" its on its way back to springfield . but when healthy its "M14" M1A or Maggie .

Posted: 10/25/2010 9:04:21 PM EDT

[#43]

M1A

Posted: 10/25/2010 9:09:49 PM EDT

[#44]

Poly tech here.

I call it an m-14 copy.

Posted: 10/26/2010 1:02:25 PM EDT

[#45]

I call mine an M1A to people. If I get a deer in the headlights look. M14 type, if I get the deer in the headlights look again. .308 semi-auto USGI. At that point the conversatin is over. Not going away mad just going away. If they think it's cool and want to learn then I take them out to shoot and get another convert to the M14 type rifle.

Posted: 10/26/2010 9:11:15 PM EDT

[#46]

I understand why you're asking. When I tell people I have an M-1A, they kinda look at me confused and sometimes thing I'm talking about a Garand. More people seem to get it when I say "M-14, like what Private Pyle shot Sgt. Hartman with".

Posted: 10/27/2010 6:23:11 AM EDT

[#47]

I call my poly an M21 since thats the spec its (almost) built to.

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