Quoted: Why M1-A if you are going to spend that kind of gilt, ever thought about an AR/10...just a thought...
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An AR-10 tricked out the same way would cost about that much.
Have you seen the prices for 10Ts? Outrageously expensive for aluminum and plastic.
For robbyd:
I can save you some money and offer a bit of info that might help.
ACOG is a bad idea. The eye relief is just too short; you'll end up being smacked in the eye with the scope. Furthermore the M1A is just a poor scope platform. It can be made good, but only with a lot of work and luck. The ARMS mount is very good, but still isn't a Brookfield and can shake loose under firing. The M1A stock needs a cheekpiece just to have a good cheek weld for the iron sights, much less a scope.
The Vortex flash hider is a waste of money. The standard M-14 flash hider works very well at night.
Just say no to the bipod adaptor. You are better off taking the sling loop off the M-14 stock and drilling a hole to mount a sling swivel. This mounts the bipod directly to the stock without a cumbersome interface.
The stocks won't cost you $25 a piece if you refinish them yourself. Fiberglass stocks run about $15, and the materials required to fix them up for use on an M1A (and make them look nice too) won't be an extra $10, believe me.
Why a Bushgun? That's just curiousity on my part, not a criticism. Personally, if I were going for a short-barreled .308 I'd get an FAL Para or AR-10 Carbine and go from there.
I built up my pre-ban M1A into a kind of SHTF sharpshooter's rig. I use a Springfield Gen. 3 mount (after trying a couple of different mounts), Springfield 6x Rangefinding scope, Harris bipod attached to the stock as described above, a leather lace-on cheekpiece (for the irons) with a detachable homemade cheekpiece for the scope, and 14 USGI mags loaded with Hornady TAP rounds. It has sub-MOA accuracy at 100 yards, and is accurate enough to make consistent kill shots on human silhouettes (including partially concealed targets) out to 800 yards. Much farther than 800 yds. is too far to hit a human target (at least in my experience).