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Posted: 5/11/2006 1:59:55 PM EDT
| Are there DCM M14's circulating in the market? If so, who has them and what is the $$? |
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The DCM loaned M14 to the various state associations. I think most of them have been brought back in. I think there are two owned by private citizens. There are some Class 3 M14's out there, but they didn't come from the CMP/DCMC (and they never will). They're going for about $25K these days. Ty |
A few NM's made by TNW as semi, 3 or 4 of them floating around and one ( supposodly legit one ) comes up for sale every now and than usually with alot of contriversy. |
Those would be the two I mentioned above. There's something odd about the court ruling and I'm pretty sure it only applies to those two particular rifles. I think Different has the details. FWIW, the majority of M14's were issued with selector locks (semi-auto only) instead of the selector switch. |
the DCM guns were loaned to state associations, who inturn loaned them to the state's (or club) team members, when they stopped shooting or moved to another rifle (AR) the 14 went back, |
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I've seen one M14 NM from the state association at matches, but its been a few years. I suppose there may still be some out there but it would take better connections with the state association than what I have to get my hands on one. As far as real M14's on the commercial market, hmm, no. (A) its class 3, (B) probably stolen government property, and (c) costs way more than anyone would want to spend. There will never, repeat never, be M14's availible from CMP for civilian consumption. Never. Ever. |
Re-issued if serviceable or sent back to the Army at Anniston . WA St. Assoc has turned all there's back and purchased Armalite AR-15 NM service rifles thru the CMP for loaner's pretty much to juniors only TIKO. The NM M14's they had were pretty wore out & tired. The NM M14 is pretty much gone from military marksmanship programs esp the big teams. I still have an issued AF NM M14 since the AF has yet to adopt the accurized AR as it's official competition service rifle. Some state level Army Guard programs also probably still have some NM m14's too... |
See my post above. We are not the only USN armory to have M14's either. In fact the USN has a crap load of M14's in the inventory. Some used for nthing more than casting lines.. |
Unlike the other rifles loaned by the DCM, which had to be purchased or turned in (M1 rifles, .22 target rifles, M1 carbines) the M14s weren't called back in by the .gov when the DCM/CMP switchover happened. The State Assn. has to maintain an insurance bond for the rifles and an active highpower shooting program. They're still fun to shoot. 
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I shot a borrowed NM M1A last weekend for a service rifle clinic/fun match. Before this, I had been shopping for a Garand, but after shooting a M1A, I thought it would be pretty cool to own a M14. After doing a web search, I found some information on the DCM M14 program and assumed that some were eventually sold to the civilian market. After the information in this thread, I will forget about that idea, although it impressed me enough to still want a M1A instead. It felt less stable to me than my AR when shooting off hand, but I was still able to score decent. It got pretty windy throughout the day but I only needed to add 1 click of windage at 600 yds. Naturally, the AR15's were adding a bunch more clicks and were effected more when the wind changed direction. It was a very comfortable rifle to shoot in general and would love one for a dual purpose hunting and target shooting rifle. |
I could be wrong, but I swear I saw two actual M-14s that were used by CT State Rifle team members. Real M-14s, not M1As. This was a year or three ago. |
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