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Posted: 7/10/2007 2:54:28 PM EDT
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i searched and did not come up with anything worthwhile.... so hopefully this won't be a double (or triple) post. i have a SA loaded m1a and am looking for a scope mount and rings. this is a fun shooter but could serve more serious applications in the future. there is the weaver vs. picatinny debate, but i dont want to get into that. i prefer picatinny as i have on all my ar stuff, but for price effectiveness, i might go with a weaver style mount for this gun. i have seen quite a few different mounts in steel and aluminum. let's focus on the springfield gen3, sadlak, and smith ent. inc. if any of you have had good/bad experience with any of them, i would like to hear all the feedback you could possibly give. also what do you own? why did you choose that particular mount? and what rings (or single piece rings/base) did you use with them. sorry for the long winded post, i would just like good feedback before i make my purchse. thanks for the feedback. |
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This has been rehashed tons of times, but everybody will have there preferences. I think the only thing that everyone will agree on is to stay away from the SAI gen 3 scope mounts, they more often junk. Sadlak and Smith Enterprises are the way to go. I personaly have a SADLAK aluminum mount and have no problems with it so far. I would go here for all the M14/M1A info you can handle, and a great bunch of guys that are very informative. M14/ M1A info |
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Loaded Springfield Armory M1A. I went wit the Sadlak Aluminum mount. Good mount with top notch experience with Sadlak, Mike is a great gut to deal with. Rings are TPS medium aluminum rings, they were in stock and the price was right. The rings turned out to be better than I thought they would be. No lapping and they hold onto the scope, so well that even with the ring caps off you have to almost pick the scope up to adjust it. I chose the Sadlak mount based on some other folks on this site geting them and the design features. It is an enhanced Brookfield design and incorporates some design features I liked. I had heard some folks having problems with SEI mounts fitting a Springfield reciever groove properly. Get the inspection kit and do the measurements. Mine was in-spec., but I like to play it safe. Remember, you are mounting optics on something that was really never designed to mount optics on it. Sadlak mount took about 5 days to get, direct from Sadlak, and the rings about 4, direct from TPS. MPD165 |
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I had a recent bad experience with a cheap Gen3 mount. The front screw was slightly crooked (shaft of the screw wasn't perpendicular to the knurled base), and when I went to remove it to adjust the rear mount, the screw stripped it's threads off, and galled up the threads in the receiver. When attempting to clean up the receiver threads, the tap snapped off in the receiver. That caused me to buy a $70 set of tap extractors, which fortunately allowed me to remove the broken tap (which was REALLY jammed in there good). With the threads now too-far gone to clean up, I had to re-tap the receiver for a 6mm thread, instead of the stock #12-32, which means I had to make a new thumbscrew with a 6mm thread, as well. In the end, it all worked out - the scope mount is installed, scope mounted, sighted, and working well. With the exception of the bare-metal thumbscrew (will see if I can find someone to parkerize it for me), you can't tell the difference. But, the rifle was laid up for over a week, and the money I saved by buying a cheap mount was quickly eaten up by the need to purchase more tools to fix something that never should have needed fixing. Bottom line: don't buy cheap. |
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