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Posted: 2/28/2009 9:50:17 AM EDT
| How can I tell if an M1A is a national match model? I found one but cant see it in person, all I know is its new in the box and has a black synthetic stock, blued including barrel. I was told the barrel is stamped national match. Any info would be great |
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How can I tell if an M1A is a national match model? I found one but cant see it in person, all I know is its new in the box and has a black synthetic stock, blued including barrel. I was told the barrel is stamped national match. Any info would be great If it's a heavy profile stock (McMillan), then it would definitely be. A slim GI profile with the checkered grips––almost certainly not. You should be able to see bedding epoxy around the receiver footprint and inside the mag well. No bedding, no Match. |
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How can I tell if an M1A is a national match model? I found one but cant see it in person, all I know is its new in the box and has a black synthetic stock, blued including barrel. I was told the barrel is stamped national match. Any info would be great If it's a heavy profile stock (McMillan), then it would definitely be. A slim GI profile with the checkered grips––almost certainly not. You should be able to see bedding epoxy around the receiver footprint and inside the mag well. No bedding, no Match. Sir, I most certainly agree with what Mr. 30cal has posted. The other features of the SA NM that I had included the NM stamp at twelve o'clock on the barrel to the rear of the flash suppressor. The flash suppressor was taper reamed. If in fact the receiver is bedded into the stock count on the rifle needing to be rebedded if you buy it otherwise it's no different than any other SA rifle. When you remove the barrel assembly/receiver from the stock the difficulty of removing it will tell you if the bedding is any good, if it comes apart easily the bedding is NG. SA uses the two flat head screw method of unitizing the gas plate with the gas cylinder. Remove the upper barrel assembly and receiver from the lower stock and look at the back of the gas plate for two flat head screws with hex drive drilled and tapped into the rear. There should be some heavy staking to ensure they do not back out. Also the forward end upper hand guard should be epoxied into the rear of the gas plate. The SA NM sight is actually just a standard USGI Garand or M14 sight modified by milling the inside edge of the windage know flat and machining eight notches around the perimeter that engage a ball detent that rests in a slight recess in the side of the receiver that provides the tactile click sensation enabling a four click 4 MOA per revolution sight now to be an eight click per revolution or one half minute per click. The elevation rack should have a hooded rear aperture that can be rotated one half turn to provide the one half MOA elevation adjustment. The edge of the hooded aperture should be stamped either .0520 or .0595 which corresponds to the inside diameter of the aperture. I don't recall if the SA NM had a standard USGI op rod guide or the NM type with the round bar stock welded to the magazine catch, if you rifle you are examining has a round barstock guide that's NM. Count on replacing it due to the wear from inserting magazines and removing them. The magazine catch becomes soft due to the heat of the weld and eventually the magazines start popping our sometime during the course of a rapid fire strind. HTH, 7zero1. |
| It is probably a loaded. I don't think Springfield offers a NM model in their own synthetic stock (unless the stock is a McMillan). The SAI or USGI stock is not the best for bedding without reinforcing the forend. A NM model will have a unified gas system and a bedded receiver. Ask the guy for pictures of the glass bedding and the unified gas cylinder. He either has no idea what he is talking about or trying to rip you off. Many loaded models have been sold as NM rifles because the barrel is marked NM. Ask for the model number off the box also and look it up. |
Even though Im still in school and have spend 3000 on 3 guns this week but probably wont be able to get them much longer.
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