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Posted: 4/8/2009 8:24:22 AM EDT
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I recently picked up a never fired Springfield Armory M1A from a friend and we seem to be having a disagreement as to the exact model. I was first told it was a National Match, which was not the case, then it became a loaded..After a call to Springfield they were able to confirm it was a stadard M1A manufactured in Jan 1998. After forwarding this information along I am now being told it is a standard but had a National Match barrel installed. Can anyone confirm or deny this based on the barrel engravings? I am really just looking for confirmation that this is a National Match barrel as he claims.
Geneseo, IL 308 H-R 7790190 8-61-S Warriors SprtuaL "Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation." |
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I recently picked up a never fired Springfield Armory M1A from a friend and we seem to be having a disagreement as to the exact model. I was first told it was a National Match, which was not the case, then it became a loaded..After a call to Springfield they were able to confirm it was a stadard M1A manufactured in Jan 1998. After forwarding this information along I am now being told it is a standard but had a National Match barrel installed. Can anyone confirm or deny this based on the barrel engravings? I am really just looking for confirmation that this is a National Match barrel as he claims. Geneseo, IL 308 H-R 7790190 8-61-S Warriors SprtuaL "Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation." It seems you have a GI barrel, made by Harrington and Richardson in August of 1961. 7790190 is the GI part number. The "Geneseo, IL 308" was stamped there by Springfield Inc, and were not originally on that barrel. If it is a National Match barrel, it will have "NM" stamped into the top of the barrel somewhere between the flash supressor and the gas cylinder lock. A NM barrel does not make the whole rifle a NM, though. But they are great barrels. -Dan ETA: Get some pics up of your new rifle! |
| What is the profile? Does it taper right before the reciever? Or does it stay fat further down? That might also help us know. Pics would be even better. I don't know much about NM stuff, but I have a loaded that has a, I think, medium profiled barrel. Definitely not GI profile. |
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I recently picked up a never fired Springfield Armory M1A from a friend and we seem to be having a disagreement as to the exact model. I was first told it was a National Match, which was not the case, then it became a loaded..After a call to Springfield they were able to confirm it was a stadard M1A manufactured in Jan 1998. After forwarding this information along I am now being told it is a standard but had a National Match barrel installed. Can anyone confirm or deny this based on the barrel engravings? I am really just looking for confirmation that this is a National Match barrel as he claims. Geneseo, IL 308 H-R 7790190 8-61-S Warriors SprtuaL "Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation." It seems you have a GI barrel, made by Harrington and Richardson in August of 1961. 7790190 is the GI part number. The "Geneseo, IL 308" was stamped there by Springfield Inc, and were not originally on that barrel. If it is a National Match barrel, it will have "NM" stamped into the top of the barrel somewhere between the flash supressor and the gas cylinder lock. A NM barrel does not make the whole rifle a NM, though. But they are great barrels. -Dan ETA: Get some pics up of your new rifle! Bingo. This should be a good shooting barrel. If you unitize the gas cyl asy, ream the flash hider, and it locks up tight in the stock, you should be GTG. |
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