Posted: 1/31/2005 7:01:19 PM EDT
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Learned this at the SHOT Show. Springfield Armory M1A receivers are investment cast by Ruger in Prescott Arizona. Shipped from Ruger to adi-limited.com in Australia for final machining. Sent from Australia back to Springfield Armory for assembly. 
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for the love of god, first they come up with a name that intentionally misleads people as to the origins of the products, then they have Ruger make the receiver castings and mill them overseas? where the hell are their 1911 parts made? Croatia with the XD? fuck it, I'm buying an FAL |
yeah that is a nice one though I'm sure smith will come out with something to compete with it in the .454 category |
good
Let me guess, you put that money to good use and bought an Olympic, right? 
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He was shopping at Castle Boutique... w00t |
I had one circa 1989 that the only thing non GI was the receiver. The barrel was marked 1964 Winchester. It was also a great shooter. It's when SA stopped using all GI parts that their quality went to hell. |
Actually, only the frame and slide, the rest is piece part shit from cheap labor sources. The frames and slides that are forged in Brazil are EXCELLENT components...but the piece parts are shit. As far as Ruger doing the castings...I am ACTUALLY relieved. As much as I hate Ruger they are leaders in casting technology, If Springfield was having them cast elsewhere ( Caspian excepted ) I'd be worried. ADI in Australia actually does GREAT machine work WHEN they are paid to do quality work. However if you ask for the cheap job then you get what you pay for, this is why a Century Arms receiver is more likely to be crap even though it comes from the same source. SA probably has stricter QA compliance guidelines. This doesn't mean SA doesn't get crap but it's a lot less than Century might. More to the point is when SA does get a bunk reciever WHY DO THEY PUT IT OUT THE DOOR??? The ball is dropped by SA moreso than ADI in that case. As it stands, my SA M1A's are great weapons....though I must admit I would LOVE to put LRB forged recievers on them. |