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Posted: 10/2/2004 1:57:33 PM EDT
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Gents What is your take on this rifle? I have a chance to buy one. Is it worth it or should I get a M21? Thanks Max |
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Here is a little info on them. www.isayeret.com/weapons/sws/m14/m14.htm 
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Your friend bought what off Auction Arms again? An IDF modified M14 rifle?! Or a Springfield Armory Inc. M1A Rifle? Before we get all twittered about IDF modified M14 Rifles recall IDF only fights in a very localized climate and terrain. US Army has to be prepared to fight anywhere and our equipment has to be able to do the same. -- Chuck |
| As I recall Springfield Armory sold some of these a few years ago.Basically getting a parts kit from demilled IDF M-14's and putting them on new SA receivers. there were 2 diffrent stocks available and it came fitted with the original optics (can't remember for the life of me what the scopes were). You don't mention the price of the one your looking at so it' difficult to say what the better buy is. The IDF will likely be all USGI parts with the exception of the receiver but will have seen service in a pretty harsh environment. M-21 is a gorgeous piece of work but as much as I love my SA National Match if I were to do it again I'd probably have Fulton Armory or some other smith build one on a LRB receiver. Another thing to consider is that these are both very mission specific weapons, that is, they sacrifice the flexibility of a standard battle rifle for greater accuracy at extended ranges. |
I'm almost positive the scopes were 6 power Nimrods. I bought a beat to crap one (wasn't nice enough finish for sale on one of their IDF guns) from Springfield at Camp Perry a few years back. It was a great scope, but I sold it to a friend who still has it on his M1A. IIRC, the stocks did look just like the ones in the pic above, but in person they look like shit. They are basically an old figerglass stock with a another grafted on butt section to act as a cheekpiece. They had some beat up ones they wanted (I think) 50 bucks for, but I went and picked up a bunch of scratch and dent wood and figerglass stocks for around 10 bucks a piece. |
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From the free online book M14 Rifle History and Development at www.imageseek.com/m1a In the late 1990s Springfield Armory, Inc. bought the parts from 200 Israeli Defense Force M14 rifles. The parts from these rifles, including the Harris bipods, Israeli Military Industries stocks and scope mounts and Nimrod 6X range finding scopes, were assembled on to commercial Springfield Armory receivers with heavy weight match grade barrels. They were sold as a limited run model in 1999. Yes, the Israelis had two version of stocks for their M14 sniper rifles. I examined M1A IDF M1A serial number 095 in September 2004 at a gun shop in Las Vegas, NV. I did not shoot it but it looked good to me. FWIW |
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I have one of these brand new with all of the accessories. If interested drop me an e-mail. jr1572 [email protected] |
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