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Posted: 7/24/2006 11:44:27 AM EDT
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LRB's recent change to selling only complete rifles is bumming me out. I am trying not to have hard feelings about it but I have been scrounging parts for a year and wanted to build a rifle. It's how you feel when you know theres a great product available and the rules of acquisition change. $700.00 for a receiver vs. $ 2,000.00 for the whole Kit w/caboodle. I already got my parts. That's what we were supposed to do right? Rustle up parts. Rustle up parts. Choose your builder. Order the marvelous LRB receiver Then rustle up more parts. Send out parts and receiver. I'm fairly sure I will get over waiting another year for a receiver I ordered 7 months ago. The part I have trouble with is the fact that now anyone ordering a complete rifle is jumping me in line. The receivers are not actually on backorder just all going into higher margin complete rifles. The prices are off the website now. What do you think the chances are for folks waiting for back ordered receivers to be able to buy one for the price they were when they ordered it? That would be a rhetorical question. . |
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If I had not purchased a Norinco I guess I would still be waiting for my LRB receiver to arrive so I could then send it off the SEI and have my second MK14 MOD 0 built. Just a suggestion: Jump everyone else in line, find a ChiCom rifle and have your dream rifle built on it. Do this and you will be pulling the trigger on your forged M14 rifle before Christmas. |
The above is the code properly broken: find a Norinco or Polytech weapon and send it off to SEI for the conversion and anything else you want to do. That's what's being done for me for me (2nd one, actually). Do it now,,,,the next batch of M14SE SDM's for the Army is not too far off. You know the drill. One more thing Ron asked me to pass on to anyone else wanting this conversion: get a USGI bolt (unmodified) and send it in along with your rifle. He doesn't have time to source the bolt for civilians. Frankly, when you get your properly converted rifle back, you'll have a vastly superior, dimesnionally correct, forged melonited weapon that will last you a lifetime. Now go find that China girl! |
Allow me to reply with pictures 
My favorite rifle is this MK14 MOD 0 built by SEI on a heel stamped forged Norinco receiver. Silky smooth action and super accurate with iron sights offhand.  It has the 18.0" chrome lined SEI barrel and weighs 9 lbs 10 oz. in my Hybrid SAGE stock.
My Little China Girl ~ a future M14SE SDM build.  |
You need to contact them directly. There basically is no MSRP as each build is unique: How many parts have to be replaced? What barrel do you want? What optics? What are you supplying for the build? Sorry, not an easy thing to answer. Also, they do not experiment with unknown quantities. So don't send them some off-the-wall barrel, scope, stock, whatever. You also need to have your stuff in one bag when you communicate with the factory. I believe most civilians know the firm's priorities are with my brothers and sisters in harm's way. Sooo....know exactly what you want before you communicate. Collaborate with folks on this board or others that are reputable and then prepare a well-written, itemized list of what you are supplying and what you expect them to supply. You will also be required to make a fifty percent non-refundable deposit at acceptance of quotation before work can commence. I don't mean to make this a daunting or intimidating task -- just do your homework. In any event, the project will not be cheap, but the result will last you a lifetime. Good luck. |
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