M14 Forum

cobrafreak · January 8th, 2012, 03:55 PM

I took my M1A Supermatch and bedded it into my new Pro-Mag Archangel stock. I installed a titanium nitrided gas piston, an adjustable gas valve for minimum op-rod slam, an op-rod buffer to lessen the slam against the receiver. I did some trigger polish work that reduced the National Match trigger job from 5 to 4lbs. I did a hammer lightening job that reduced the hammer mass by about 35-40% for quicker lock-up. I just installed my new IJK 10-40x50 non-illuminated scope (pretty good for the money) onto my Basset Machine scope mount using high quality scope rings. Cheap scope rings are the scourge of scopes in my opinion. Most negative scope effects are directly linked to cheap rings. Ammo was Russian Wolf 150 gr. (I still have a bunch of it around). My first day at the range with my current set up and shot this 10 round group at 100 yards. I'm pretty happy with the results.

cachunk · January 8th, 2012, 03:58 PM

nice rifle, nice shooting, thanks for posting!

highbrow · January 8th, 2012, 05:47 PM

Amazing groups for Wolf ammo.

lord of war619 · January 8th, 2012, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by cobrafreak

I took my M1A Supermatch and bedded it into my new Pro-Mag Archangel stock. I installed a titanium nitrided gas piston, an adjustable gas valve for minimum op-rod slam, an op-rod buffer to lessen the slam against the receiver. I did some trigger polish work that reduced the National Match trigger job from 5 to 4lbs. I did a hammer lightening job that reduced the hammer mass by about 35-40% for quicker lock-up. I just installed my new IJK 10-40x50 non-illuminated scope (pretty good for the money) onto my Basset Machine scope mount using high quality scope rings. Cheap scope rings are the scourge of scopes in my opinion. Most negative scope effects are directly linked to cheap rings. Ammo was Russian Wolf 150 gr. (I still have a bunch of it around). My first day at the range with my current set up and shot this 10 round group at 100 yards. I'm pretty happy with the results.

you are not worried about shooting STEEL ammo thru a nice super match ouch, good group but its live force feeding your kid liver

lord of war619 · January 8th, 2012, 09:44 PM

i live the smiley face grouping though

cobrafreak · January 9th, 2012, 05:44 AM

I'm not really worried about the barrel with the steel cases as the ejected cases still have the grey coating on without scratches (no metal on metal contact). I think the worse case scenario would be a wearing ejector. I check it all the time and it's still shown no signs of premature wear. My ejector is a forged USGI unit. I do believe that Wolf has got better over the years. It used to be really dirty but it's on par with other brands now in that respect. Decent cheap ammo.