I've put together a FAQ article on M14 scope mounts. sven posted it at www.imageseek.com/m1a If you have suggestions or tips let me know. Post here or e-mail them to me at leeace99@hotmail.com Then I'll update and all M14 fans can have access to it.
I have a M1A Supermatch in excellent condition that I bought from a guy in Maryland in 2002. Seller claimed less than 500 rounds fired. The sale included a gen 3 Springfield scope mount that appears to have been previously installed on the rifle. I am planning to do some long range work with this piece and a Vortex Viper scope (exact model yet to be determined). I looked at a previous post from 2003 that detailed (somewhat) a fix for the gen3 mount, however the pictures in the post were no longer available.
Is there a way to recover the photos from the 2003 post. If not, does anyone have recommendations for the optimal scope mount for this setup?
I settled on a picatinny mount made in Canada . . . you can research at www.m14.ca . . . It mounts in place of the rear sight, and is rock solid. It has a non-adjustable peep hole in the sight that can work with the front sight post in an emergency,, but I have not yet used it to determine the range at which it would be accurate. I currently have a 56 mm objective that blocks the sight picture of the front sight, so it is a moot point for me.
Funny, after using a sadlak, arms mounts, crap Springer mounts over the last 15 years, I've come down to using only these cheap little mounts from a company called m1surplus or something, think they are $50 ish and blow away pretty much any other mounts I have tried. Never an issue whatsoever and these m14s get toated around a lot of bad places and have never failed. But for me they are better than any of the other clunky $200+ mounts out there. Yes opinions are like s but they have worked great for me and i kick the crap out of them
Funny, after using a sadlak, arms mounts, crap Springer mounts over the last 15 years, I've come down to using only these cheap little mounts from a company called m1surplus or something, think they are $50 ish and blow away pretty much any other mounts I have tried. Never an issue whatsoever and these m14s get toated around a lot of bad places and have never failed. But for me they are better than any of the other clunky $200+ mounts out there. Yes opinions are like *******s but they have worked great for me and i kick the crap out of them
Funny, after using a sadlak, arms mounts, crap Springer mounts over the last 15 years, I've come down to using only these cheap little mounts from a company called m1surplus or something, think they are $50 ish and blow away pretty much any other mounts I have tried. Never an issue whatsoever and these m14s get toated around a lot of bad places and have never failed. But for me they are better than any of the other clunky $200+ mounts out there. Yes opinions are like *******s but they have worked great for me and i kick the crap out of them
I've used Sadlak, ARMS, and VLTOR's CASV-14. They all worked excellent although I've had stove-pipe issues with the Sadlak and arms mounts when shooting suppressed but a replacement extractor spring fixed the problem.
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