M1A tips

[overbore]

1. If you shoot it at any distance beyond about 300 yards, rifle cant is a big no-no for accuracy so here is how to eliminate same. At Harbor Freight or similar locale, purchase a low cost plastic level. Carefully remove the tube portion. Look at the receiver and note the flat spot just below the hooded rear sight. That is where the tube will be epoxied as it is quickly and easily seen and is good place to secure the tube.. Roughen the far 90 degree surfaces, side and bottom, of the tube and the matching steel area of the receiver, wipe of the dust and oil. Mix up and carefully stir epoxy components without adding air bubbles. Apply carefully and wipe off area excess with rubbing alcohol. I suggest a clear epoxy not a filled epoxy like Plastic Steel, Marine Tex etc. as we are seeking a 2,000 psi adhesive bond-- Allow to set for 24 hours at above 60F.

2. The Archangel polymer stock is a cost effective modification that gives the shooter adjustable LOP and adjustable comb height for irons or scope if you have ( suggested) a see through mount. It is not drop in but you can do it.

3. A quickly detachable steel bipod is a highly useful addition ( Brownells )

4. If you reload, use the brass no more than 3X as case stretching is a fact of life; it will lead to case failures.

5. A quick golden reloading recipe is 41.5gr H4895, Sierra 169BTHP, Federal Match cases and CCI hard primer ( ?#34) ---I plead old age--. Never load more than 175 gr. bullets---. Op rods are spendy and bendy:D:D

Laus Deo
overbore

[rice paddy daddy]

With all due respect, sir, my slightly used M1A + 2 magazines + GI sling + tax = $1800. I am not about to epoxy anything on it.
It's a Standard Model, all USGI parts (except receiver, of course), the only accesories I added were the Vietnam era web sling and a USGI M6 bayonet.
She's just like the ones that were issued to me back in the day.

[Klayton]

With all due respect, sir, my slightly used M1A + 2 magazines + GI sling + tax = $1800. I am not about to epoxy anything on it.
It's a Standard Model, all USGI parts (except receiver, of course), the only accesories I added were the Vietnam era web sling and a USGI M6 bayonet.
She's just like the ones that were issued to me back in the day.

Goodness, used M1A's cost that much rice paddy daddy?

[rice paddy daddy]

Goodness, used M1A's cost that much rice paddy daddy?

One built with all USGI parts, yes. Springfield has not used those in almost a decade.
The base price was $1600. Tax alone is 10%, at least in Florida. I had the cash, and was glad to pay it.
She looks a whole lot better than the one's I was issued in 1968.:D

[Spock]

mine new 3 years ago was $1600. i think dealer cost is 1300-1400

[overbore]

RPD: Neither of us are wrong- we just have different definitions of value as mine is to function in an emergency life protection mode where all is fair and necessary to win and yours appears to be to keep its inherent value. Both are valid. Since we are of about the same vintage, 1956 enlistment for me, I am curious to know if you have a mount and scope to supplement your "irons". Do you have any rails or means to use it in very low light???
Cordially, overbore

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Overbore I was actually thinking of doing the level with my 06 bolt I gotta get out past 300 and practice more I have a antelope hunt in Aug in NM but the only flat spot I can find is the top cover of the scope turrent dunno

[rice paddy daddy]

RPD: Neither of us are wrong- we just have different definitions of value as mine is to function in an emergency life protection mode where all is fair and necessary to win and yours appears to be to keep its inherent value. Both are valid. Since we are of about the same vintage, 1956 enlistment for me, I am curious to know if you have a mount and scope to supplement your "irons". Do you have any rails or means to use it in very low light???
Cordially, overbore

US Army, 1967-1970, with a year in Vietnam.
I have both civilian and military/military style firearms. Handguns, shotguns, rifles. More than "a few". Many.
All of my military rifles have the same sights that came from the factory, whether that was in the USA, China, Russia, Romania or Germany. Dadgum it, that reminds me I need to get a Mk4No1 Enfield so I can add Great Britian to the list. And maybe an Arisaka. But I don't have, nor have a desire for, an AR. Especially one with rails and night vision scopes, etc.
But, that's just my opinion, which don't mean a whole lot.
I have scopes on some 22LR's, a 22 magnum, a 22 Hornet, and a 30-06. But not on my lever rifles, that's just tacky.
In my AO, the only low light shooting I'll most likely ever have to do will be against four legged perps after my chickens, and that can be (and has been) accomplished using a 20 ga SXS double barrel holding a 2 D-cell Maglight (with zenon bulb) in my support hand. Works really well. Would be equally effective against two legged ones as well. However, I've always considered a light in that type situation, if it ever arose, to be a lead magnet.
I have defended my life before using iron sights, even after dark using parachute flares.
I no longer have access to parachute flares, but I don't lay awake at night worrying about hordes of zombies making it this far out of the city after the unlikely event of a society collapse.
As they used to say in the old days, overbore, different strokes for different folks.
Buy and use what makes you happy, as will I.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

the only low light shooting I'll most likely ever have to do will be against four legged perps after my chickens, and that can be (and has been) accomplished using a 20 ga SXS double barrel holding a 2 D-cell Maglight (with zenon bulb) in my support hand.

I can see him now Get off my Lawn!
LOL