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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!venus.lerc.nasa.gov
- From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Norinco M14/Mini14/SKS
- Message-ID: <22DEC199210430822@venus.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:45:46 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: who knows
- Lines: 16
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler) writes...
- #towle@vssteg.enet.dec.com (Clark Towle Gunsmith) writes:
- ## When the "genuine US Mil spec" clone kits appeared on the market myself and
- ##another good friend who is also a match armourer/gunsmith each bought a kit
- ##just to see if the fantastically low price was worth it. To make a long story
- ##short it wasn't. The worst part was trying to get the barrel to headspace.
- ##4 different US made aftermarket receivers were tried and headspace was unsafe
- ##in all of them.
- #
- #I'm not sure if it's the same, but an outfit in IL was selling GI
- #parts kits for the M14 (minus receiver). I picked one up about this
- #time last year, and got a Springfield receiver to go with it
- #midsummer. The action went together just fine, headspaced well and it
- #fires quite well.
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- I think that these kits were made up of parts from M14s surplused by Israel.
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