Anybody have a Poly Tech M-14 S?

[nf1e]

Have had a Norinco, a Poly Tech and have shot several Springfield M1A's. Also had the pleasure of going through Boot Camp & ITR carrying a M-14. To be honest I prefer my Poly Tech. Yes, it has a TRW bolt and a GI trigger group and a GI stock. Shoots well enough for me to hit whatever I am aiming at and the confidence it won't be getting up anytime soon.

I agree. With a little work, the Chicom stuff is super. We probably had the M14s worn out by the time you went through boot camp. Mine was new in '66 and I have never shot better.
Semper Fi
Art

USMC '66-'72 6216/6611
RVN '67'68
Proud to be a civilian and I sleep in a Super 8 while attending Camp Perry. Helps, you know.

[swampyankee]

"Have had a Norinco, a Poly Tech and have shot several Springfield M1A's. Also had the pleasure of going through Boot Camp & ITR carrying a M-14. To be honest I prefer my Poly Tech. Yes, it has a TRW bolt and a GI trigger group and a GI stock. Shoots well enough for me to hit whatever I am aiming at and the confidence it won't be getting up anytime soon"
So we have another endorsement on the chicom rifle. It is great after you replace half the parts and have a USMC armourer work on it. REALLY!!!

[UUURah]

Let's take any Military weapon, out of the crate, sight it in, and see what it does.

I was the first one to fire the M-14 I used at Parris Island. It was the very first Hi-Powered rifle I had ever shot, other than 22's. By the time Qual Day was over, I had put 9 out of 10 in the black at 500 yards.

Gee, if someone had been able to "Poly Tech" it, I could have probably put 10 out of 10 in the black at 500 yds.

[Stephan]

I've got two Polytech M14S rifles and a Springer M1A.

The Chinese stocks and springs are 'soft'...one of the Poly rifles could use a new bolt..the other one is just fine with the Chinese bolt.

These were cheap back in the day. I paid $575 for a brandnew one....a month or so later got another one near new at a gunshow for $300. Back then(1990's) I paid $800 for my M1A used at a gunshow.

[John Kepler]

"Yes, my Poly has been worked on by a Marine Armourer. It has a Wn. Bolt and is steel bedded into military birch stock, it has a Sadlak titanium scope mount, Badger Ordinance rings, and a 10X SWFA Super Sniper mildot scope."

I would say hardly an endorsement , if it needed all that work. If you told us it did those accomplishments straight out of the box , that would be different.

Yeah.....well.....maybe so, but you SHOULD be aware that a USGI M-14 won't do that without a fair amount of "professional help" either! FWIW, my CAI-Norinco M-14 was a solid 3 MOA rifle right out of the box. It was so good, in fact that with very few changes (none that weren't required by ANY "stock" rifle!), I had the rifle VERY close to 1 MOA, and fired the rifle in both National-level Service Rifle and Long Range. The Chink barrel was simply phenomenal......I was sorry to see it go at roughly 5000 rds, or about the same round-count as the Kreiger that was added next. Dimensionally, the receiver makes a Springfield Armory casting look like a paperweight....the safety bridge, always a bit of an "adventure" with an SA receiver, is dead nuts in the Chinese jobs. The rifle shot me to Sharpshooter in both XC and Long Range, it's on its 3rd barrel, and is still my LR Service Rifle when I decide my eyes are up to it, and I have turned down $2800 for the rifle. So.....what's your major malfunction?

[Clark Howard]

Thank goodness our government recognized the threat presented by these rifles and prohibited their importation some years ago. Otherwise, the country would have been flooded with reasonably priced high quality sporting weapons. Just look at the havoc they have caused in our neighbor, Canada. Remember to vote dem or rino in the next election! Regards, Clark

[BudT]

Yes it is a relief that these superior quality rifles were no longer allowed to be imported. Just think where the junk company's like LRB or Springfield Armory and their inferior products would be if they hadn't been protected by the consumer friendly government. Anyone interested some high quality Chinese products, children s toys panted with lead paint for your grand kids.

[swampyankee]

" I have turned down $2800 for the rifle. So.....what's your major malfunction?"

You turned down $2800 on a used chicom piece of junk and are bragging about it. I have to ask, who is dumber the guy who offered you the money or you for refusing it. If that story is even true.

[John Kepler]

Bud, it was 1996, my rifle and I had just won the NRA Midwest Regional Long Range Service Rifle match (the only time I ever beat Ed Shank!). That's what good comp rifles cost back then, and my rifle was demonstrably a good comp rifle by the only measurement that means a damn, your "opinion" of what constitutes "junk" notwithstanding! What IS your problem there Chum? You pass on one you should'a bought or what. Oh......the rifle STILL isn't for sale, though I did build 5-6 more of them for friends.....they won't sell them either! In over 50 years of active shooting, almost all of it in some form of competition....I have YET to see a target that was the least bit impressed by the appearance or pedigree of the rifle firing at it.....what shoots good, IS good!

BTW, I realize I'm old, but is Ron Smith a name you recognize? When the Chinese receivers started arriving in the US, he quit making his own forged/milled receivers and started building rifles that cost more than a good used Buick on PolyTech receivers....they sold for quite a bit more than I turned down for my rifle! You may need to get out a little more!

[swampyankee]

I,I, me,me. Roosters that crow to much are usually weeded out of the hen house.
The norinco is junk. Yes it has a forged receiver which someone can work with but all the rest of the parts on it are complete crap and you know it. No one was paying $2800 in 1996 for a match 14 unless there was a ton of work to be done on it like replaceing every part. Listening to you, maybe you did and are hopeing someone will buy your chicom mistake.