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M14 / M1A accuracy
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<blockquote data-quote="Jud96" data-source="post: 1833481" data-attributes="member: 69478"><p>My Dad was a member of the Army Marksmanship Unit in the late 80s when the M1A was in its prime as a competition rifle. He learned there how to properly build them. If you don't bed them right or put them together right you'll have problems, just like any rifle. There's a lot to people who have slapped them together and they don't have success with them. They're one of the most involved rifles to build and bed. If they're done right, they'll shoot 1/2 MOA legitimately. He said their rifles all had to shoot sub MOA at 300 yards when they built them. That's with military ammo, not handloads. When they loaded match ammo for them they did even better. He built his own M1A with a Hart barrel and mounted a M25 scope mount on it with a Nikon 6-18x. I've shot it multiple times over the years and it's a beast of a rifle. It will shoot ragged hole groups at 100 yards with 168gr SMKs at 2650fps. It has never "lost tune" or stopped shooting in the past 30 years he has had it and shot it. It's not abused or beat on, but it gets shot and used and it impresses me every time we take it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jud96, post: 1833481, member: 69478"] My Dad was a member of the Army Marksmanship Unit in the late 80s when the M1A was in its prime as a competition rifle. He learned there how to properly build them. If you don’t bed them right or put them together right you’ll have problems, just like any rifle. There’s a lot to people who have slapped them together and they don’t have success with them. They’re one of the most involved rifles to build and bed. If they’re done right, they’ll shoot 1/2 MOA legitimately. He said their rifles all had to shoot sub MOA at 300 yards when they built them. That’s with military ammo, not handloads. When they loaded match ammo for them they did even better. He built his own M1A with a Hart barrel and mounted a M25 scope mount on it with a Nikon 6-18x. I’ve shot it multiple times over the years and it’s a beast of a rifle. It will shoot ragged hole groups at 100 yards with 168gr SMKs at 2650fps. It has never “lost tune” or stopped shooting in the past 30 years he has had it and shot it. It’s not abused or beat on, but it gets shot and used and it impresses me every time we take it out. [/QUOTE]
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