Good Price for a Norinco M-14 NIB?
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Humm, for $600 I would buy it and shoot the heck out of it. But before buying it I would have the the chamber checked for proper size.
$600 is half the price of a SA and you can alway start replacing soft parts with USGI or send it to Fulton and have it upgraded.
The biggest plus is the receiver. I paid a lot more for my SA Standard grade and it is a keeper.
Understand.....MOA to me means I fired 3 rounds into an 8 inch plate at 100, 200 and out to 400 and I had 3 holes.
Buy it...
Karsten
$600 is half the price of a SA and you can alway start replacing soft parts with USGI or send it to Fulton and have it upgraded.
The biggest plus is the receiver. I paid a lot more for my SA Standard grade and it is a keeper.
Understand.....MOA to me means I fired 3 rounds into an 8 inch plate at 100, 200 and out to 400 and I had 3 holes.
Buy it...
Karsten
Give Gun and Knife M14 forum a try. Personally, I have no experience with the Norinco, just SA.
From what I've read, $600 is the most you should pay for one, so it's a fair price, but by no means a fantastic deal.
From what I've read, $600 is the most you should pay for one, so it's a fair price, but by no means a fantastic deal.
I imagine it partly depends on where ya are to.. that price is as good or better than I've seen around here (Boise), at +/- 650, but that price is for the Polytechs.. close enough to amount to the same, from what I've heard, with perhaps a slight edge to the Polys.
Sounds fair to me, though as said before, no wonderful bargain.
-K
Sounds fair to me, though as said before, no wonderful bargain.
-K
I would pass on any Chinese M14 version. A friend purchased one, and by the time he replaced most of the parts with USGI, he could have purchased a good used Springfield M1A. Plus, no one wanted to buy the Chinese for the amount of $ he had invested in it to make it work. He bought it for $600 and spent about $300 on parts, and sold it for $500.
I heard both good and bad things about a Norinco but almost all of the bad is from guys who own a Springfield or are trying to sell you one. On assualtweb.net some guys were actually bragging about their Norincos. The Norinco is no longer importable, but the only thing about them is that closed flash suppresor would have to go with one that had the slots milled out. $600.00 isn't a bad price at all. A dealer here in Denver has a used one and I think he is asking almost $800.00.
Ditto the bad/good on the Chinese copies. I'm sure everyone has different luck -- at the shop I frequent, word is the Polytechs often have better accuracy than the rack Springfields.. not bad. Also, you get a forged receiever, if such is important to you.
Consensus in previous threads points to --
1 -- do you just want a beater shooter, and don't mind crass comments on the line? If so, definately the Norinco.
(Yes, you will get crass comments -- I think a thick skin is a necessity with one of those babies.. or a private range)
2 -- do you want something finely polished, that everybody agrees is a nice rifle? Springfield.
3 -- want a "project gun" to work up to as near to USGI spec as you can get it? Polytech or forged Smith Enterprises receiever, lots of shop time at Fulton or Smith Enterprises after.
Much wisdom in the archives... all the above explained better than I could start to.
Have fun.. wonderful road.
(I'm partway through option 3 personally, for what it's worth.)
-K
Consensus in previous threads points to --
1 -- do you just want a beater shooter, and don't mind crass comments on the line? If so, definately the Norinco.
(Yes, you will get crass comments -- I think a thick skin is a necessity with one of those babies.. or a private range)
2 -- do you want something finely polished, that everybody agrees is a nice rifle? Springfield.
3 -- want a "project gun" to work up to as near to USGI spec as you can get it? Polytech or forged Smith Enterprises receiever, lots of shop time at Fulton or Smith Enterprises after.
Much wisdom in the archives... all the above explained better than I could start to.
Have fun.. wonderful road.
(I'm partway through option 3 personally, for what it's worth.)
-K
Zorro,
Just me again, Karsten.
I still say a NIB $600 M14 rifle is worth it as a shooter. Granted it may not be a NM and you may have to replace some parts after what 4000 to 6000 rounds, still you are ahead with a beater.
Buy it, build it the way you want and shoot it.
I was told to buy the SA NM but to myself that would have been a waste. I shoot practicaly...as I stated earlier MOA should mean 3 closely grouped holes in an 8 inch plate at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards.
My only concern would be to check the head space.
Just my Opinion
Karsten
PS I bought a SA M1A rack grade and I wont run you down at the range. Then again I don't do the lunch deals at the prissy country club ranges.
Where I live I imagine the spec LEO guys either fear me or want to go shooting sometime.
Just me again, Karsten.
I still say a NIB $600 M14 rifle is worth it as a shooter. Granted it may not be a NM and you may have to replace some parts after what 4000 to 6000 rounds, still you are ahead with a beater.
Buy it, build it the way you want and shoot it.
I was told to buy the SA NM but to myself that would have been a waste. I shoot practicaly...as I stated earlier MOA should mean 3 closely grouped holes in an 8 inch plate at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards.
My only concern would be to check the head space.
Just my Opinion
Karsten
PS I bought a SA M1A rack grade and I wont run you down at the range. Then again I don't do the lunch deals at the prissy country club ranges.
Where I live I imagine the spec LEO guys either fear me or want to go shooting sometime.