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 02-08-2010, 05:03 AM | #1 | Finley, Chuck Finley Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: CA Posts: 1,105 |  Where are you guys finding these M14/M1A's?
I noticed some of you here own numerous M1A's and a lot of you own at least one. I don't think all of you are paying the $1500 plus that Springfield is selling them for and Norinco doesn't import them into the USA. Is there a secret handshake that I don't know about?
I'm not saying I am going to go out and buy one right now(unless I maybe got a PM from someone who might have one too many), but before I got into AR's I was looking hard for one and I gave up.
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From the great speaker...er uh Barak Obongo
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| 02-08-2010, 06:22 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 1,126 |
If I had to guess, I would say that most of them were purchased some time ago when the prices weren't as high as today's MSRP. 
I bought my Super-Match back in the mid-90's but even then it was well over the $1500 mark. After Bill Klinton came along, everybody snatched up everything they could, while they could. I guess that showed Springfield they were letting them go too cheap eh? Fast forward to today's economy... 
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| 02-08-2010, 06:49 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sacramento, California, California Posts: 1,729 |
I acquired 2 of them in the late 1970's, they are older late 50's early 60's suplus varients, and the one I shoot now I acquired in the mid 1990's. And NO! I didnt pay any where near the prices they are asking for them now. The only one I have up and running now is the SAI I bought in the 90's. The other two earlier SA varients will be rebuilt when I can part with the funds to do so.
The M1A is probably the most fun rifle I've shot over the years. | |
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| 02-08-2010, 01:28 PM | #4 | Dead Wolves = Good Wolves Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Rochester WI, Rochester WI Posts: 8,314 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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used to have a norinco i bought for cheap in the late 80's early 90's cannnot remember exactly. sold it less than a year later. too heavy a rifle for my tastes to lug through the woods for the round it shoots. the M1A/M14 is another one fo those guns i never understood the fascination for. its too big and clumsy for what it is.
a lot fot he guns of that type are what people bought eons ago before the gun bans and just kept em or inherited em from friends or family. i cant imagine paying the current prices for one when there are better cheaper designs out there for the .308 | |
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| 02-09-2010, 12:41 AM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 861 Liked 1 Times on 1 Posts
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I think my M1A SA Loaded set me back about $1,600 a few years back...
Money well spent. | |
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| 02-09-2010, 03:29 AM | #6 | Supporting Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Acworth, Georgia Posts: 324 |
I see them often in gun shops now and they aren't cheap. I have two NM rifles that were $1800 plus and a standard that went for $1500 (including 10mags, ammo and scope and TSA mount). All are completely accurized to the tee. | |
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