OK, once in a while you have to make space in the safe for a new rifle, and I find myself in that position with my beloved M1A. Daddy needs a nice accurate AR10, and momma needs daddy to sell one of his rifles to make that happen. If momma ain't happy, nobody's happy, and that includes all of you, so help a brother out here!
Offered for sale here is a package deal, including the orginal rifle, plus all the bling I've added to it. I don't know the exact round count, but it is defintely less than 350, including the 60 I fired just last Saturday. Face to face only, but I'm willing to try and meet someone half way if it isn't too far from the DFW Metroplex. Details and pictures below.....
- This is a "Loaded" model. The original purchase price was $1,729.95, at Euless Guns & Ammo. This one has an olive drab synthetic stock. (Website) The features of the "Loaded" M1A rifles include:
- Barrel: air-gauged medium weight National Match (available in stainless steel or parkerized chrome moly steel), 22" inches in length with a 1:11 right hand twist. (The rifle being offered is the parkerized version.)
- Front Sight: National Match .062” Military Post
- Rear Sight: GI Match Grade Non-hooded Rear Sight: Aperture .0520, Adjustable, One-half Minute for Windage and One Minute for Elevation
- 2 Stage Military Trigger, Match Tuned, 4.5-5 lbs
- Upgrades (the prices shown are what I actually paid for these items):
- Sadlack M14 Scope Mount, $160.00, Website
- SWFA SS-Tac 30mm Rings, $75.90, Website (the front ring has an additional rail on the top for mounting a light or something)
- SWFA SS 10x42 Tactical 30mm Riflescope, $799.95, Website (This scope uses HD glass and is extremely bright and clear; the windage and elevation adjusters are .1 mil, and the reticle is mil-dot.)
- Karsten's Cheek Rest, $59.95, Website (the adjustment knobs are set up on the left side because I am left handed, but they can be reversed in a couple of minutes for a right handed shooter)
- Fulton Armory Front Stock Swivel with Picatinny Rail, $59.95, Website
- Fulton Armory Aluminum Bipod Mount for Rail, $31.95 Website
- 7 Promag 20 Round magazines (6 of which are still in the package) from Midway USA, $118.93 ($16.99 each), Website
$1,246.68 Optics and Other Accessories Cost to Me
$2,976.63 My Total Investment in this Rifle (plus tax)
Price reduced to $2,200.00 for the package. That's $776.63 off of the total retail value, so I don't really have a lot of wiggle room there. I am not interested in breaking the package up because all of the extras except the scope are specific to the M1A/M14 platform. I won't be able to use them myself if I sell the rifle separately, and I'll have a much harder time selling them piece by piece, than as part of the package because M1A owners are a small market. Buy this package, and enter that fraternity fully equipped!
If I can't sell it here on the forum within the next few days, I'll be taking it to the Fort Worth gun show this weekend and trying to sell it there.
Alternatively, if someone has a precision AR10 like the Rock River Arms LAR-8 Operator or a DPMS Panther LRT-SASS and you would like to work some kind of a trade which includes a quality optic, I would be willing to discuss the possibilities. I am not looking for a 16" barreled rifle, so it has to be something in the 18-20" barrel length with a 1:10 twist, preferably threaded at the end.
I'll try to take and post a picture of the Fulton Armory swivel with the rail and the bipod mount.
Edited to add the information about the forged hammer.
But that's what I'd be doing if I had bought this beautiful rifle (although with much less, um, grace)
