Re: m1a range question
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: restless</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Extraction of a spent cartridge with the gas system off IS difficult, but not impossible.
An alternative to turning off the spindle valve would be to install a vented or adjustable Schuster gas plug, or a NM grooved gas piston.</div></div>
Funny you should add the Schuster plug because my unit armor drilled the plug in my M14e2 to slow her ROF down to about 4-450 rpm circa 1965-66. Then while playing around upped the ROF to appx 1100RPM by changing the gas port hole in the barrel, and gas cylinder hole. Then we changed the auto connecter, auto sear timing, an saftey bridge cut to complete the ROF change. I prefered the faster rate vs the slower. She was easier to hold on the high rate if you knew what you were doing. Trigger control for a 3rd burst was easier as well.
We played with the NM TRW's for long work as well and they would reach past 1k no problem, but you had to drive her right, an be selective with ammo an lot numbers. Battalion supply would trade anything for the correct lot numbers. We also ran Red an Yellow boxs marked Winchester, that they got from a PX state side, or Subic, depending on who was arriving first.
As for trigger time, I've learned a trick or two over the years, but then again 17 barrels on my own NFA E2 and many others on Std NFA 14's will teach you a thing or three.
I learned from the M14 master, his name,.. Master Sgt Rose. That man taught me everything I know about running the 14 family, an I owe him my life, for that. He could make any M14 no matter how dressed or issued,... walk on water. You would have had to see him in action, to believe it. His shooting ability is still talked about by those that were with him, or ever seen him shoot.
