Polytec M14?

[nupe]

Just wondering if anyone has any information on the polytec m14?  I seen one for about $700 and trying to figure out if it would be worth it.  I know that if I got it would need some work right off the bat, but not sure how much.

[jnevis]

I don't know a lot about the Polytech but I have read a lot of stuff on the Norinco version, mostly fair.  Lots of headspace issues but some are good and shoot well.  Luck of the draw basically, some suck others are great.  I did read a review that mentioned the Polytech as being much better than teh Norinco but I'd still be leary of a Chinese M-14, personal opinon take it for what it's worth.

[warhawke]

The Norinco's were absolute crap! The receivers were too hard and the bolts were too soft, they made good guns IF you spent a few hundred bucks getting the receiver tempered and replacing the bolt with a GI model. Mine was getting 1 MOA out to 300 meters, until the bolt got sloppy from being ground down. I've heard good things about they polytech's but I would be very leery about any Chinese weapons that wasn't an AK or SKS.

[tombogan03884]

The Norinco's were absolute crap! The receivers were too hard and the bolts were too soft, they made good guns IF you spent a few hundred bucks getting the receiver tempered and replacing the bolt with a GI model. Mine was getting 1 MOA out to 300 meters, until the bolt got sloppy from being ground down. I've heard good things about they polytech's but I would be very leery about any Chinese weapons that wasn't an AK or SKS.

The price is about $100 more than they sold for Brand new as well.

[nupe]

I've heard that if the recivers are tempered and the bolt is replaced that they do pretty well.  I've also heard of springfield recivers streching after 1000 rounds and polytec streching after 10,000.  Personally I would want more rounds to be able to go through a gun before it is worthless.

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[jnevis]

I've heard that if the recivers are tempered and the bolt is replaced that they do pretty well.  I've also heard of springfield recivers streching after 1000 rounds and polytec streching after 10,000.  Personally I would want more rounds to be able to go through a gun before it is worthless.

Having shot a few M-14s built in the 60s five years ago as part of a Navy Security Dept with unknown round counts (bet it was more than 10,000), our Springfield rifles worked just fine.

[nupe]

Having shot a few M-14s built in the 60s five years ago as part of a Navy Security Dept with unknown round counts (bet it was more than 10,000), our Springfield rifles worked just fine.

Yeah that's what I really didn't understand.  The people that I had heard that from said that it was because they are investment casted instead of forged and heat treated, but as far as I can tell investment casting has worked pretty well for ruger over the years. 

[tombogan03884]

Yeah that's what I really didn't understand.  The people that I had heard that from said that it was because they are investment casted instead of forged and heat treated, but as far as I can tell investment casting has worked pretty well for ruger over the years. 

Biggest difference is that SA M 1 A's are quality products made by fairly well paid skilled American workers, while Polytech/NorinCo is second rate crap made by slave laborers in PLA prison camps.

[nupe]

HAHA I did it.  I got a springfield M1A National Match.  I had to sacrafice one semi automatic .308 to get it but I think know that it was worth it.

[tombogan03884]

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