Modifying And Modernizing Your Classic M1. M1. AIn my seemingly never ending quest to acquire long range rifles, I initially skipped over the. My first real distance rifle was my. Win Mag project. More recently, I had the opportunity to pick up a. Lapua. The problem is that shooting the. Springfield M1a Scope Mount InstallationWin Mag isnt a cheap proposition, and the. I decided that I wanted to get something that was a bit cheaper to shoot, but I didnt really want another bolt action gun. And my interest in military rifles eventually brought me around to the M1. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Welcome to M14. ca, a resource for M14 rifle owners and home to the Blackfeather RS rifle stock platform and our new generation, 4 point M14M1A scope mount, the. Springfield Armory M1a Scope Mount Installation' title='Springfield Armory M1a Scope Mount Installation' />M1. Springfield Armory was only too happy to provide in exchange for a fair amount of cash in the form of an M1. A . In some ways, the venerable M1. It had a rather short lifetime as the main service rifle of U. S. forces, serving in that capacity for only eleven years 1. It missed the Korean War by four years and while it saw service during the first part of the Vietnam War, by the mid 1. M1. 6 for front line infantrymen. One of the reasons for its abbreviated service was that it had been designed to fight an earlier kind of war. Style Xp New Themes. It shared a number of design similarities with its precursors, the M1 Garand and the M1M2 Carbine. In many ways, it attempted to bridge the gap between the hard hitting, but slow to reload Garand and the fast to reload, full auto capable, lower powered cartridge of the M1M2 Carbine. Unfortunately, pairing a full power. M1. 4 into a not so accurate bullet hose with the giggle switch turned on. Besides its inaccurate full auto capability, three things bedeviled the M1. Vietnam. First of all, in creating the M1. Garand in the jungle warfare environments. Lugging a rifle that big and heavy 4. Second, the wooden stock had a tendency to warp in the humid Southeast Asia climate, impacting accuracy. Finally, the full size 7. M1. 4 was fairly heavy in quantity which meant that a soldier could carry fewer rounds in his standard loadout. In 1. 94. 8, the Army organized its Operations Research Office. They charged it with reviewing battlefield reports from World War II and developing some conclusions and recommendations. Over the next few years, the office reviewed over three million such reports. COBRAY, WILSON COMBAT, NC STAR, mac bags, m11 range bags, m11 semi auto gear bags, mpa gear bags, machinegun bags, holsters, mac holsters, shooting bags, assault. This is a review from Shooting Times on the Springfield Armory 4th Gen M1A Scope Mount. Find out how to give your Springfield Armory M1A a custom touch. One of their conclusions was that in war, most combat takes place at relatively short range. Troops would often encounter each other by surprise and the guys with the greater firepower tended to win the day. The ideal, therefore, was full auto capability and a lot of bullets that could be hosed in the general vicinity of your enemy. These conclusions didnt help the M1. The M1. 4s replacement, the M1. Railroad Pioneer Patch. Its composite furniture made it more resistant to humidity. At 8. 7. 9 lbs. loaded and an overall length of 3. Finally, since 5. Of course, things that look good on paper dont always transfer to real life and the M1. M1. 6 proved to have its own set of shortcomings. One being notably less lethality, due to the weaker 5. The funny thing about all of this was that the M1. Switch it to semi auto, put some decent glass and a good barrel on it, and you have yourself a semi automatic sniper rifle capable of engaging targets out to 8. The M1. 4 became the basis of the Armys M2. M2. 5 variant developed jointly by U. S. Army Special Forces and the Navy SEALs and its still popular with certain areas of the armed forces. This is due in large part to the change that is happening in sniper doctrine. While the bulk of military sniping work is still performed by bolt action rifles, in his book, The 2. Century Sniper A Complete Practical Guide, former SEAL Sniper and developer of the current SEAL Sniper Training Program, Brandon Webb makes the point that in the urban combat environment in which more battles are being fought, the ability of a sniper to acquire and engage multiple targets in rapid succession can mean the difference between life and death for the men in his unit. With this in mind, his contention is that military sniper doctrine is changing with respect to the weapons used, moving from the traditional bolt action to semi automatic platforms such as the M1. FN SCAR Heavy. While there are excellent new semi automatic sniper rifles being developed the aforementioned SCAR for example, the U. S. Military still has a fair number of M1. Rather than undertaking the multi year labyrinthine procurement process for a new line of  weapons, many in the military are turning to their aging M1. Its not as easy as it sounds, however. One problem is that the stock M1. It was designed at a time when rifle accessories were largely limited to iron sights, the occasional scope, and a bayonet. A scope mount can be retrofitted to the receiver and a bipod attached to one of the sling mounts, but thats about it. Compare that to todays multi rail beasts that can support lasers and inline night vision devices and you quickly see that something needed to be done. Fortunately, something has been done. While the core of the M1. World War II era stock design with something that supports todays modern rifle accessories. In the last few years a number of manufacturers have come to market with total conversion systems that take the guts of the M1. These replacement stock systems run the gamut from the relatively inexpensive 3. Promag Archangel to pricier precision stock systems that cost north of 1,0. As usual you tend to get what you pay for which is something to keep in mind if you decide to go down this road. Sage International is probably one of the most popular manufacturers of  military grade stock replacements for the M1. Their EBR Enhanced Battle Rifle stock is favored by many military operators. In fact, as of this moment, Sage is currently working its way through a military procurement contract, so clearly theyre on to something. Sage offers a number of different configurations of the EBR depending on mission, but they all follow the basic design of a forward rail set with an open top near the ejection port. The major differences are material choice, color, and butt stock selection. The EBR replaces the standard M1. Picatinny rail that runs along the top of the gun, a couple of shorter rails along the bottom and both sides, and a collapsible stock. While the EBR is a great replacement for the standard M1. On one hand, the Sage EBR doesnt require the removal of either front or rear sight meaning that they can remain as backups. On the other, the distance between the shooters eye and the end of the top rail means that absent some sort of jig, the only scope that you could realistically mount on this gun would be a scout type with extremely long eye relief. Hp Usb Disk Storage Format Tool 2.0.6 here. Sage acknowledges this concern and offers an accessory cantilever sight base that mounts to the front Picatinny rail and extends a sight mount over the receiver to enable proper placement of a scope for long range work. As I started to investigate my stock replacement options, I looked at the EBR. The main thing that slowed me down, though, was lead time. When I spoke to the good folks over at Desert Warrior Products, a major dealer for the Sage and other replacement stocks back at the end of September, I was told that while there was a good chance of getting a Sage in time for Christmas, any earlier was a crapshoot. Today, the delivery time horizon is more than three months. Fortunately, Desert Warrior Products has other M1. I spent some time on the phone with Chris from DWP discussing what I wanted to do with my rifle. Chris is a Vietnam Vet and spent a fair amount of time humping an M1.