There's a guy out of Bama that works the Atlanta gun shows and I would guess the Biringham shows as well that has some new in wrapper GI rods. The opereation rod is to important a part to trust to a hack job part. It has now meet it death by vise and saw. The beveled inner surface is where it showed up as a weld job. I missed it on first inspection as the outer surface machineing was very good. I picked up a used M1A not to long ago and it had a welded GI rod. After shooting a few hundred rounds you can't tell them apart as for deflection and strenght.Īs for M14 rods any of the GI one will do as long as you take care and don't buy a welded up piece of crap. The 77 spec's are a little tighter thats all.
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The 77 op rods are not any better than a standard 65 series anyway. Any 60's era military Operating Rod is now a valuable piece to the collectors, if you want a new part that will do the job well I would look at the Smith Enterprise part.Īs Wilshire said that's a Garand Operation Rod. Some prefer the TRW rod due to it's construction and there has been some reference to the Mercury rod as being substandard in comparison to the others. The only rod that is really the best one is the one that fits your rifle correctly and is not worn out or a reweld. There were some M14 rods made as replacement parts after the production of rifles ended around 1963, one is the SAK or General Dynamics and the other is a rod made by Mercury Machine & Tool. There were 4 manufacturers of M14 rifles during their production TRW, Winchester, Harrington & Richardson, and of course Sprinfield Armory. The reference is concerning M1 Garand Operating Rods produced post WWII. I just checked the Fulton website, I read the info you have posted. Here we have an example of the best M14 stock ever issued, as new as the day it came out of the original box - so what you get is an 'As New' M14 Rifle Stock, part of the original M14 manufacture, over 50 years old, with all the original As New metal. You'll see them both with and without the "NM" marking, but the rods are identical nonetheless." Winchester has a long heritage of producing rifles for the army, and the M14 was no exception. Quite a few went to Korea and have come back again as parts and on rifles. When the supply of good op rods dried up, this design was used for general rebuilds in the '60's. This design was originally intended for and used in the building of Type 2 National Match rifles at Springfield. It had a subtle change to the tube's curve to fit it somewhat more tightly around the barrel. I like to call it the "77" op rod, but as it is often found stamped "NM" it is widely known as the National Match op rod. "The final op rod design is that with drawing number 7790722-RA (Remington Arms) or -SA (Springfield Armory). Originally Posted By: juniorARshooterthis is what I am talking about (from Fulton Armory Page): Re: Source for M14/M1A Match Operating Rods?
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