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Replica Navy double-lug match M14 project parts collected

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Most of the project parts have been collected for a replica of a Navy “Grade A” match M14. This weekend I was able to finally paint the handguard with a custom color-match to the “battleship gray” color of the vintage (early 1990s) McMillan M1A stocks made for the Navy rifle team. These stocks were specially inletted for the Navy double lugged receivers.

Just need to find a USGI style NM op rod guide, NM front sight, and then ship it off to Forceman for the front and rear welded-on lugs; barrel install, bedding job, etc. The receiver is a 106k SAI, and the barrel will be a 1993 dated USN Barnett/Douglas heavy barrel. It will have various USGI parts, and all the accuracy tweaks used on the old Navy match rifles. Pics for anyone interested in this type of replica M14 project:

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It fits my collection interests and should be a neat companion for my replica USMC double-lugged match rifle that Forceman built for me five years ago.
 
#9 · (Edited)
Pictured with my parts is a modern commercial one-piece Badger Ordnance NM spring guide, but I need the two-piece USGI op rod guide to be “correct.” Below is what I need for this rifle, either in the white or Parkerized. Two pieces soldered together, sometimes with a small pin added on the end for extra strength:
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(Picture from CrazyNoto who made these years ago).
 
#11 ·
Random Guy said:
Pictured with my parts is a modern commercial one-piece Badger Ordnance NM spring guide, but I need the two-piece USGI op rod guide to be “correct.” Below is what I need for this rifle, either in the white or Parkerized. Two pieces soldered together, sometimes with a small pin added on the end for extra strength:
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Had a feeling that was what you were talking about. Thanks for the pic RG.
 
#14 · (Edited)
I have to ask, why not just make one? Looks like a pretty easy thing to make to me.
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If I was a skilled machinest who also had some welding or robust soldering skills I would make some…but I am not, nor do I work with the required equipment to fabricate them accurately. I know my limits.

The color matched HG looks great. Was it a spray paint?
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Thanks. It’s a custom matched urethane paint that I diluted and sprayed with a motorized paint gun. Not the easiest process, but I figured it out on the second attempt. (For testing/practice I used a spare SAI handguard). I think it will work aesthetically.
 
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