M1A / M14
- Thread starter Gappmast
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Kreiger
Yep what he spelled ! LOL
FNSafari
Gold $$ Contributor
This is correct...in German a word with an ie, the second letter is the accented one...Kreeger in this case. Good barrels.
Old Navy
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I didn't know that.
tmwinds
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Neither did I. Now tell me how to pronounceI didn't know that.
Lapua.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Lap waa
Old Navy
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I bet the guys from Boston pronounce it different that the guys from Alabama. Went to a Navy school in Great Lakes back in the 60s. There were two guys that were best friends. One from Boston and one from Oklahoma. They could understand each other just fine but the rest of us didn't understand half of what they said. LOL
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
One of my best friends grew up in maine and went to the maritime academy there. His first experience with a true redneck more than just in passing was me. Me and him and a nigerian that worked for me went to a restaurant in houston and the waitress didnt understand a word neither of them said. I had to translate and she laughed that that may have been the first time a redneck had to translate for an african and a yankee. He taught me that khakis and car keys are the same word
With a M1A, if a short chamber is cut, the only way I know to finish hand cut the chamber is with a special reamer from Clymer that has long steel rod that is feed from the muzzle that then threads into the front of the reamer, then the reamer is pulled foreword with a T handle on the end of the steel rod sticking out of the muzzle end. The reason for this elaborate, and expensive reamer system is once the barrel is installed in the receiver, a conventional reamer can’t be used because of the receiver design. I never had done this, but Clymer is in my neck of the woods, and over the years my shooting buddy and I had visited Clymer many of times to either pick up a reamer, or headspace gauges, or just to see what wildcat cartridges people had dreamt up, and remember asking about their M1A chamber finish reamer, and it was demonstrated for us. Just something to consider. Brownells has this.These are screenshots of the reamer system.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Those “pull thru reamers” are actually the headspace gage too. You cut the chamber until the bolt drops then its zero
NorCalMikie
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Criterion barrels come to mind.
old_heli_logger
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Lilja?
hoz53
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i think Dusty is right on this one. Quite a few years ago I asked Kevin Thomas and he told me lap waa—
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Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Not only kevin but company execs that came over for a world championship one time told me that. Thats all i have to go by.
hoz53
Gold $$ Contributor
yes i think you are right. those guys outta know if anybody does
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