Modernizing the M1A SOCOM rifle
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2023
- Taking a look at the M1A SOCOM and what upgrades we can add to the rifle to make it more of a modern platform.
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I have two M1A's and I just love how hard people work at keeping this 60 year old rifle alive. As long as people don't expect too much from this rifle it's fantastic.
Love my m1a models. I have the scout and the socom II. I have ar platforms, but they feel really small to me. The m1a, or m14, just fits me better. Im just one guy living in the country, and wont be going into battle and lugging a bunch of equipment around, so the weight isnt an issue for me. Most i may ever have to battle is a pack of coyotes trying to eat my chickens. Which really can be handled with a 22 lr
I've got the CQB and Scout Squad. Plus the good old M1 Garand. Never giving these rifles up.
Great video and presentation - no b.s. conversation and specifics on products in a clear concise manner
Thank you!
SEI makes a threaded barrel sleeve size of their flash suppressor, which has 5/8x24 on the outside for mounting cans. Also DC fs are available for their cans maybe surefire too. This is Easy to replace if you want to change the setup.
I saw those as well. Leave it to SEI to come up with the best solutions.
The addition of an EBR trigger shoe will make shooting with that pistol grip so much better... consider putting it a light weight Blackfeather RS chassis stock system when imports resume later this year.
I have a Socom and I absolutely love it! It's heavy though so I've been considering switching the nice cherrywood stock out for an EBR Mod 0 chassis. This was an awesome video and gave me a lot of ideas for it.
Glad you enjoyed it! The EBR chassis is a game changer for the M1A.
The EBR stock is also quite heavy. There is nothing light when it comes to an M1A. I tried the Arcgangel stock and that is pretty good except all the weight is forward so humping around with it gets tedious after a while.
@@rauldiaz5315 The mod stock isn't much lighter than the wooden stock huh? Well that's quite disappointing to hear. I was hoping an EBR mod would make it at least a pound lighter and augment the cool factor somewhat.
@@jebbroham1776 Check out Garand thumb video which he goes in detail on it. My unit switched out our M-14 wooden stocks to the EBR stock and really didn't like the weight. It is an accurate stock but the armorer has to do it with experience or your accuracy is shit as well as if you clean it and take the stock off for any reason your back to square 1 on accuracy. They were our DMR rifle/ sniper spotter weapons and were good for that for sure.
@@rauldiaz5315 Thanks for the input on that, I’ll definitely check it out.
Modernized is in 5.56...❤❤❤❤❤ The most user caliber
Sweet!
Sweet my man that’s dope build I want one just dont like the Weight and length of this Rifle but it always been my dream since CoD4. Might make one with Eotech 16CQB
Love that rifle
I have the Scout Squad rifle with the synthetic stock and i so dearly want the sage stock.
I can’t find a Schuster adjustable gas plug anywhere.
Do you have a parts list ?
I just bought the scout rifle and I am having trouble inserting the magazines and locking them into place.. I have owned the mini 14 and I had no problem rocking them in.
I'll be honest, it's not intuitive and it definitely takes practice to be smooth. It's finding the perfect angle and then rocking it back into place.
Im highly considering one. Thanks for the video. Hows it carry with a sling?
Really nice, just add a QD on the rail.
I have a tanker. I actually prefer it. I do want to replace the upper shroud so I can install the SOCOM top rail.
Love the tanker!
Does the Tanker have interchangeable parts with the other M1A lines? I would love an old time look, with the upper shroud modularity of the SOCOM.
@@calebwhite1999 I'm not sure. The tanker and SOCOM are basically the same rifle with minor changes. I'm pretty sure the upper shroud and pic mount will interchange.
@@calebwhite1999 The tanker is just like the SOCOM, only it's in a wooden stock.
@@JeremyShoots2A thanks, fellas. Seems like I am going to have a tanker in my future then.
Hows the accuracy with that mount clamped around the middle of the barrel? Bad bad idea there but hey they did name their company after the US armory in Springfield Mass. so they could take advantage of the notoriety of the M14/M1A and it's design origin.
I mean... It's a 16" gun. This one isn't meant for precision. To be honest the SOCOM is more of a fun rifle to play with than a performance based 20" variant.
What did you do to take the heat off of your optic?? It's practically bolted to the barrel.
I had a SA Tanker model. I had to remove the rail and cover it with a full heat shroud. It cooked a Bushnell holosight one day at the range. After that, I remodeled it into an open sight range rifle. I removed the rail and put a normal heat shroud on it, then installed a NM rear sight with shrouded aperture. I did a few other things to it before selling it. Rested, that rifle could could put a cloverleaf on paper at 150 yards with open sights. Later, I recut the stock to fit my hands and checkered the grip and foregrip in a wrap around pattern.
It's one of the few firearms I've had over the years that I fully regret selling. Maybe one day the owner will sell it back to me. I hope he's reading. If you have it, you know. Black cherry stain. Red stained controls and lettering. Right-hand only grip. Vortex flash hider. Maybe one day.
Interestingly I have never had any issues with too much heat affecting my optics. I've run red dots, LPVOs and high powered scopes without issue.
The M1A is a beautiful platform, truly one of my all time favorite rifles is my Mk14 Mod 0 clone. I'll hold onto that rifle until I pass it down to my kiddos. Glad to hear you have similar fond experiences with the platform, hope you can get that one or another like it some day!
@@JeremyShoots2A . I'm actually surprised considering that it is just a block of aluminium clamped around the barrel. When I originally bought my rifle used, even used it was $1100, it had a Tasco ProPoint on it. The first time I took it out, it melted the rubber overmould off of it. Twice, I burned myself on the rail itself even after I stopped using an optic.
It is the one thing I have never liked about the modernized rifles.
Nope, my Springfield M1A Tanker came perfect as was. Nothing needed. Just a bunch of 20-round magazines.
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Put it in a Sage EBR stock and a bipod. Schuster gas system, Sadlak scope mount, Badger Ordnance scope rings and good luck with the thread pitch changer…and then add your suppressor
28? 30 lbs?? The only thing that sucks about those stocks is the weight. They definitely NEED a bipod. That is the price paid for modernizing an older weapon though.
@@RonnieStanley-tc6vi as a 44 year old, I still run 3 miles in 19:12
I still go to the gym. Spent my life in the Marines….I’m used to weight and taking care of myself and even the rifle itself in an Eblerstock gunslinger 2 pack, it’s comfortable.
@@MountaintravelerEddie . What I'm saying is you take a 20 pound rifle loaded and the modernized stock, scope, rings, sling, and bipod add an extra ten pounds to it. Being fit has nothing to do with anything. I'm 48, live in the Appalachians, and bike 10 miles thought the mountains twice a week. I was in the Army. And, it means nothing to the extra ten pounds. All of the tacticool crap doesn't make it any more tactical.
This is about an over weighted rifle, not a person's ability to carry it. And, I'm not not critical of the rifle. If anything, I'm jaded!
@@RonnieStanley-tc6vi hey Ronnie, it’s Eddie. My Mk-39 is 16.5 pounds, my M-21 is around 12.7 pounds (synthetic stock) the M14 DMR I have weighs around 14 pounds (yes it has a selector switch). This is just the standard weights of a big cartridge rifle. It’s a semi-auto, so you need the rigidity of the fiberglass stock at least, the wood just warps too much.
I did the AT back in 96’, so I know you’re near the trail. I used to live in Connecticut and used to go up to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass and the Catskill mountains a lot, beautiful area. I’m now living in the mid-west because I don’t like the gun laws in those areas, plus I can’t shoot far on that side of the U.S.
@@MountaintravelerEddie . I am actually near Smith Mountain Lake in VA. Just down the road from the Blue Ridge Parkway.
I’m definitely friends with the monster under my bed.
In my opinion, less talk, more pew pew
Sexy gun brother I like it well done
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Right now (12/3/2023) we have many examples of REAL life or death action as close as our RUclips screen. Just look at the soldiers now fighting for their lives in Ukraine and Gaza and watch the news for other conflicts around the world. I have yet to see any Ukrainians with fancy rred dot gadgets or Israelis with that kind of crap. I saw Israelis with 40 year old Colt carbines with the old fiberglas handguards and one with an aluminum commando sliding stock, well worn. I am sure there are more. THere's nothing wrong with the M1A juat as it is. If the average fellow out there wants to LIVE through the coming travails, the FIRST thing that he needs to do is call on his own combat experience. Failing that, just rent another movie and continue the fantasy. Nine pound rifle, another three pounds of crap to hang on it. Oh yes, and don't forget to tape a few pairs of magazines together.
Optics on that thing just look wrong. It has killer irons too so old school is better.
wow,,, so much weight and unneeded crap. Why put a silencer on a battle rifle? You have to shoot subsonic rounds to have it work. A light is a joke unless it's your house gun. Tell you what, carry that rifle on an uphill 1 mile walk and let's see how much shit you take off on the way. Something tells me those are your sponsers. KISS
First off the M-14 was Obsolete before it was even adopted. It's the pinicle of the M-1 Garand design. It was the solution that The Government arsenal came up with based on the "Last War" head up the ass mentality. This is why it's the shortest serving Rifle in US history. The AR-10 and FN-FAL were way better rifles. I wasted a lot of years on M-1 Garand's, M-1A's,M-14's and Ruger Mini-14's. Can you do it? Sure if you want to spend a lot of money on a heavy obsolete rifle. Honestly it's just not worth doing. Mine sits in the back of the Gun Safe and only comes out for bragging rights because that's what it is good at. Especially when you can build a really nice AR-10 with a lightweight 16" barrel for under $600 and the manual of arms is the same as the AR-15. The M-14 is best left as a foot note in US government head up the ass weapons history.
If it's not broke....
Don’t broke it.
I'll admit that I want to have unprotected seggs with this smoke show. U nailed it, man 🦾
🤣 It's a badass!
“Modernizing” attaching a bunch of cheap Amazon bought garbage all over it.
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