M1a love

I stripped my M1A down recently to give it a good cleaning and reinstalled the flash hider which had come loose. I pulled the gas cylinder off also and scrubbed it out. I took it to the range today and was shooting about an 6" group high and to the right first, then about 3" high and to the left. It finally settled down to 4" high with the sight set to 200 meters and a tight group. I brought it down to 2" high for 200 meters and all is good now. It took about 10 rounds to get the rifle settled back from being taken to pieces 😁. I think the flash hider and gas cylinder remove and reinstall were the biggest contributor to the crazy grouping.
 
I would give attention to flash hider install. May be hitting bullet, it’s common without a correct installation.
 
I've had this M1A standard for a while and always thought it's not super accurate but somehow very easy to shoot accurately, if that makes any sense. So here's a shot of my neighbor shooting at the Coleman's Creek 1,200 meter range. Both of us were easily able to walk it out to 1,200 with the iron sights. I believe it's a 4'x4' steel plate but I'm still impressed.

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Tigerwitha88 said:
I would give attention to flash hider install. May be hitting bullet, it’s common without a correct installation.
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I checked, no sign of bullet jacket material on the FH.. The final 3 rounds were 1" measured center to center at 100 yards with FNM ball.
 
muskrat said:
I've had this M1A standard for a while and always thought it's not super accurate but somehow very easy to shoot accurately, if that makes any sense. So here's a shot of my neighbor shooting at the Coleman's Creek 1,200 meter range. Both of us were easily able to walk it out to 1,200 with the iron sights. I believe it's a 4'x4' steel plate but I'm still impressed.

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That is great shooting! My eyes are hopeless for the iron sights past 100 yds. Shooting at plates today I managed 2 out of 10 at 200 yds. The plates were a blurry white smudge through the sight.
 
They're plenty accurate.
We shoot them 200 yards at 8"x13" steel targets. After cleaning mine a few weeks back I had to walk the irons back into zero.
Three shots low right working it in...then three darn near dead center. Again, this is with irons at 200. The dot isn't even visible to me at that distance.

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I think the M14 peep is too small for my old eyes. Even though my M1A is more accurate than my FAL at 100 yds, at 200 yds I can see the target through the larger peep on the FAL. I was pleasantly surprised how well the FAL did on the 200 yard plates on a previous trip compared to the M1A this time.
 
rufrdr said:
I stripped my M1A down recently to give it a good cleaning and reinstalled the flash hider which had come loose. I pulled the gas cylinder off also and scrubbed it out. I took it to the range today and was shooting about an 6" group high and to the right first, then about 3" high and to the left. It finally settled down to 4" high with the sight set to 200 meters and a tight group. I brought it down to 2" high for 200 meters and all is good now. It took about 10 rounds to get the rifle settled back from being taken to pieces 😁. I think the flash hider and gas cylinder remove and reinstall were the biggest contributor to the crazy grouping.
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That's about normal, that's just the action settling back into the stock.
When you put it away, do you unlatch the trigger guard? If you leave it latched, the wood compresses over time and it can cause the resettling to be more pronounced.
Im glad it only took 10 rounds to settle in.
 
rufrdr said:
I think the M14 peep is too small for my old eyes. Even though my M1A is more accurate than my FAL at 100 yds, at 200 yds I can see the target through the larger peep on the FAL. I was pleasantly surprised how well the FAL did on the 200 yard plates on a previous trip compared to the M1A this time.
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Just ordered a Bassett scope mount, done with struggling with the irons!
 
I handled a buddy’s full auto Winchester M1A a couple days ago. I think he said it’s one of ~60 in existence? Dude has several full autos and claims this is by far his favorite.
 
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