were given a lot of hand grinding and polishing by Melvin Smith. An additional 120 rifles were built for Elmer Bal lance by Glenn Nelson and Wayne Young before June 1974 using stripped or barreled receivers supplied by Elmer.Ġ00001 to 063XXX Receivers machined by Valley Ordnance Co. in Texas assembled about 2000 complete rifles using USGI parts before it was sold to Bob Reese (Geneseo, IL). pdf format.Ġ00001 to 003700 Texas era receivers tend to exhibit one or more dimensional flaws as identified by retired M14 gunsmith Art Luppino. You can e-mail me for a complimentary copy of this in. Short answer: The collector’s choice would be a factory built standard model M1A rifle between serial numbers 0422XX and 063000. The M14 market seems to have cooled off in the past couple years, but with the political atmosphere we have now everything seems to be selling for a premium.Springfield Armory, Inc. I bought one with all matching Winchester parts, never fired on a preban Springfield receiver and got it for 2500, about 6 or 8 years ago. I have found a couple with a mix of all G.I. Without seeing it, a price would be tough. The G.I parts can have a impact on the price, a TRW barrel, bolt and trigger groups command a premium over say H&R. After that they went to a cast receiver, and the stash of GI parts were starting to deplete. The two events are not really related but just happen to coincide at the serial number just over 50K. Ironically the contract with Valley ordinance ran out at almost the same time the Clinton gun ban come into effect in 94. Those are the forged Valley ordinance receiver's, probably the best Springfield ever sold. When you say 5 line do you mean a 5 digit serial number? Anything below serial number roughly 50,000 are all considered the pre-bans.
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