Modernizing the M1A SOCOM rifle 

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 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.

Great video and presentation - no b.s. conversation and specifics on products in a clear concise manner

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 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.

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've got the CQB and Scout Squad. Plus the good old M1 Garand. Never giving these rifles up.

Sweet!

I have the Scout Squad rifle with the synthetic stock and i so dearly want the sage stock.

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

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 can’t find a Schuster adjustable gas plug anywhere.

Do you have a parts list ?

I have a tanker. I actually prefer it. I do want to replace the upper shroud so I can install the SOCOM top rail.

Nope, my Springfield M1A Tanker came perfect as was. Nothing needed. Just a bunch of 20-round magazines.

Im highly considering one. Thanks for the video. Hows it carry with a sling?

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.

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.

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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

I’m definitely friends with the monster under my bed.

Sexy gun brother I like it well done

This is an infomercial... product placement followed by product placement.

Optics on that thing just look wrong. It has killer irons too so old school is better.

Right now (12/3/2023) we have many examples of REAL life or death action as close as our RU-vid 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.

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....

“Modernizing” attaching a bunch of cheap Amazon bought garbage all over it.

I'll admit that I want to have unprotected seggs with this smoke show. U nailed it, man 🦾