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What sketchy things have you heard about the M1A?Garand
M1 Carbine
Ares SCR
Maybe M1A, but I’ve heard sketchy things about it.
SKS
if I’m limited to 10 rounds or less.
I'll start by saying..I own 2. One a brand new production match Springfield, the other a much older one put together by Springfield when GI parts were still to be had.
Both are 100% drop dead, no bones reliable. I have not had a single jamb or malfunction with the new one yet..out of close to 1k rounds out of it so far. The old one...that I've owned for dang near 40 years now..has chocked up one time that I recall, and that was because I was shooter the cheapest most horribad surplus ammo from Pakistan. I mean the stuff was just crap.
Now far as accuracy goes..its very true, bedding is everything with these rifles. The old one isn't bedded, has been in and out of the stock about a gazillion times..there is actually slop you can feel with the action in the stock, even lock in. It ain't a tack driver needless to say..but even in its present state..it will do 3 MOA all day long with dang near any decent ammo.
The new "match" grade...tack driver...all day long...BUT..its very temperate sensitive. It always groups, but the zero does move with ambient temperates. Not a big deal..if I take it out in the cold..it only takes 3 shots to see where its grouping and adjust, but still...its not 100% stable.
Outside of that...I don't have an experience with the M1A being sketchy..