I have a Norinco M-14S and I swear by it. I shoot 1' groups with it at 100yrds.

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Ive shot moose and deer with it, and put just about every kind of 308 round through it without a single misfire to to date. I dont know the price of the rifle state side, but in here in Canada I cost me $399.00 Canadian, which includes a mag, sling, cleaning kit and take down tool. I've used the rifle in 35 C to -25C weather and as I said have never had a misfire. I know it's not the be all and end all of rifles, and Springfields look nicer out of the box, but as far as I'm concerned it's the best deal out there. As far as my understanding is there were a number of rifles manufactured in the eighties and imported into the US by a company named polytech, these rifles had a number quality of issues.

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• I purchased a Norinco M-14 a few years back. I have been told that its rare and worth a lot of money because of the numbers on it. I was told that it was not a replica. It has the expoxy filled in the stock where the select fire used to be and on the back or the reciever, it says.M14.

And the serial numbers are C00671.ok I was wondering if anyone might could help me out with finding out anything about this perticular M14. What year it is? If its worth more because of the low serial numbers and other markings.does anyone know? Please help!!!

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If you can get a new manufactured one, it wont dissapoint. Everything is GI spec with the exception of the flash suppressor which has metric threads. I dont know what the low down is in the US as far as getting these chinese rifles, but all I can say is Norinco has come a long way, and while they may not look pretty out of the box, their M-14 and SKS are topnotch in my books. Importation of any type of new Nornico product is ban in the USA(since the 80s I think). Norinco has been one of the worst offendors of proliforation of WMD's, Medium to long range missiles, small arms, vehicals, weapons platforms, attack boats and so on and so forth. Especially with middle eastern countries and if I remember correctly they are the ones who helped North Korea go Nuclear and they have been aiding Iran too.

Not good people to help fund.The only way to get one is on the used market of product here before the ban. Yeah, Norinco is a badguy when it comes to America but I still have fond memories of my very first SKS (Norinco) bought brand new back in 1985. It shot straight as an arrow and was just a joy to shoot with. I made the mistake of selling it for help with my college tuition to a biker chick who had 'fu.k You' tattooed on the fingers of her hands. I actually accepted a check from her (which bounced, of course) after getting all sorts of identification first. I miss that old rifle. The woman was eventually caught (thanks to all the ID I'd gotten from her) and was sentenced to 5 years.

She was apparently stealing guns like this to feed a drug habit. She'd only buy them on Sundays, when all the banks were closed, from trusting souls who advertised their guns for sale in the newspaper and accepted checks from her. Hey all,Remember back to the late 70's early 80's. Polytech brought out their AK Legend series. It came in a few various forms,cost over a thousand $,and was raved over by American gun rags as one of the best AK systems around.When the Norinco, and poly SKS's came out they were OK too. I have a polytech.We rockwell tested the receiver and bolt.

The receiver was generally just under 60(This is good), but the bolt was about 40 and little soft. My gunsmith said that bolt hardness should match receiver hardness to avoid issues like undue wear on the bolt.The bolt would not close over a military field headspace gauge (Probably for an M60 machine gun), but would accept a.308 no go gauge. We replaced the polytech bolt with a TRW bolt. It was necessary to machine the face of the bolt ( some sort of diamond tool was used) to allow it to close over ammunition. The polytech barrel bore is chrome plated and my gunsmith said that using a reamer on such a chamber was not a good idea.

Gun seems to function, but will likely need some bedding work.I am presently looking for match rear sights for it. One of ridges around the base pin of the rear sight is not quite right.

Otherwise the gun is quite good. I plan to replace the sear setup eventually since they are said to also be soft.These guns were supposedly orginally supplied to rebel groups and perhaps the soft bolt might have been meant to last only a short time. Just a guess on my part. Also the receivers were apparently made on US of A fixtures and jigs that first went to tawain and then made their way to red china. The chinese are great businessmen.

This might answer your questions:What I did was take your question a step further, by pointing out that many Chinese AK's have the 'evidence' on the trunnion, not the receiver. Someone could theoretically switch trunnions and put it on an unmarked or little-marked post-ban receiver and claim it as a pre-ban.Most likely that won't be happening.but I thought you were bringing up that concept again. What the others said, they are pretty much clearly marked if you do some research beforehand for what to avoid.One tricky example I can warn you of in advance is Sile Imports. The pre-bans have model names like 56s-1, while their post-ban models(specifically ones caught during law changes) are marked 1-56s-1 with the extra '1' before the original model name.Other models from Sile use this extra '1' code to denote POST-ban status regardless of what the green-toothed lying gun dealer is trying to convince you of:).