r/M1A

9 more days until I can pick it up and bring it home!

What’s the consensus on scope mounts? I’ve asked a few questions but I’d love to really narrow it down and get one ordered. Here’s my simplified thoughts:

Sadlak: expensive and not in stock until April, but top tier

Utg: cheap and seems to sit too low for consistent ejection

Springfield: QC seems iffy, mixed reviews all around

Basset: not in production

CASM: sits quite high but otherwise good?

Picked this up on a private sale for $1295. Google tells me it has a good USGI barrel and USGI guts. It’s a 1980 dated national match with a Saco-Lowell barrel, TRW OP rod and H&R trigger assembly. It’s in a GI stock and has the bayonet lug still attached. Google says this would be a good collector’s piece, is that correct?

This is an old picture of my M1A with a Trijicon scope on it. I don’t know if you can tell by the picture but the rings that are holding it on the scope mount make it where the scope is too high up. These were the only rings the gun store had at the time when we were putting the scope on the rifle. I don’t like the scope so high up even though I can use the scope and then the iron sights too if I had too.

Is there anyway I can lower the height of the scope to where it’s not so high up and still be able to use the iron sights too? If so, how can I do that?

The scope mount that I have is the “Springfield Armory Steel Scope Mount,” from Springfield themselves.

Truth be told, I MUCH prefer this baby in a full wood stock for the aesthetics but for the sake of weight and ergonomics a more modern stock can’t be beat. This is my attempt to have the best of both, I still get the wood and steel but with the center chasis, it’s so much lighter and slimmer in hand.

Gives me Star Wars/Fallout vibes, pushing old tech into the modern world. What do you guys think? Open to ideas as well for improves, additions, and so on, I plan to add a light and other attachments but this is it as of just getting the chasis today.

Ditched the Archangel. Went with the Delta 14 and SGA combo. BadAces low scope mount paired with a Strike Eagle 1-6. Upfront is SEI suppressor kit with Surefire Brake. She is loud but very manageable