I'm a former US Navy sailor, served from '04 to '08, and qualled for the M-14 when I got to my command. Had you looked in our armory you would have thought we'd had a time machine it something as, other than our Berettas, everything else was old. We had the aforementioned M-14's, including one full auto version, M-60 machine guns, and M-79 grenade launchers. I shot better with the M-14 than I did the M-16 and would love to get my hands on one as a civilian.
Same man. I like the idea of the normal M14 but damn this thing was something else. The history behind it? The compact nature? The aesthetics? Hnnnggggggg
Wow! This takes me back. Decades ago after reading a magazine article about the M-14K (Firearms or SWAT Magazine I think) I was so intrigued that I got in touch with Tim LaFrance. I was very disappointed to find that it wasn't yet (nor ever would be as we now know) available to the commercial market. At the time it seemed like the best thing since sliced bread. I wish I still had that original article. Thanks for sharing this.
I like how you add in the generational gaps without any kind of disrespect which is rare. The common vernacular is "old bad, get with the new". Hella respect for the dudes that ran without the creature comforts that we have and dealt with the back problems and permanent hearing loss.
Recoil hurts my feelings and I drink my skim milk soy latte between my 5 round groups. /sarc Give it up for the old timers that ran hella cool shit with pure testosterone coming out their sweat glands
@@germaxicus6670 Gotta do it the way they did it, Recoil is confirmation of faith in your gun and ammo, screw that latte, drink it black or with sugar and creamer. Also, only clean out the water tank of your coffee pot, clean anything else out and it ruins the flavor. Ask a military vet if you don't believe me. lol :D
@@ScottAndScarlettsDarkHumorI’m no military anything, but I do work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week or more often time and I’m awfully aggressive about my coffee lmao, the dude is right, water tank only, and if someone makes a pot of bullshit, add a pinch of salt, takes away some of the bitterness
I remember as a kid the days when this gun and other classics were cut down and modified for "covert/special use". Years latter I got to play with some of those experimental bang sticks and talk with the guys that made them and now regret not getting some of them into my collection.
The chopped down RPDs are a personal favorite of mine. Something very infatuating about very efficient sneaky guys using these purpose built derivatives of less than sneaky guns.
OUTSTANDING! I've see photos of that before but no information on it. Being a history geek, I really appreciate the back story. I fired an M14 on Auto once, it really could have used a break like the one on the K model. Within 5 rounds, that M14 was vertical and it has a really fast cyclic rate of fire. Much faster than the M-16.
That intro... felt like I was back in '06, playing some shooter set in 80s Colombia where you play as some CAG guy in a Hawaiian shirt, aviator sunglasses, and blindingly white pants.
@@bad74maverick1 Yeah plus if there was no serial number on those babies he could say he built it and register it after putting a serial number himself or replacing the serialized part with a registered one he has and boom 💥 its legal.
@Twiggy the lizard yep 100%. I'd bet you lunch at Smith and Wollensky's that it's legal but you'd not want to take that bet either and we'd have to go dutch on the meal and who want that!? More than one way to skin a legal M14K cat.
That’s one of the cooler weapons I’ve ever seen, didn’t even know it existed! The M14/M1A has always been one of my favorite battle rifles, what a legend. A Springfield M1A with a match grade barrel chambered in 6.5 creedmoor, in my humble opinion, is one of the best rifles for the money on the market. Great video!
In my very early years in the US Army, I was posted to Panama in the mid-80s. We did a lot of cross training with South American troops. Back then the whole focus down there was counter drugs. I started humping an M60, for most of my career I carried a M16A2 with a fixed stock. While I love the M14 (I have two M1As in my collection) I never carried one in combat. I love collecting old 7.62 NATO service rifles.
I recently just got an old M1A that had been sitting in an old timer's gun safe for the last 40ish years its basically new and after putting around 500 rounds through it I love this platform so cool
You're right about the adrenalin thing. I carried a 240 bravo in Afghanistan. In gun fights, your hearing just shuts down. Suprisingly, even with no ear pro, my hearing isn't too bad.
Very cool. I used a full size M-14 as part of a boarding team when I was in the navy in the 80s. Fun to shoot, but awkward getting through the hatches and P-ways lol
Ron Smith has built many custom M14s for me, and we have discussed the K gun many times. Checking my notes, as far as I know all of the SEI built rifles destined for Columbia were select fire weapons. If Ron decides to build civilian versions of these next year, I would recommend a modified Blackfeather scout hand guard for mounting a red dot down low out in front of the receiver
@@sambaker3999 Yep, it's been verified as a real civilian clone. The rifle you have was not smuggled out of Columbia... it's never been to Columbia. Ron has build several civilian M14K guns, both semi-auto and select fire ... civilian sales of the M14K was from 1988 to 1990, and with any luck he will offer them once again in 2023.
What a cool variant. Moon rock rare is about right, since I've been an M14 fan for a very long time and thought I'd seen every variant made. Hadn't seen that one until now, and I was a fan of Smith Enterprises - even visited them in their old Tempe digs in the early '90's. If I'd known about that one back then, I believe there would possibly be 3 in this country. I'm really digging that M60 style gas system on it, but can't help but wonder why it was not duplicated in some of their other M14 variants.
Professional jealousy. The closest thing on the market is the Springfield Armory "SOCOM"🙄-16. Which was rumored to have been inspired by this. But looks fragile in comparison.
You see, this is what I don't understand;...those of us here in Phoenix who hung out at Smith Enterprises and did business with him saw these things there in the shop all the time. There can't possibly be only 2 of these, because I have been there in the Tempe shop and seen 5 getting packaged for shipping. (Probably a covert contract of some sort.) Ron always had this one at the gun shows trying to gin up sale for them. But since he wanted about $3000 for one back in 94',...well that's why they didn't sell. Then the SOCOM came about and that was the end. But there's no way only 2 exist, because I've laid eyes on them.
I live the m14/m1A, don't care about how obsolete and all that blah blah nonsense, it looks beautiful, it feels beautiful, it smells beautiful, it sounds beautiful, what other senses are there to please? Oh yeah it thinks beautiful too. Bam and it shoots the blessed 7.62 so all the whiners can go suck it.
I have personally talked to Mr Smith on the phone for hours about the M14. That man has taught me everything I know about it. That is one amazing rifle !!!
I've never truly understood the hate behind the M14 because at the end of the day it was just an M1 Garand that was slightly lighter and 7.62 NATO with a detachable box magazine there was a shortcomings of it but there's many short kinds of other battle rifles at the time.
We still had the M14s when I was in the navy in the early eighties. I'm a big fan of them. What I like about the rifle is you don't have to be a really good shot to hit what you need to. Just don't go full automatic because after the 3rd round, you're duck hunting, lol
with the stock folded this gives me serious "we put a shotgun shell in an M14" vibes, it really does remind me of like a semi auto shotty furnitured like an M14.. and I REALLY want one
The hearing damage mention hits home. Still have some hearing damage from like 7 years ago when a friend mag dumped an M-14 like a foot from me when I had no ear pro in 😂
Col. North was hung out to dry but all of this history conveniently faded into obscurity . This bad ass rifle and the history behind is awesome ! Thank you for sharing this content .
Col North was a volunteer scapegoat for Reagan and Bush they pissed on the constitution and the law. The congress outlawed funding and supplying weapons and material support to the Contras but Reagan and the CIA didn’t stop. They had North run the operation out of the White House that included arms sales with Iran another arms sale violation, but for the end result when it was uncovered the fall out was far ranging but here we go. Saddam Hassan went nuts when he found out that we were supplying both sides of the Iran Iraq war with missiles and intelligence, he sent a Mirage F1 with Exocet anti ship missiles out over the Persian Gulf attacking the USS Stark with 2 Eocet missiles the first penetrated the hull but didn’t explode the second hit the ship in about the same area penetrated the ship and exploded in the crew quarters killing 37 wounding 21, but it did stop there later a gun shy USS Vincennes shoots down a Iranian commercial Airbus A33 Iran Air Flight 655 killing 290 they mistakenly took it for a Iranian F14 Tomcat, but it didn’t stop there an outraged Iran contacted Libya to bomb Pan Am 103 that exploded over Lockerbie Scotland killing 259 on the plane and 12 on the ground. That is the chain of events that your hero Col North unleashed by being a good little Marine following the orders of his commander and chief while crapping on the law, the constitution and the oath he swore over 600 people died including his fellow servicemen. Oh and by the way the reason congress cut off all funding to the Contras was they were brutally killing innocent civilians the last strew was killing American nuns then blaming it on the Sandinistas. They were really stupid to continue to kill civilians while being investigated by a congressional committee but then kill a group of American nuns then try and gram the enemy was just plain nuts, they threatened the villagers but that didn’t work they all ratted them out they were tired of being killed by them. So much for your hero worship.
Oh and I didn’t even cover Col North’s obstruction of justice, destroying documents and lying to investigators. It was his you’ve hot secretary Fawn Hall that decided a centerfold was better than a prison cell that talked about the shredding all nighters, everyone wanted a Ollie North shredder they were the best 😂.
I'm surprised that such an M14 configuration wasn't developed during the early days of the Vietnam war for advisors as the short barrel and pistol grip/ folding stock would make it handy for jungle use.
Thank you for tuning into another episode of Forgotten Balaclava. I am your host, Admin McAdmin No joke, I have that wire folding stock. It came on my '67 10/22 as project Bubba gave up on. I finished the project. I love the look and the way it folds. It's really a superior design to a lot of folding stocks we have today, IMO *This Chassis is straight taken from the Beretta BM59 Para*
As a M14/M1A enthusiast I really enjoyed this vid. I've seen pics of the full stock version but haven't seen one fired. That report has to be deafening. Double ear pro for sure with something like that.
After firing a few different versions of the m14 I developed a fondness for them. I have yet to do a full auto m14 but I have heard it's an experience worth having. This version I didn't even know existed. It has given me some ideas for a build.
If you’re close enough to Kentucky they have a machine gun shoot every year , there’s a man there from bowling green Kentucky that had m-14 s and BAR’s , but 25 years ago he was getting $1.00 round, bet its-a lot more that that now ,
Awesome vid Admin, (like always) i remember seeing this weapon in a Soldier of Fortune mag in the late 70's or early 80's when all that mayhem was happening in central America.
I saw a similar weapon about 10 years ago. Built with a M-60 gas system on a M-1A rifle also with a 13 inch barrel, but with a modified wood butt stock. Made me want one. Apparently, most of the powder of a 7.62×51/.308 is burnt in the first 12 inches of the barrel, so muzzle blast/flash is minimal.
Closest modern equivalent, ( non- SBR ) would be a Springfield Armory SOCOM-16 with a McMillan MFS-14 side fold stock. I had one. Install an Ultimak top 1913 rail in place of the short factory rail, ( with the optic of your choice, ) then you're in business. They're a hoot!
Nice video. I have a LaFrance M14K Transferable machinegun. I collect transferable machineguns, but most specifically LaFrance guns. He did a lot of unique guns such a the two gas /porttube M16K and the M14K with a M60 gas system. LaFrance and SEI were the only two SOT-07s that made transferable M14k's that I am aware of.
Tim LaFrance (LaFrance Specialties) also offered both the M16K and M14K in semi auto versions. They are as rare as the full auto ones, but when you do come across one once every 3-5yrs, they are still about 7K for the MK14 and 10K for the M16K. FA equivalents are about 25K and 40K respectively.
Wow! Never knew this existed! Carried a NM M1A on the DMZ in '88 as a daytime DMR rifle on MACE (counter infiltration) team. M16 A1 with PVS-4 was my night time rifle. Loved the M14 ever since. The power and reach made me feel more comfortable with it vs. the M16. Could see using this in the bush for sure!
The M14 is a great gun alongside the M1 Carbine which you can actually see in the opening clip with an M16 and M60 which we supplied to anti drug operations down in South America back in the day.
I've held and sold some pretty rare colts and other guns but this by far outside of transferable machine guns is the rarest thing I've seen...I didn't even know they existed.
I had an M1A1 years ago; the basic civilian version in .308, it was huge and very heavy , but very reliable . that one makes more sense as a truck gun, but I guess it’s rarity makes that not possible . I suppose the new shortened versions are similar . my go to semi auto .308 is an LWRC REPR, great video, I subscribed
I trained with the 1st BN Counter Guerillas and those are some bad dudes. Their engagements from what they told us was within 100yrds a lot of near ambushes. Most combat in the jungle so with that said the M14k mades a lot of sense to me and the environment it was ment for.
I was going to comment something like “Insert off brand version of Garand Thumb etc” but after hearing the next couple minutes of the video, whilst commenting said comment. I changed my mind, I actually enjoyed your content.
This thing was probably designed to be more of secondary marksman's rifle for those using short range firearms like pistols, shotguns or SMGs in CQC. For a long time, nobody had the answer for this. A lot of guys relied on a .44 or .357 as a backup pocket sniper. I personally carried an M1 Carbine, Mare's Leg and shortened 8mm Mauser for this reason.
What an awesome piece of history, so sweet to see something like this! A dream gun I didn't know I needed. if someone isn't already making clones of this they should be!
I own several M1A's I really like the scout squad version. It has a 18" barrel IIRR....and a provision for a LER scope or red dot. I had a 16" barreled M1A I think it was called a socom....It was LOUD as hell. It went down the road to another home for that reason only.
Love the M-14! This would be an interesting addition if it wasn’t so rare. Are there more accurate big caliber battle rifles? Sure! But there’s something about the M-14
YOU THINK I CARE HOW TO SPELL COLUMBIA? I FEXED THE SPELLING FOR THEM
Fexed
what is spelling never heard of it
Nailed it
It happins Baclava man
When are you going to drop the "Big Chimpin'" merch?
The fact that you got your hands on this forgotten weapon before Ian McCollum did is truly impressive!
ian got taste for old ww2 more than this mk14
Ian has 3 of these in his garage....lol..even though there are only 2 in existence
This gun was never forgotten .
Not really, Ian McCollum doesn't know much about guns
@@FirstnameLastname-wo2zq I mean he knows more then me and you will my friend
This is straight up the rarest gun I have watched a video for. I haven't even heard of this gun before.
Get this gun to Gun Jesus @Forgotten Weapons
Never seen gun Jesus huh?
@@chrism4008 where’s his M14k video though?
Yeah I haven't heard of this one either. I haven't said that in a while
@@jaksahn3370 like one guy said in the comments, pretty sure the legit versions were all select fire, so this would be a repro
Maybe the real Moon Rock Rare M14k was the friends we made along the way
Wholesome comment
Love the wholesomeness, but also, what does this mean?
We made many. How many were lost.
Was it worth it.
@@William_Bryant Friends
Is this M14k as fake as all the "moon rocks" floating around?
Epic af. I will spend the next week identifying as the mk14k in solidarity.
lol
is this really arm & gun?!
@@adamarmstrong5780 👋🏻
@@armandgun boom diggity
I'm a former US Navy sailor, served from '04 to '08, and qualled for the M-14 when I got to my command. Had you looked in our armory you would have thought we'd had a time machine it something as, other than our Berettas, everything else was old. We had the aforementioned M-14's, including one full auto version, M-60 machine guns, and M-79 grenade launchers. I shot better with the M-14 than I did the M-16 and would love to get my hands on one as a civilian.
I qualified with a 1911 870 and the M14 when we entered the Persian Gulf on the Helo Pad too and I love the M14 is my favorite rifle!
Springfield M1A scout squad in semi is 1200-1700 bucks , i know, i know .. goddam thats a lotta munny but you deserve it
Imagine designing a gun so effective the receivers declare you a main quest raid boss.
it doesn’t have select automatic😭😭😭
Dude, the editing and filming is top tier ever video. This quickly became one of my favorite channels
He's been nominated for a Larpy.
Love this channel
@@practicallysocial
Of?
I'm also one of the people who doesn't really care about the m14, but this thing is cool as shit
Same man. I like the idea of the normal M14 but damn this thing was something else. The history behind it? The compact nature? The aesthetics? Hnnnggggggg
@@AdministrativeResults 🤨📸
@@AdministrativeResults caught in (m1)4k
Springfield needs to make an M1A variant.
The m14 is such a pointlessly weird rifle. There were already normal rifles like the fal at the time but for some reason we got garand part 2 instead.
There will always be a place in my heart for the first few seasons of Narcos. What an epic series.
I have binged it four times over the years. Such a great series. You feel transported to 1980's Colombia.
Seasons 1-3 are the best television ever made. Especially once Los Pepes arrives on the scene. I gotta watch it again now.
bruh, if u think that was good you HAVE to watch a show called Zero Zero Zero...next level narco show...its up there with Sicario
@@kiltrofilms Is ZeroZeroZero better than Profugos?
@@kiltrofilms Zero Zero Zero didn't have shit on Narcos, wasn't even that good imo. Each to their own though I guess.
Wow! This takes me back. Decades ago after reading a magazine article about the M-14K (Firearms or SWAT Magazine I think) I was so intrigued that I got in touch with Tim LaFrance. I was very disappointed to find that it wasn't yet (nor ever would be as we now know) available to the commercial market. At the time it seemed like the best thing since sliced bread. I wish I still had that original article. Thanks for sharing this.
Read the same article.
@@thmsmgnm.4513 What's the article called? I'd like to read it.
I remember that article as well
Same here. Don't remember the mag, but I vaguely remember reading about it or something similar.
Why wasn't it available to the commercial?
I like how you add in the generational gaps without any kind of disrespect which is rare. The common vernacular is "old bad, get with the new". Hella respect for the dudes that ran without the creature comforts that we have and dealt with the back problems and permanent hearing loss.
They are cooler than us
Recoil hurts my feelings and I drink my skim milk soy latte between my 5 round groups. /sarc
Give it up for the old timers that ran hella cool shit with pure testosterone coming out their sweat glands
@@germaxicus6670 Gotta do it the way they did it, Recoil is confirmation of faith in your gun and ammo, screw that latte, drink it black or with sugar and creamer. Also, only clean out the water tank of your coffee pot, clean anything else out and it ruins the flavor. Ask a military vet if you don't believe me. lol :D
@@ScottAndScarlettsDarkHumorI’m no military anything, but I do work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week or more often time and I’m awfully aggressive about my coffee lmao, the dude is right, water tank only, and if someone makes a pot of bullshit, add a pinch of salt, takes away some of the bitterness
@@sancheznish8285 Don Francisco Hawaiian Hazelnut. No need for creamer just don't fuck up the water to bean ratio. Delicious on its own.
Rare guns are always a treat. How on earth does admin keep tracking them down?
never underestimate the HUMINT powers of a dude in a balaclava
He has a lot of connections in Columbia
Cartel connections i guess.
Its not who you know its who you blow...
He's really Ian "Gun Jesus" McCollum.
The balaclava is to hide that fact.
I remember as a kid the days when this gun and other classics were cut down and modified for "covert/special use". Years latter I got to play with some of those experimental bang sticks and talk with the guys that made them and now regret not getting some of them into my collection.
The chopped down RPDs are a personal favorite of mine. Something very infatuating about very efficient sneaky guys using these purpose built derivatives of less than sneaky guns.
@@Pattamatt1998 stealth was an option
OUTSTANDING! I've see photos of that before but no information on it. Being a history geek, I really appreciate the back story. I fired an M14 on Auto once, it really could have used a break like the one on the K model. Within 5 rounds, that M14 was vertical and it has a really fast cyclic rate of fire. Much faster than the M-16.
MACV SOG had a cut down version of the M-14E2 in Vietnam, had a pistol grip forward. Saw it on the MACV SOG history page.
That intro... felt like I was back in '06, playing some shooter set in 80s Colombia where you play as some CAG guy in a Hawaiian shirt, aviator sunglasses, and blindingly white pants.
That’s oddly specific …
The sound of that Cessna flying over @ the end definitely helped.
Glad you liked it... it's a cover of tuyo, the narcos theme
The real question is, will the next person/people to make a new one of these wind up not only on the NFA registry but also on a hit list?
Yeah, an ATF hit list probably.
@@allenkennedy99 That's just the NFA registry. Literally the only reason it exists.
@@Raptor091288 But muh crime prevention???
NFA registry and hit list= same thing
I am “sure” nobody has made another one of these!
Props to the owner for letting us see this gem 🤩
He could show it to people in real life but he could serve a life sentence for that, it ain't worth it.
@@Fighting_Fatigue_117 It's a semi auto SBR. Smith also made these from 1988 to 1990 for the public. It's completely legal.
I think Sam is Sam Bankman-Fried and another federal charge wouldn't matter. Right now, he probably needs all the friends he can get.
@@bad74maverick1 Yeah plus if there was no serial number on those babies he could say he built it and register it after putting a serial number himself or replacing the serialized part with a registered one he has and boom 💥 its legal.
@Twiggy the lizard yep 100%. I'd bet you lunch at Smith and Wollensky's that it's legal but you'd not want to take that bet either and we'd have to go dutch on the meal and who want that!? More than one way to skin a legal M14K cat.
That’s one of the cooler weapons I’ve ever seen, didn’t even know it existed! The M14/M1A has always been one of my favorite battle rifles, what a legend.
A Springfield M1A with a match grade barrel chambered in 6.5 creedmoor, in my humble opinion, is one of the best rifles for the money on the market. Great video!
In my very early years in the US Army, I was posted to Panama in the mid-80s. We did a lot of cross training with South American troops. Back then the whole focus down there was counter drugs. I started humping an M60, for most of my career I carried a M16A2 with a fixed stock. While I love the M14 (I have two M1As in my collection) I never carried one in combat. I love collecting old 7.62 NATO service rifles.
I recently just got an old M1A that had been sitting in an old timer's gun safe for the last 40ish years its basically new and after putting around 500 rounds through it I love this platform so cool
The custom shop at Springfield is full of absolute M1A wizards that can work magic on that if you want to take to up a notch.
Definitely love seeing all the oddball and rare firearms on this channel.
I can’t exactly say why, but aesthetically this is in top 3 favorite guns of all time, possibly snagging the #1 seat
I never knew about this thing, it is sexy AF.
My family is from Colombia, I had an uncle who hunted some rebels in the mountains back in the day, however he was issued a Galil during his service
I have the M1A Socom 16, which is just a shortened version of the full sized M14, same caliber, .308. Absolutely LOVE it.
The aesthetics of this rifle are top notch
She's a Beauty
It's a ripoff of a Beretta BM59 para...
‘It’s bussin’ is the only way to describe the M14K lol love it.
You're right about the adrenalin thing. I carried a 240 bravo in Afghanistan. In gun fights, your hearing just shuts down. Suprisingly, even with no ear pro, my hearing isn't too bad.
Editing has been A+ lately,
A hitmarker-ass-slap to said editor, virtually
Very cool. I used a full size M-14 as part of a boarding team when I was in the navy in the 80s. Fun to shoot, but awkward getting through the hatches and P-ways lol
I believe the M14’s also were used on ship board to launch a line to the supply ship to ferry items across the tow line to get them on board.
Cool guy alert
Ron Smith has built many custom M14s for me, and we have discussed the K gun many times. Checking my notes, as far as I know all of the SEI built rifles destined for Columbia were select fire weapons. If Ron decides to build civilian versions of these next year, I would recommend a modified Blackfeather scout hand guard for mounting a red dot down low out in front of the receiver
A clone is certainly something I'd like to see, these are beyond cool
I can assure you this is not a clone. This is a real deal K. Smith verified it when I showed it to them.
@@sambaker3999 Awesome! Wish they would make another round of these. You have no idea (well maybe you did) how much I want one of these haha!
Well Ron smith is my dad and he said this wasn't a clone
@@sambaker3999 Yep, it's been verified as a real civilian clone. The rifle you have was not smuggled out of Columbia... it's never been to Columbia. Ron has build several civilian M14K guns, both semi-auto and select fire ... civilian sales of the M14K was from 1988 to 1990, and with any luck he will offer them once again in 2023.
What a cool variant. Moon rock rare is about right, since I've been an M14 fan for a very long time and thought I'd seen every variant made. Hadn't seen that one until now, and I was a fan of Smith Enterprises - even visited them in their old Tempe digs in the early '90's. If I'd known about that one back then, I believe there would possibly be 3 in this country. I'm really digging that M60 style gas system on it, but can't help but wonder why it was not duplicated in some of their other M14 variants.
Professional jealousy. The closest thing on the market is the Springfield Armory "SOCOM"🙄-16. Which was rumored to have been inspired by this. But looks fragile in comparison.
You see, this is what I don't understand;...those of us here in Phoenix who hung out at Smith Enterprises and did business with him saw these things there in the shop all the time. There can't possibly be only 2 of these, because I have been there in the Tempe shop and seen 5 getting packaged for shipping. (Probably a covert contract of some sort.) Ron always had this one at the gun shows trying to gin up sale for them. But since he wanted about $3000 for one back in 94',...well that's why they didn't sell. Then the SOCOM came about and that was the end. But there's no way only 2 exist, because I've laid eyes on them.
I live the m14/m1A, don't care about how obsolete and all that blah blah nonsense, it looks beautiful, it feels beautiful, it smells beautiful, it sounds beautiful, what other senses are there to please? Oh yeah it thinks beautiful too. Bam and it shoots the blessed 7.62 so all the whiners can go suck it.
Dang it the stupid spell checker crap always changes love to live, every time! We need more love in this world
@@HomerEscobar1 does it taste beautifully too???????? I need to know...
I've never even held an m14 but I've always loved its anesthetic. This one looks bad ass!
I have personally talked to Mr Smith on the phone for hours about the M14. That man has taught me everything I know about it. That is one amazing rifle !!!
When you said 1 of the 2 was in your hand I instantly felt uncomfortable about the situation.
This is the closest thing to a Forgotten Weapons video that Admin has done so far.
As a Chad M14 enjoyer, I want one
ME TOO!
I wish
Me too!
No doubt, beautiful rifle.
I've never truly understood the hate behind the M14 because at the end of the day it was just an M1 Garand that was slightly lighter and 7.62 NATO with a detachable box magazine there was a shortcomings of it but there's many short kinds of other battle rifles at the time.
My Lord, this rifle is GORGEOUS. A mixture of nostalgia with 80’s flavor. Simply beautiful.
We still had the M14s when I was in the navy in the early eighties. I'm a big fan of them. What I like about the rifle is you don't have to be a really good shot to hit what you need to. Just don't go full automatic because after the 3rd round, you're duck hunting, lol
The side by side of the Russian arms dealer and Flannel Daddy killed me lol
Lolx that got me
I love seein a dude living his best life
It hurts to see others living out your dreams, but when it’s AdminRes, its just not as painful.
Dig the 420 patch my guy. Did not realize until a day later how effective that brake is. Damn.
with the stock folded this gives me serious "we put a shotgun shell in an M14" vibes, it really does remind me of like a semi auto shotty furnitured like an M14.. and I REALLY want one
The hearing damage mention hits home. Still have some hearing damage from like 7 years ago when a friend mag dumped an M-14 like a foot from me when I had no ear pro in 😂
Col. North was hung out to dry but all of this history conveniently faded into obscurity . This bad ass rifle and the history behind is awesome ! Thank you for sharing this content .
north should have just actually been hung for real tbh. he got off scott free
Lol I love hearing this.
Quit your whining, he got a media career like all these other bastards
Col North was a volunteer scapegoat for Reagan and Bush they pissed on the constitution and the law. The congress outlawed funding and supplying weapons and material support to the Contras but Reagan and the CIA didn’t stop. They had North run the operation out of the White House that included arms sales with Iran another arms sale violation, but for the end result when it was uncovered the fall out was far ranging but here we go.
Saddam Hassan went nuts when he found out that we were supplying both sides of the Iran Iraq war with missiles and intelligence, he sent a Mirage F1 with Exocet anti ship missiles out over the Persian Gulf attacking the USS Stark with 2 Eocet missiles the first penetrated the hull but didn’t explode the second hit the ship in about the same area penetrated the ship and exploded in the crew quarters killing 37 wounding 21, but it did stop there later a gun shy USS Vincennes shoots down a Iranian commercial Airbus A33 Iran Air Flight 655 killing 290 they mistakenly took it for a Iranian F14 Tomcat, but it didn’t stop there an outraged Iran contacted Libya to bomb Pan Am 103 that exploded over Lockerbie Scotland killing 259 on the plane and 12 on the ground.
That is the chain of events that your hero Col North unleashed by being a good little Marine following the orders of his commander and chief while crapping on the law, the constitution and the oath he swore over 600 people died including his fellow servicemen. Oh and by the way the reason congress cut off all funding to the Contras was they were brutally killing innocent civilians the last strew was killing American nuns then blaming it on the Sandinistas. They were really stupid to continue to kill civilians while being investigated by a congressional committee but then kill a group of American nuns then try and gram the enemy was just plain nuts, they threatened the villagers but that didn’t work they all ratted them out they were tired of being killed by them.
So much for your hero worship.
Oh and I didn’t even cover Col North’s obstruction of justice, destroying documents and lying to investigators. It was his you’ve hot secretary Fawn Hall that decided a centerfold was better than a prison cell that talked about the shredding all nighters, everyone wanted a Ollie North shredder they were the best 😂.
One of those 30 round curved m14 mags and that's the most beautiful gun I've ever seen awesome find 👌
Man, that's a beautiful rifle. It'll be nice that a manufacturer decided to remake or clone these rifles
I'm surprised that such an M14 configuration wasn't developed during the early days of the Vietnam war for advisors as the short barrel and pistol grip/ folding stock would make it handy for jungle use.
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No joke, I have that wire folding stock. It came on my '67 10/22 as project Bubba gave up on. I finished the project. I love the look and the way it folds. It's really a superior design to a lot of folding stocks we have today, IMO
*This Chassis is straight taken from the Beretta BM59 Para*
"Maybe you're laying in bed." I am laying in bed. How'd he know that?
As a M14/M1A enthusiast I really enjoyed this vid. I've seen pics of the full stock version but haven't seen one fired. That report has to be deafening. Double ear pro for sure with something like that.
...this might be the coolest rifle I have seen on YT in a long time. Forgotten Weapons has to be drooling over this one.
CIA Drug Hunter gun made by "Mr. Smith?" This story copulates.
the mini m14 is like the little brother but he can still beat you to a bloody pulp. Just like his older brother the m14
After firing a few different versions of the m14 I developed a fondness for them. I have yet to do a full auto m14 but I have heard it's an experience worth having. This version I didn't even know existed. It has given me some ideas for a build.
Fully auto M-14's are nice. Got the opportunity to slam a few mags through them when I was a Gunner's Mate in the Navy. Fun times!!
If you’re close enough to Kentucky they have a machine gun shoot every year , there’s a man there from bowling green Kentucky that had m-14 s and BAR’s , but 25 years ago he was getting $1.00 round, bet its-a lot more that that now ,
Watch Dragon Man, he has one and shoots it on one of his videos.
@@MegaRiffraff Will look for it!!
I really appreciate when admin puts the song title in the description of the video, absolute banger
Awesome vid Admin, (like always) i remember seeing this weapon in a Soldier of Fortune mag in the late 70's or early 80's when all that mayhem was happening in central America.
Complete badassery!! Thanks for sharing this monster with the world.
You REALLY need to send this to Ian so he can take it apart for us.
That thing looks cool, like something that should've been in Far Cry 6!!
There's some cia "advisors" smirking at that round count
The same Smith Enterprises that makes the Vortex flash eliminator? Awesome!
I saw a similar weapon about 10 years ago. Built with a M-60 gas system on a M-1A rifle also with a 13 inch barrel, but with a modified wood butt stock. Made me want one. Apparently, most of the powder of a 7.62×51/.308 is burnt in the first 12 inches of the barrel, so muzzle blast/flash is minimal.
The recoil looks surprisingly manageable for a shortened M14.
Awesome rifle. I have never heard of a M14K until now, so thanks for sharing.
This tactidrip this man possesses is unmatched
Admin this inspired me so much and im not sure why. Cant stop thinking about this rifle.
Closest modern equivalent, ( non- SBR ) would be a Springfield Armory SOCOM-16 with a McMillan MFS-14 side fold stock.
I had one. Install an Ultimak top 1913 rail in place of the short factory rail, ( with the optic of your choice, ) then you're in business. They're a hoot!
As an m14 fanatic thank you for dropping this gem on my birthday🙏🏾
It's like you look at a gun and just feel it. Like that's so dope. You're right I want one now. I can feel the LARP coursing through my veins
Nice video. I have a LaFrance M14K Transferable machinegun. I collect transferable machineguns, but most specifically LaFrance guns. He did a lot of unique guns such a the two gas /porttube M16K and the M14K with a M60 gas system. LaFrance and SEI were the only two SOT-07s that made transferable M14k's that I am aware of.
Tim LaFrance (LaFrance Specialties) also offered both the M16K and M14K in semi auto versions. They are as rare as the full auto ones, but when you do come across one once every 3-5yrs, they are still about 7K for the MK14 and 10K for the M16K. FA equivalents are about 25K and 40K respectively.
very cool gun. we used to use the M14 in EOD before the M82A1 Barrett 50 cal came available
Wow! Never knew this existed! Carried a NM M1A on the DMZ in '88 as a daytime DMR rifle on MACE (counter infiltration) team. M16 A1 with PVS-4 was my night time rifle. Loved the M14 ever since. The power and reach made me feel more comfortable with it vs. the M16. Could see using this in the bush for sure!
The M14 is a great gun alongside the M1 Carbine which you can actually see in the opening clip with an M16 and M60 which we supplied to anti drug operations down in South America back in the day.
I've held and sold some pretty rare colts and other guns but this by far outside of transferable machine guns is the rarest thing I've seen...I didn't even know they existed.
Never been more proud to be Colombian in my life
I had an M1A1 years ago; the basic civilian version in .308, it was huge and very heavy , but very reliable . that one makes more sense as a truck gun, but I guess it’s rarity makes that not possible . I suppose the new shortened versions are similar . my go to semi auto .308 is an LWRC REPR, great video, I subscribed
If Flannel Daddy was really one of the smugglers, then there are actually three of these in existence.
That maybe the aesthetically coolest gun I’ve ever seen… I love mid century/Cold War era rifles. This one has major Fallout vibes to me.
I trained with the 1st BN Counter Guerillas and those are some bad dudes. Their engagements from what they told us was within 100yrds a lot of near ambushes. Most combat in the jungle so with that said the M14k mades a lot of sense to me and the environment it was ment for.
love the Narcos intro. definitely a vibe
I REALLY enjoyed this video, background story, narration & of course this specific topic, kudos 👏
I’ve recently gotten obsessed with admin results. Super cool to see such a rare gun on here.
That Narcos' intro remix slapps harder than Abuela with her chancla
Mini-14's big brother😳
Mega-14
Maxi-14
Let’s see Paul Allen’s m14k
I was going to comment something like “Insert off brand version of Garand Thumb etc” but after hearing the next couple minutes of the video, whilst commenting said comment. I changed my mind, I actually enjoyed your content.
Thanks for review of Mini 14K and awesome story!
Never heard of this variant. Super cool vid! Wonder how it would compare to a SOCOM 16?
Wow!! as far as range, that thing was designed for jungle combat. I'm thinking most contact was within 100 yards.
The M14K had select fire capabilities...(the distinguishing characteristic between the M14 and M1A).
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At first glance, thought it was Italian Beretta BM59 - folding stock model.
Love the Narcos theme song. That show was absolutely brilliant. My personal favorite was Season 3.
This thing was probably designed to be more of secondary marksman's rifle for those using short range firearms like pistols, shotguns or SMGs in CQC. For a long time, nobody had the answer for this. A lot of guys relied on a .44 or .357 as a backup pocket sniper. I personally carried an M1 Carbine, Mare's Leg and shortened 8mm Mauser for this reason.
I haven’t unlocked the overkill perk yet :(
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What an awesome piece of history, so sweet to see something like this! A dream gun I didn't know I needed. if someone isn't already making clones of this they should be!
I own several M1A's I really like the scout squad version. It has a 18" barrel IIRR....and a provision for a LER scope or red dot. I had a 16" barreled M1A I think it was called a socom....It was LOUD as hell. It went down the road to another home for that reason only.
Admin's drip in this video is off-the-wall bumpin that I literally cannot handle it
Love the M-14! This would be an interesting addition if it wasn’t so rare. Are there more accurate big caliber battle rifles? Sure! But there’s something about the M-14
Production value is going through the roof good job gamer