Welcome to the CoolM14

Welcome to the CoolM14.com build page. Hopefully this will help some increased understanding of how a M14 style rifle goes together. We will not be providing build details in the form of tips, specialty tools and parrts as M-14s are a totally different animal than "adult Lego's" like AR 15s and take some skills plus a little gun smithing effort. With more requests we will consider somee tutorials on some home projects for the handy home smith can do. Nobody pays us, this is a M14 addicts site for building and shooting a variety of nice rifles. Remember you can click on all photos for a larger view.

A ROCK-OLA M-14 #1616 BUILD

The receiver for this build is a Bula Defense Systems Rock-Ola M-14 #1616, National Match stainless steel barrel, National Match reamed flash suppressor with National Match front sight, unitized gas system, tuned Winchester trigger group, H&R op rod and a Winchester bolt headspaced at 1.633 even though the photo shows a Bula ready to go. Use a Bassett mount with Leupold 3.5 -10x scope and a Atlas bipod. The USGI stock with riser drilled in and of course one of Hawks's wonderful Ambi kits.

BULA DEFENSE SYSTEMS XM21

Made a few minor changes to the build. One was painting the handguard and changed out to a new muzzle device.

THE FINISHED PROJECT READY TO GO TO WORK

ROCK-OLA ROUGE BONUS RIFLE

This is a prototype where Bula Defense Systems made the James River Armory and marked Rock-Ola by some type of agreement. The rifle is mounted in a Rouge Bullpup Chassis. The trigger is not bad for what it is, not a target trigger, but for minute of man it works fine. Even with the 16.5" barrel it is fairly accurate, not enough length to get much whip going on. Just another variation for the collection.

ROCK-OLA M14 XXX BONUS

Had a Rock-Ola with the XX serial number and a new Winchester barrel just itching to become a rifle. Wasn't so tough after all. XX marks the spot today. As new Winchester USGI barrel, Rock-Ola bolt, Winchester Op Rod, M1 rear sights with NM apature, SA trigger group, Unitized gas cylinder and a Chinese flash suppressor on the tip. Headspaced at 1.632 and ready for the range. Leaned into some peer pressure removing the Chinese flash suppressor, which was planned anyway, and replacing it with one of the LRB muzzle brakes.

ROCK-OLA #145

Made it out to do a little function firing on a couple of rifles today. This is about Rock-Ola # 145. H&R barrel from Apex. USGI fiberglas stock, Bula small parts, Wolfe adjustable gas lock front sight, SEI vortex flash hider, Bassett Weaver mount, Redfield 4x scope and I was using LC 15 M118 LR. As a test of the scope and mount, I ran 200 rnds through the rifle over the coarse of the day. Mount is perfectly stable and scope never lost it's zero even with all the pounding. Oh yea, no cheek riser.

ROCK-OLA #146 COMES TO LIFE