Springfield M1A 6.5 Creedmoor

hickok 45 here with a loaded m1a loaded has two meanings there there's ammo in the magazine it's one of the loaded versions with several features we'll talk about has national match sites on it and target sites really they're hard to to pick up a target really now we'll talk about that but that's why i have some of these painted orange just couldn't see them so i'll uh i'll clue you in on all that in a minute but first i thought we'd try start out by trying to hit the old gong over there at 230 yards since we have 6.5 creedmoor is that okay with you all hopefully i won't have to empty the magazine to get around on it okay now y'all listen carefully because i want to i want to hit it at least once or twice and i want to be able to hear it all right so no talking while i'm shooting please all right takes more concentration than i can muster up i got him all right let's try to get him one more time i see them moving around a little bit that one had a good ring to it yeah this is the m1a uh it's a it's got a lot of national match pieces on this rear sight the front sight you know she's got a muzzle brake and it has a mid-weight barrels it's called stainless and uh and mainly you know it's in 6.5 creedmoor that's a little different isn't it so we got this from budsgunshop.com and we appreciate them helping us out by letting us borrow it let's go down here and look at it got all choked up i'll let you take a look at it while i get a drink of water here i've got a bottle of water just have it half handy yeah i got all choked up just thinking about you all ah that's better oh yes unedited videos live never know what's gonna happen do you okay i might start crying at a video sometime you know i really might just thinking about some fine rifle or head but you know this is one of the loaded versions because it's got some extras on it and uh i ever since i saw these chambered in 6.5 creedmoors and i mean a couple years ago i guess at a shot show or nra meeting exhibit i thought yeah that'd be kind of interesting to try you know many of us have shot these owned them for years but always 308 762 right so this one is in 6.5 creedmoor there's one of the bullets i've got a 308 here again just a reminder the difference not a lot of difference but enough to make a difference and to a lot of people it was a real innovation you know you've got a longer thinner bullet and you get better ballistic coefficient and flat maybe a little flatter trajectory especially at longer ranges a little added velocity a little less recoil so it has some advantages for a lot of people and it's become i think a pretty popular cartridge in chambering for a long range you know shooting uh competition so anyway i thought we would try it a little bit here and why don't i see i've got a few more rounds in this magazine it's just a 10 round mag so let's try some of these other orange targets i had to shoot and i'll talk about that site why we got so many pumpkins over there today which we never have oh boy yeah i got a pumpkin there it's loud and muzzle break let me get that little one go to the left yeah now renting so yeah with the muzzle brake get a more blast uh yeah i've got my lrb out here i'll kind of show you uh what the deal is on the sites right away if you can tell the difference just eyeballing it the the rear sight the left one firearm of course is the m1a springfield the right one is the lrb it the lrb has more of uh a combat sight you know as far as the rear the peep it's just a little bit bigger opening and so other than that they're about the same it doesn't take much difference before it's pretty tough to uh you know the sea as well i love a peep site a ghost string site and we call them peep sites i'm not sure what the definition is when a ghost ring becomes a peep site at some point as it closes down the smaller opening i guess it becomes a peep site some of you probably know the exact diameter for when you got to stop calling it a ghost ring got to start calling it a peep site many of us use that interchangeably i'm sure so you know since this is a national match site front and rear uh you know is for precision more precision shooting not for combat so i wouldn't be able to take this into combat as uh as well uh so it really is tough it's not just me with old eyes or anything uh it's uh you know john picks up has the same problems we uh we had that we were gonna do a video the other night it was about this time of the evening and i told john look you know i cannot i can see the front sight because i was painting it i've got some tape on it right now but i could not see the red plates and even now as i try to yeah there's one red plate over there on the right i didn't paint orange and uh i can see the front sight that i really cannot pick up the plate i just can't do it and if i open both eyes with me i'm left eye dominant it just it's weird so i have trouble doing that uh so you know i thought we'll work it out and so i put the tape on the front side that helped since the other night and i found some orange fluorescent paint and white paint and i uh doctored those things up i said i want to shoot this thing and do a video with it and i want to be able to see the targets so and again it's mainly for targets so it's not a uh it was not a major crime to paint the targets whatever color you know we want to be able to see them and that sort of thing because you're not trying to simulate realistic hunting or combat or anything okay it's a target gun with that sight on as far as i'm concerned so that's what you get now this one oh my gosh you'd pick it up and you know you just yeah i can see that red target with any trouble i can pick it up boom i do need a little paint on my front sight maybe but i can see it just fine that's the difference okay john's a m1a same way so you get a national match it's something to think about if you're going to buy one of these or you know any springfield and if they advertise a national you know match rear sight you make sure you want one okay make sure you want that site you might not i'm sure it can be changed out without too much trouble but just a little word to the wise there no charge for that information okay and you got i told you stainless steel barrel mid-weight barrel uh yeah national match front sight uh other than that it's pretty much your your standard uh you know m1a that springfield's famous for making they're fun to shoot and again got it from buds appreciate their help and the sonoran desert institute sdi.edu we really appreciate the help they give us distance learning go learn about gunsmithing from a distance or some other courses you might find interesting and have some fun really and we're firing federal ammo as you probably can tell there and this is a 140 grain yeah 140 grain ammo this is some of their uh let's see oh my god i got two different types here yeah the fusion that's some american eagle that i haven't fired uh today yet but i have some of that if we need it okay and i've got the magazine that came with it 10 round mag that's what comes with the firearm and i ran and grabbed i've talked about this on a sunday shoot around yeah and uh i had it out in the sunday shoot around recently and uh just really to shoot it for i think the first time and try out a regular m14 you know m1a magazine 308 and as far as i know and i haven't even seen anything on this but it seems to use any of the standard m1a mags m14 magazines okay because the cartridge is essentially the same case right same case just necked down a little more so you know that's part of the you know beauty of the m1a you can just your magazines you already have will work okay so don't let me put that in that 308 or 762 round in this gun okay so let's add some others there still a link okay from my machine gun i keep in the bedroom right m60 so this works oh and guess what it's loaded it's got some ammo in it that's pretty nice so we'll probably shoot another time or two now these retail for around 2000 18 19 2000 depending where you buy it so they're not cheap and uh you know they never have been and of course this one with some extra features on it it's you know it's even a little more okay i don't know that that's because it's chambered necessarily so much in 6.5 you know creedmoor as it is you know the national match site and different things muzzle break and and all that but you know an m1a generally you're i don't know i don't even get any of them under what 1600 these days or 17 something like that so they're not an inexpensive rifle but they're really nice if you're new to firearms which a lot of you are probably this is kind of uh oh the springfield m1a is the most popular version of the m14 used by the military okay it's a semi-automatic form of the m14 by and large okay very very very similar okay and very very popular and has been for a long time okay and the m14 is still in use has been used for many many decades still in use by our military various branches so let's shoot a little more again this this creedmoor uh i think it hasn't turned out to be a flash in the pan uh people seem to like it i think it's fairly widely used if you use it you shoot it a lot you know share we've done a couple of videos on the cartridge and talk more about the cartridge you know i'm not an expert i don't do long range shooting i don't even do a bench rest shooting or anything like that i just know the the reason for it is the same as the swedish or the yeah the the swede round 6.5 but 55. you got a long bullet you get a really good uh ballistic coefficient very well stabilized bullet and still have plenty of weight and they're still good for hunting they know they're not as big a diameter you know people have been hunting with that swede cartridge moose and everything else forever and so it's it's a good round good round now i don't know that it's going to replace the 308 the 762 but it's a popular ramp all right now we got a real magazine in it we've got the 20 round mag let's take a couple of shots okay no not a lot new about the old springfield m1a uh it's just that it's cool this one's chambered and in that new round and it works you know works fine it's a good round and a good gun and you know this one having maybe a slightly heavier barrel stainless steel barrel muzzle brake uh good sights might really appeal to you if i were buying this gun myself though i would rather not have the national match site depending on what i'm going to do with it maybe you are going to just bench rest it you're going to shoot at long range don't know if you're going to get you a target you can see with most paper targets you wouldn't have a problem i guess or something like that ah it tells you it's not a little wimpy around doesn't it or if you're gonna bowl with it that might work or if you're gonna hit two liters and try to get a bowling pin on the same shot didn't work i thought maybe i could take him off wow takes care of those things doesn't it whoops loud oh window pot smoking now we have no paper smoking yet it's a little bitty hole i mean it's not itty bitty but it's not as big as a 308 wow nothing like a muzzle break to kind of clear out your head no doubt about it i'm going to go over there and pick on that square target um even though they're painted like that you tend to lose it a little bit uh definitely not the best combat site out there try that one in the middle there we go last round yeah you have to hit the focus in order to pick it up uh otherwise with m1a with that one i could just go boom boom boom you're gonna go across a row there and pick all of them off uh hyperspeed right so we'll shoot a few more rounds but yeah some of you might not have known this was uh available this animal was even out there that you could get the m1a m14 uh simion mac version you know in 6.5 creedmoor and many of you wouldn't care maybe okay oh we splashed our gun we splashed the table well it's just water won't hurt anything uh i guess there is that issue that okay you're you've picked out you won a 6.5 creedmoor because you're going to do some long-range shooting you're going to try to pick off a fly at 500 yards or whatever and you're going to take advantage of the uh the flat trajectory you know and all the advantages of this round out the long range you may not want a semi-automatic rifle okay you might rather have a bolt gun if that's what you're going for extreme accuracy at long range you know it's just the thought but then again maybe you do have that and you're doing that and you like the m1a damn i just uh get me one of these in the same chambering i don't know i don't know i don't know if i have a use for it or not i've been kind of interested in this cartridge i don't own anything chambered in it but it is an interesting one and i don't know that it really that you i don't know what do you all think do you gain anything if you could just you know wave a magic wand and have your particular m1a or m14 semi-automatic or whatever you have uh chambered in this instead of 308 would you know would that be interesting to you i don't know you might make the argument that ammo is uh probably going to be more expensive yeah whereas i mean 308 i don't know if there's any surplus much left out there but we're 308 762 by uh the ammo is going to be a little less okay because it's widely widely used i would say still although this is pretty popular and at least under normal circumstances you go into a gun shop and look at the ammo shelf of course today because we do this it might be bare but uh you know you're gonna find a lot of selections it's probably gonna be higher than 308 my guess i could be wrong though you never know i was wrong once about something forgot what it was and uh so i don't know just my uh one thing might appeal to you is lower recoil yeah uh again you got the muzzle brake on this kind of it it's loud i'm not a fan of those i know they do mitigate the felt recoil muzzle rise and all that uh but you know to me usually not worth it sometimes they are they're kind of nice i got my gun all wet over there look at that so we'll shoot him a little bit more here anything about it that i haven't told you that is really important to you okay like i say you got basically i don't get any change in the bolt or anything i don't know if in the mainspring i don't think they've changed the gas system or anything for the creedmoor versus a 762 maybe if you know let me know but yeah pretty much the same case so you know it works out pretty well all right got the old m1a mag or m14 magazine this is an old surplus i think i've had that in a long time all right i gotta remember to get those ears in tight take a few more shots again i put tape somebody one of you all recommended that you know because occasionally we'll have a firearm like this that we have borrowed from buds it's going to go back to them for their e-gunner and one of you all are going to end up with it so you know i don't want to get out the spray paint and spray paint at the site and spray paint the stock and carve on or anything uh and one of you all recommended i think is putting chalk on that or a little piece of tape if i need to get better visibility and that's kind of what i did on this one so anyway i know what will happen though you'll get mad at me for taking it off whoever ends up with it but it is one thing you can do i would just paint it if it were mine all right get those ears in tight all right let's take a couple more shots there's a little bit of cinder down there it was and there's a paint can it's empty a two liter it's not empty wow thing really blows stuff up let's try a bowling pin yeah okay back over there looks pretty good i'm gonna travel on that red plate oh man i can't see it i got one on a miracle feels good let's just go ahead and i think the trash can is not quite ventilated well enough and uh sorry federal but the viewers want to see this thing shoot fast it's not a machine gun okay i was almost empty yeah you have less less recoil so it is softer to shoot that's one of the advantages of it okay uh yeah it's a it's a sweet you know shooting round no doubt about that especially i have a semi-automatic and uh you know nice round i i i think the verdict is is pretty much in on the 6.5 creedmoor you might not need it it may not be necessary for what you do or anybody but it does have some advantages uh in some ways also maybe some disadvantages i don't know i was look i'm not a nerd about the uh the the statistics of the ballistics uh to to a large extent in detail but i was looking at something uh recently was showing the 100 yards 200 400 500 600 the trajectory on 308 versus this round and at those different how compared and you know the numbers were uh there was an advantage with the creedmoor at every point but you know out there it seemed like if i recall 400 even 500 uh you know the trajectory you have like a i don't know minus half an inch versus a no drop and uh maybe an inch difference at 500 yards or something you know don't quote me but the the difference did not seem dramatic to me now if you're a long-range accuracy shooter uh it might be big you know everything's exaggerated the further out you you go but i was actually expecting a more dramatic difference as i was looking across that chart like maybe you know really dramatic difference but it really wasn't you know crazy uh in terms of the difference you know but uh but anyway it's a nice round and uh these are one of my favorite firearms you may not like them at all some people really don't uh but uh i tell you excuse me people who have used these that were in the military the m1a m14 i hear from them a lot you know online and they 98 is just as positive so you might hate them and have lots of reasons to hate these rifles but uh well i'll tell you vets uh it's hard to find a vet i'm sure we can find them and i've heard from a few that didn't like them but boy it seems like really 95 98 of the vets that the least comment on on the various videos with these rifles any kind of m14 the lrb there the m1as they just they speak so fondly of them and how they remember them in vietnam or training or whatever using them so so i don't know i like them okay if you don't guess what that's perfectly legal it's perfectly fine for you not to like them but they're pretty cool and i'll shut up and let you all go uh yeah i there's some things i know that i didn't tell you about it but that's okay i don't want you to know everything about it i want you to look it up right so pretty neat rifle and a lot of fun to shoot appreciate you all coming out appreciate you supporting the people that support us and coming back to see what we're up to so take care and uh life is good oh yeah that's better this is a great gun for defense oh hey didn't see you guys there uh while i've got you here i want to remind you of our 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Length: 25min 54sec (1554 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2020