Settling some arguements.
According to some in my PD all you need is to attach a Simons tactical rifle scope to a surplus M14. I have a Sgt that is a qualified expert on the M14.
I was on the route to turn a couple DRMO M14s into 1moa sniper support rifles at the request of our SWAT team and snipers. Chatted with Chad about it and then looked into it on my own. The cheapest option to achieve what the snipers wanted was going to cost us well just shy of $4k per rifle, and it was going to require something similar to the Smith Enterprise M14SE SDM "Crazy Horse" retrofit. Basically, more than it would cost to buy literally any semi-automatic .308 AR on the market.Way more than it's worth. I explored it a few years ago for a surplus one that my agency has. Tatonka on here confirmed some of what I had found, and it would be cheaper to buy a Remington 700 to have a gun 2-4x as accurate. There was too much that would have to be dealt with at the gunsmithing level and that would have to be addressed by continual maintenance by a support system absolutely dedicated to the weapon. It's not worth the liability, the time, nor the funds, especially when there are so many better options out there now and in an era when funds are not plentiful in the LE circles.
I was on the route to turn a couple DRMO M14s into 1moa sniper support rifles at the request of our SWAT team and snipers. Chatted with Chad about it and then looked into it on my own. The cheapest option to achieve what the snipers wanted was going to cost us well just shy of $4k per rifle, and it was going to require something similar to the Smith Enterprise M14SE SDM "Crazy Horse" retrofit. Basically, more than it would cost to buy literally any semi-automatic .308 AR on the market.
I qualified Expert in Basic in 1969 with a M-14 just before they started Basic with M-16s Expert equaled being OK anyone that didn't get Expert really sucked.According to some in my PD all you need is to attach a Simons tactical rifle scope to a surplus M14. I have a Sgt that is a qualified expert on the M14.