M14 Maintenance (Parts 1-3)

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This subject -- maintaining an M14 -- has been done to death. Why do it again?
Because it’s important. In discussions with gunsmiths all across the country, it’s plain
that much of their returned work is the result of customer negligence and/or maintenance
mistakes. (Ask an auto mechanic the same and get the same answer.)
It’s tough to do a “definitive” article on the subject of caring for an M14 because
there’s so many different opinions as to how and what needs to be done, and when it
needs doing. So I did three articles that provide as objective and “safe” a routine as I
could assemble, and I’m sure I probably still left some things out. If we take all the
recipes and theories and roll them together, they all reach the same end: everything suggested
by everyone is done to keep this rifle shooting well for the longest time possible.
About the only real mistake you can make is doing nothing.

This subject -- maintaining an M14 -- has been done to death. Why do it again?
Because it’s important. In discussions with gunsmiths all across the country, it’s plain
that much of their returned work is the result of customer negligence and/or maintenance
mistakes. (Ask an auto mechanic the same and get the same answer.)
It’s tough to do a “definitive” article on the subject of caring for an M14 because
there’s so many different opinions as to how and what needs to be done, and when it
needs doing. So I did three articles that provide as objective and “safe” a routine as I
could assemble, and I’m sure I probably still left some things out. If we take all the
recipes and theories and roll them together, they all reach the same end: everything suggested
by everyone is done to keep this rifle shooting well for the longest time possible.
About the only real mistake you can make is doing nothing.