James river armory M14 early with 762mm firearms receiver help, gunsmith

[393 stroker]

I have a James river armory early M14 with a 762mm firearms receiver that has problems. The firing pin slot in the receiver is to small and causes the bolt not to go back with the hammer down. There is a step in the receiver channel where the top rear of the bolt slides back and forth that caused deformation of the rear top of the bolt. The heel area of the receiver does not seem to be finished all the way. I need someone who can fix it for me. Any help will be appreciated. Thank You.

[psteinmayer]

Contact Deans. Link can be found on this forum

[M1Riflenut]

Ted Brown, look him up in the user name search and send him a message. Try Dean at DGR as well but not sure if he does receiver work on M1A's.

[PhillipM]

I'd ask over at the M14 forum. Gus Fisher and a few others are sure to know what's best. http://m14forum.com/gunsmithing/

[psteinmayer]

If Dean's doesn't do M14 stuff, then try Shuff's Parkerizing.

[ncmc47]

Doesn't it have a warranty? Seems like it should be covered under manufacturing defects. Thanks
Steve

[Ltdave]

Ted Brown is at Shooters Den in oregon...

top notch guy...

[Ted Brown]

Thanks for the good mention guys, but I have worked on some 7.62 Firearms receivers before and I don't choose to do any more. Like some Armscorp receivers, they were too far out of spec and just caused me a lot of grief. I need to add them to my disclaimer in my web site about those things I don't work on along with Entreprise Arms and Chinese guns.

Right now I only work on LRB Arms, Springfield Armory, Fulton, SEI, and Rock-Ola. I will occasionally work on Armscorp, but they require careful inspection to determine their acceptability. I also do work on government M14 rifles. This policy has saved me a ton of trouble.

[Dean-DGR]

Thank you for recommending DGR, but I have to say I agree with Ted's comments regarding not being interested in that type of work. Thanks...Dean-DGR

[cplnorton]

I would contact 7.62 firearms and ask him to warranty it. I also think he should have a warranty on it. He's a former Marine so I would hope he would make it right. Also to add a lot of the early 8.62 firearm receivers had problems. I remember seeing a lot of it on the m14forum several years back.

[usmc69]

The company James River Armory won't fix it? Make it right or replace it? Others don't seem to want to work on it. Then you have the option of buying a new receiver and replacing the one that came on the rifle. I would take out a full page ad in one of the gun magazines stating what your problem was with their product and what their help was.....alluding to what kind of a piece of crap it is. JMHO

[bd1]

I was gonna ask, have you written up your case and sent it to 7.62? I looked at their current web site and there's an e-mail address at the top and somebody using that name is still advertising M14 clone receivers. I looked also for info about the bankruptcy case status of the company or the part of the company that was claiming financial problems a while back, but no luck there. Good luck to you in getting some satisfaction, meaning a receiver that meets critical specs. A really skilled machinist with a complete shop MIGHT be able to clean up the receiver you have, but who's going to heat-treat it again and re-park it and put your rifle back together right? Diminishing returns raises its ugly head.

[leftyo]

7.62 has proven to be a crap company, and you'll have nothing but problems dealing with them. now did you buy it complete from james river? if so, contact them and have them fix it. if they built it for you, they should have found the problems during the build or testing, again contact them and see what they say.

[nf1e]

Give James River a call. They are good people and I would rely on their suggestions on how to make your rifle workable. They are making their own receivers now. I have used a bunch of JRA receivers for builds over the last 9 months and they are good to go.

Semper Fi
Art

[StockDoc]

I would have to agree, that James River should be the one to return it to for repair. I have nothing but good things to say about them. Maybe you could finagle and exchange for a Rockola Receiver. With Firearm liability being what it is.