Issues with commercial receivers are common as I said. Even so we often found minor variations in tolerances in any given number of receivers, but they almost never were found unacceptable. Those that were accepted had to be about perfect - they had all those precision gages to check every detail with. No one knows how many government M14 receivers were rejected and trashed during manufacturing.
Of course they made so many and I only had access to a few. I don’t recall ever having a serious issue working on Government receivers. A drop in the bucket compared to the Garand and M1 Carbine. M14 rifle production for the military was somewhere in the 1.5 million range. Most other companies have produced anywhere from 230 to 4,000 or so, usually on the lower side. Companies strive to produce profitable products and in the case of the M14 to a very limited market. Manufacturing a commercial receiver is mostly about making money. The problem is that the problems are common to all commercial receivers to some extent. A good deal has been said about the many problems some builders have had and the issues they encountered. I don’t wish to go into the subject of how good or bad any companies M14 receivers are.
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