Cleaning Your Sage EBR?
Has anyone ever wondered what is the best method to clean your Sage EBR?
Well I got a few answers and tid bits for you. Other Sage EBRrish may have other ways of cleaning their rifles but this is what I do after a day at the range and would like to share it here for all you. First if all, I wipe down the stock with those silicon base grey or yellow wipes that unfolds as big as a square red shop rag that you can get from your favorite gun shop. When done wiping, I also use a product called "Barricade" which is a rust protector, displaces moisture and lubricates all at the same time. I spray in small portions on an old cotton rag or t-shirt and wipe down all metal parts that I can get too. When I am done cleaning, I then store it in one of those long silicon based Gun Socks and then back into my gun/rifle safe.
Here are the tid bits that will help us understand more of the best way to clean your Sage EBR and why it is not best not to remove your Sage EBR barrel action from your aluminum chassis.
Quoted by an Gunsmith/Armorer for the TACOM-RI by EBRBuilder:
" So who cleans them...They are made to shoot, not look pretty. We tell the troops to just wipe down the outside of the stock, clean and lube the trigger assembly and clean the gas system. They are not authorized to remove the barreled action from the stock. If you want consistency, put it together and leave it that way. Most of the GI actions we install in Sage stocks are driven in with a large mallet. The more times you do this, the more you wear the dovetails in the stock."
In other words, these Sage EBR's chassis replaces the need of bedding and not recommended to remove its receiver/action from from the aluminum stock. Unless you are going to switch it to another Sage EBR stock and or make a major part replacement that will require you to remove your action from the chassis. Remember now......... the Sage EBR chassis is precision machined from a solid billet of high strength aircraft grade aluminum and has the rigidity of the chassis to increases accuracy and reliability.
Having a special design Operating Guide Block.....it is 1)Precision machined from ordnance grade steel and designed to interface in close tolerance with the aluminum stock chassis. 2)Additional stock bedding is eliminated by the op-rod block being joined to the chassis by three 1/4" screws and the standard trigger mechanism. 3)Increases reliability and tighter groups.
Soon after your Sage EBR rifle is broken in, the results will be most satisfying to its shooter or owner. Ever since I have my Sage EBR's built, I have never taken out the barrel action out for a complete cleaning and done what is recommended by EBRBuilder at TACOM. Shooting my Sage EBR's at the range has proven its worth by spending every penny, nickle, dime, quarter, and dollar to get that build/clone of my choice. Proof is in the pudding I say when targets are shown and range reports are made by me and many other Sage EBR enthusiasts who submits them here for all of to read and learn from.
The Accuracy
From M14 Rifle History and Development Fifth Edition by Lee Emerson copyright 2011,
"M14 EBR-RI - In 2008, the U. S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) began a project to modernize the M14 in support of U. S. Army units in Iraq. This work was performed by the Weapons Product Support Integration Directorate of the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command at Rock Island, IL. The M14 EBR-RI Program Manager was Doug Carlstrom from inception through at least June 2010. The first 400 M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle - Rock Island (M14 EBR-RI) rifles had been completed by June 2008. Another 2,200 units had been completed by March 2009. On May 05, 2010, TACOM completed its five thousandth M14 EBR-RI rifle. Another thirty units were completed that month to fulfill all requests submitted by combat unit commanders to date. The conversion of a M14 to a M14 EBR-RI included replacing the M14 stock with a Sage International late second generation M14 EBR stock, reaming the flash suppressor, replacing the cartridge clip guide with a detachable cantilevered sight base (Sage part number M14DCSB, shimming the gas cylinder, and adding a vertical grip (Sage part number 4249), a Harris bipod and a Leupold & Stevens, Inc. variable 3.5-10X day scope with medium height rings. The M14 EBR-RI rifle was shipped to the combat unit with six magazines, a vertical fore grip, a sling, an Otis Products, Inc. cleaning kit, a combination tool and operator manual. By mid-2009, some minor changes were made on new rifles: 1) a crush washer replaced the stainless steel shims 2) a redesigned operating rod guide to make use of the hand guard screws and 3) an improved detachable cantilevered sight base. The acceptance criteria was a maximum of 1.5 MOA with the result averaging 0.89 MOA for the first 5,000 built. The five TACOM rifle builders observed that TRW and Winchester barreled actions typically delivered the best accuracy. Only one rifle in the first 5,000 units was rejected for not meeting the accuracy requirement."
Well I got a few answers and tid bits for you. Other Sage EBRrish may have other ways of cleaning their rifles but this is what I do after a day at the range and would like to share it here for all you. First if all, I wipe down the stock with those silicon base grey or yellow wipes that unfolds as big as a square red shop rag that you can get from your favorite gun shop. When done wiping, I also use a product called "Barricade" which is a rust protector, displaces moisture and lubricates all at the same time. I spray in small portions on an old cotton rag or t-shirt and wipe down all metal parts that I can get too. When I am done cleaning, I then store it in one of those long silicon based Gun Socks and then back into my gun/rifle safe.
Here are the tid bits that will help us understand more of the best way to clean your Sage EBR and why it is not best not to remove your Sage EBR barrel action from your aluminum chassis.
Quoted by an Gunsmith/Armorer for the TACOM-RI by EBRBuilder:
" So who cleans them...They are made to shoot, not look pretty. We tell the troops to just wipe down the outside of the stock, clean and lube the trigger assembly and clean the gas system. They are not authorized to remove the barreled action from the stock. If you want consistency, put it together and leave it that way. Most of the GI actions we install in Sage stocks are driven in with a large mallet. The more times you do this, the more you wear the dovetails in the stock."
In other words, these Sage EBR's chassis replaces the need of bedding and not recommended to remove its receiver/action from from the aluminum stock. Unless you are going to switch it to another Sage EBR stock and or make a major part replacement that will require you to remove your action from the chassis. Remember now......... the Sage EBR chassis is precision machined from a solid billet of high strength aircraft grade aluminum and has the rigidity of the chassis to increases accuracy and reliability.
Having a special design Operating Guide Block.....it is 1)Precision machined from ordnance grade steel and designed to interface in close tolerance with the aluminum stock chassis. 2)Additional stock bedding is eliminated by the op-rod block being joined to the chassis by three 1/4" screws and the standard trigger mechanism. 3)Increases reliability and tighter groups.
Soon after your Sage EBR rifle is broken in, the results will be most satisfying to its shooter or owner. Ever since I have my Sage EBR's built, I have never taken out the barrel action out for a complete cleaning and done what is recommended by EBRBuilder at TACOM. Shooting my Sage EBR's at the range has proven its worth by spending every penny, nickle, dime, quarter, and dollar to get that build/clone of my choice. Proof is in the pudding I say when targets are shown and range reports are made by me and many other Sage EBR enthusiasts who submits them here for all of to read and learn from.
The Accuracy
From M14 Rifle History and Development Fifth Edition by Lee Emerson copyright 2011,
"M14 EBR-RI - In 2008, the U. S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) began a project to modernize the M14 in support of U. S. Army units in Iraq. This work was performed by the Weapons Product Support Integration Directorate of the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command at Rock Island, IL. The M14 EBR-RI Program Manager was Doug Carlstrom from inception through at least June 2010. The first 400 M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle - Rock Island (M14 EBR-RI) rifles had been completed by June 2008. Another 2,200 units had been completed by March 2009. On May 05, 2010, TACOM completed its five thousandth M14 EBR-RI rifle. Another thirty units were completed that month to fulfill all requests submitted by combat unit commanders to date. The conversion of a M14 to a M14 EBR-RI included replacing the M14 stock with a Sage International late second generation M14 EBR stock, reaming the flash suppressor, replacing the cartridge clip guide with a detachable cantilevered sight base (Sage part number M14DCSB, shimming the gas cylinder, and adding a vertical grip (Sage part number 4249), a Harris bipod and a Leupold & Stevens, Inc. variable 3.5-10X day scope with medium height rings. The M14 EBR-RI rifle was shipped to the combat unit with six magazines, a vertical fore grip, a sling, an Otis Products, Inc. cleaning kit, a combination tool and operator manual. By mid-2009, some minor changes were made on new rifles: 1) a crush washer replaced the stainless steel shims 2) a redesigned operating rod guide to make use of the hand guard screws and 3) an improved detachable cantilevered sight base. The acceptance criteria was a maximum of 1.5 MOA with the result averaging 0.89 MOA for the first 5,000 built. The five TACOM rifle builders observed that TRW and Winchester barreled actions typically delivered the best accuracy. Only one rifle in the first 5,000 units was rejected for not meeting the accuracy requirement."
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