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KnickKnack
02-12-2012, 09:27 PM
I posted this at the bottom of another thread, but I'm not sure that anyone saw it.

I have an HRA hammer that reads 5546008 HR AC left to right from the pin hole. I can't find a reference for it. Anyone know if it's M1 or M14 and the serial number range it would be correct for?
HerkFE
02-13-2012, 04:52 AM
I noticed in the other thread, that the number on theirs was HRA C5546008. Are you sure it doesn't say "HRA C" following the number?
KnickKnack
02-13-2012, 06:15 AM
My eyes aren't that bad, lol. It's spaced like I typed it, HR AC.
timshufflin
02-13-2012, 09:25 AM
I am not very observant about this stuff unless I actually care. I got nothing :(
melloman
02-13-2012, 11:26 PM
I think that it is for the M14
KnickKnack
02-14-2012, 12:30 AM
I think that it is for the M14

OK, that's what I was afraid of. Is there anyway that I can document it?
melloman
02-14-2012, 08:17 AM
HRA before the # is for a Garand. HRA or HR after the # is for a M14.
Schriv
02-14-2012, 02:22 PM
Are'nt they fully inter-changable? I've only got two HRA's, and I've never paid much attention to the hammers. I'm going to check them when I get home just for curiosity sake.
Orlando
02-14-2012, 02:53 PM
HRA before the # is for a Garand. HRA or HR after the # is for a M14.

Well I learned somethin new today
Thanks
KnickKnack
02-14-2012, 06:01 PM
HRA before the # is for a Garand. HRA or HR after the # is for a M14.

But Babcock's book shows 5546008-HR-N as correct for 5.6 to 5.7 HRA M1 rifles. Is this a mistake?
Orlando
02-14-2012, 06:16 PM
Did some digging around on the M14 Forum
Bill Ricca states that any hammer marked HR is a M14 hammer
Sounds like thats what you have, and yes they will fit on a garand
KnickKnack
02-14-2012, 11:54 PM
Did some digging around on the M14 Forum
Bill Ricca states that any hammer marked HR is a M14 hammer
Sounds like thats what you have, and yes they will fit on a garand

That does make sense, thanks. I'm guessing then that Larry's book is either wrong, or some of the hammers somehow made it into the late HRA M1's, similiar to the other discussion we had about odd parts making it into otherwise "correct" rifles.