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Posted: 7/29/2010 7:29:05 PM EDT
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I ordered some spare forward asists in '75 and got that type - first time I ever saw one.
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Posted: 7/29/2010 7:35:37 PM EDT
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Ive never seen this. How can it be bigger than the A2/ M4 plunger?
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Posted: 7/29/2010 7:48:50 PM EDT
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Fathead early A2 plunger.
Seen with or without shaved sides. The shaved sides are there so it can clear A2 lowers, I guess the first ones were used with A1 lowers. |
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Posted: 7/29/2010 7:48:55 PM EDT
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Ive never seen this. How can it be bigger than the A2/ M4 plunger? Like this: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=181271107 |
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Posted: 7/29/2010 7:51:19 PM EDT
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Ive never seen this. How can it be bigger than the A2/ M4 plunger? Like this: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=181271107 Yep. And here's one with the cut to clear an A2 lower: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=181643094. |
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Posted: 7/29/2010 8:38:50 PM EDT
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Thanks all for the response. Thought early A-2 but wasn't sure. Wrong forum, right answer.
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Posted: 7/30/2010 1:32:28 AM EDT
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The large diameter FA I've got has the relief cut.
I think I've had it on my A2 for at least 15 years, I can still remember buying it at the first Bluegrass Armory here in Louisville (when they were on Preston Street). Damn its been a loooong time. |
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Posted: 7/30/2010 7:23:40 AM EDT
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There are five versions of the forward assist:
M16A1 "teardrop" M16A1 "large round" M16A1 Elisco made "large domed round" M16A1/M16A1 "large round" with relief cut on left to clear M16A2 lower reinforcement M16A2 "small round" [ETA] Added Elisco made one |
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Posted: 7/30/2010 8:38:25 AM EDT
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I built a whole rifle around a "large head" FA button and a Gray A2 upper.
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Posted: 7/30/2010 9:05:32 AM EDT
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There are four version of the forward assist: M16A1 "teardrop" M16A1 "large round" or "fathead round" as referred to above M16A1/M16A1 "large round" with relief cut on left to clear M16A2 lower reinforcement M16A2 "small round" ...and this one: 
Elisco large head forward assist |
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Posted: 7/30/2010 9:16:35 AM EDT
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...and this one: http://www.pullig.com/pics/weapons/Elisco_forward_assist.jpg http://www.pullig.com/pics/weapons/Elisco_forward_assist2.jpg http://www.pullig.com/retroblackrifle/sitebuilder/images/Elisco_613-P_upper-600x277.jpg Elisco large head forward assist That the phillipine made one? ETA: Guess if I'd looked I'd of known, huh? |
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Posted: 7/30/2010 1:22:55 PM EDT
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So is that one known as the big dome head?
  
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Posted: 7/30/2010 7:13:19 PM EDT
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Ive never seen this. How can it be bigger than the A2/ M4 plunger? Like this: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=181271107 Ooh thats nice. Speaking of this part.. You never miss it until you need it. |
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Posted: 7/30/2010 7:15:44 PM EDT
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There are four version of the forward assist: M16A1 "teardrop" M16A1 "large round" or "fathead round" as referred to above M16A1/M16A1 "large round" with relief cut on left to clear M16A2 lower reinforcement M16A2 "small round" ...and this one: http://www.pullig.com/pics/weapons/Elisco_forward_assist.jpg http://www.pullig.com/pics/weapons/Elisco_forward_assist2.jpg http://www.pullig.com/retroblackrifle/sitebuilder/images/Elisco_613-P_upper-600x277.jpg Elisco large head forward assist That parts looks like the feet of a harris bipod. |
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Posted: 7/30/2010 10:58:29 PM EDT
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I built a whole rifle around a "large head" FA button and a Gray A2 upper.
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/A2_b.jpg Man, You've got it bad Mike. 
How about I send you a shiny black slipring, what would you build around it?
jhud, you're right, the Elisco does look like a Harris bipod foot!
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Posted: 7/31/2010 7:37:02 AM EDT
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Ive never seen this. How can it be bigger than the A2/ M4 plunger? Like this: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=181271107 Ooh thats nice. Speaking of this part.. You never miss it until you need it. Yeah, I had just bought one from this guy a couple of weeks ago. It was new. I ended up putting it on the .458 Socom so I could have the teardrop for the IDF carbine I'm about to finish. |
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