Finally got around to cloning one of the rifles I carried back in the day.  A while back I found some of my old Rifle Data books from the qual ranges.  Oldest one I could locate was from '96 when I was with 1/2.  Grabbed a late 80 Colt upper/barrel and found as many correct parts as I could including grey rough texture buttstock and glossy HGs.  Even got a 80% and had it engraved with my issue ser# 6007xxx (early USMC rifle) sent it off to hkiller to get anodized and then finished it off once it got back.



















Oh and the funny thing is I might have had this rifle back in '91-'94...  at the time at Lejeune there were IIRC 9 Infantry Bns but only 8 sets of weapons as one Bn was always on rotation to Okinawa.  As the units rotated they just "swapped" gear....


 

Outstanding effort, well done.  Your rifle looks great!

Thanks decided to use it in a 2 gun match today with my 1911 MEU SOC...
Two classic guns got me second place...


Got beat beat by a G19 and 18" SPR both race guns and the rifle had a Hubble telescope on it.


A2 irons FTMFW!!

Nice.

Awesome rifle. I'm hoping to have my A2 finished by the weekend, pretty excited.

Well done OP  You've raised the bar just a bit higher for the all the cloners out there.

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Well done, a great result with good honest basic weapons. I detest race guns and Hubble telescoped weaponry.

Good job! I have almost got all the parts together to build an FN A2 clone. Just waiting on the charging handle.

Nice man i love the run and gun type shoots with mil spec guns!

Nice. Enjoy that rifle.

The more and more I shoot a 20" AR with standard irons, the more I like it!   I have an RRA NM that is more of an A4 (detach carry handle) but starting to get the bug to build an A2 clone...