Here's a small pic of the LE6900 Colt Light Carbine from RSR Group distributor.


I was curious about the free floating handguard and from the pic it seems like just a simple 10" round type with a short picatinny section in front for the folding front sight which the sights are not included, some distributors will have Magpul MBUS set available.

With a MSRP of $899.00 (my local dealer price of $867.99 no sights included) 16.1", 1/8 twist, non-chrome lined, M4 profile barrel, A2 FS, aluminum free float handguard, match trigger, no dust cover, no forward assist, 6 position collapsible stock and one 30 rd PMAG, it would be a good plinker, think S&W Sport version but with FF handguard and match trigger.

If I can't afford another 6920 carbine I'll just get this instead as my range toy.


ETA: See member Jeep297 bottom of the wall pic LE6900 carbine.

Damage Industries QD M4 stock.

Interesting...

~Augee

So it looks like the competition rifles are pretty much 100% non-Colt. They even outsourced the lowers, you can tell by the engraving as opposed to roll marking. I wonder if the raw forgings are even the same...

The finish looks too pretty on these guns too.

Here is the other side of the lower. From what I was told they are licensed by Colt but made elsewhere and are made to have a tighter fit/nicer finish than the standard Colt rifles (brochure states they are "forged and precision fitted"). I can see how for some they almost look too pretty for a Colt though. No rifle leaves the shop until it shoots 1 moa or under at 100 yards and each comes with a signed target showing the group. All the ones I handled had match triggers (Geissle SSA-E on most). Barrels are button rifled, 6 groove, 1 in 8 twist,match grade, air-gaged, and use 416 stainless steel.




You can see the target they come with attached to the rifle on the left

they always been 100 percent non colt

I thought  everyone understood that

Yeah but at least they're a hell of a lot better than that umarex crap that they allow their name on

thats true


I have to say though, nothing in the CR line is of interest for me.

the Winchester model 70 takes care of all my bolt gun needs. and  Colts regular AR15s take care of all my semi auto needs and wants

I guess they would be nifty for hard core 3-gunners though

I haven't seen a close up of the lower before. I was assuming that at least the lower and upper were real Colt, but now I know they are something else. In fact they look just like MEGA lowers and uppers, which coincidentally is just up the road a hundred miles or so from where these "competition rifles" are built. As a side note, I have had a couple MEGA lower's and they use a very heavy anodizing process, which makes it very hard to punch FCG pins in to the lower. Needless to say, they are out of spec.

I guess I had hoped that these competition Colt's had a little more "Colt" in them, but they don't. They are literally put together from 3rd party parts. I'm sure they are pretty accurate, but if I were in the market for this particular type of gun, I would build it myself, using mostly real Colt parts and a custom barrel.

Frankly, I would MUCH rather pick up a CR6724 or CR6720.. or hell even a LT6720-R for that matter...

Not interested anymore. Its not really a "Light Carbine"  if they used the M4 barrel instead of a 6720 style barrel. Definitely a good value for a weekend plinker or a low cost high quality starter rifle for new AR owners.

Not for me, but the "value AR" concept seems to have paid off well for S&W, I suppose the more ARs out there regardless of brand, the stronger our position.

I think not being as flat out "ugly as sin" as the DPMS Oracle, not to mention the somewhat laughable concept of "budget DPMS" paid off for S&W.  

If it works for the company, and they can continue selling and developing what I want based on profits from products that don't interest me, I say more power to them.  I feel similarly towards much of what LaRue and MagPul put out.  Only a small fraction of what either produce is really "up my alley," but if MagPul makes enough money from atrocious MOE products to keep them afloat and keeping me in PMags, I'm all for it.  

~Augee

This SHOT Show already looks like its going to cost me lots of pennies...

I've heard many say that this was a somewhat disappointing SHOT, particularly due to the huge backlog so many companies have - but there was probably more that interested me this SHOT Show than in several years.  

~Augee

could not agree more

magpul has become a non issue for me. since I discovered the Lancer  AWM