SP901 / LE901-16S .308 Rifle: Picture Thread, New T&E 901 M.A.R.C. Modular rail page 78 (Page 39 of 51)
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Anybody have a 901 and the DPMS GII? Curios if there's a chance the upper might be compatible with the 901 lower, with an adapter. It would be nice to have some options as far as barrels, forends, etc. Particularly if one were to be able to Form 1 SBR one.
Asked this in the GII thread too. |
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Originally Posted By 1811GNR:
Anybody have a 901 and the DPMS GII? Curios if there's a chance the upper might be compatible with the 901 lower, with an adapter. It would be nice to have some options as far as barrels, forends, etc. Particularly if one were to be able to Form 1 SBR one. Asked this in the GII thread too. I don't own either but I will say no, it won't work. 2 totally different proprietary systems. Not a engineers dream. Different people different times different budget different customers. We can dream but that is far fetched. |
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Originally Posted By GGGBeo50:
I don't own either but I will say no, it won't work. 2 totally different proprietary systems. Not a engineers dream. Different people different times different budget different customers. We can dream but that is far fetched. Originally Posted By GGGBeo50:
Originally Posted By 1811GNR:
Anybody have a 901 and the DPMS GII? Curios if there's a chance the upper might be compatible with the 901 lower, with an adapter. It would be nice to have some options as far as barrels, forends, etc. Particularly if one were to be able to Form 1 SBR one. Asked this in the GII thread too. I don't own either but I will say no, it won't work. 2 totally different proprietary systems. Not a engineers dream. Different people different times different budget different customers. We can dream but that is far fetched. It probably won't work, but it might. Mounting an non-Colt .308 upper, you'd be indexing off the magazine well. Your forward takedown pin adapter can shift the upper in any direction, but everything will index off the magazine. If your rear takedown pin doesn't line up, you could use a smaller pin and offset bushings if the holes overlap. If the radius of the upper is cut short, then you have a gap - no problem. If it's too long, you'll have to cut the upper or lower. The hammer strike location has a little wiggle room but not much. I think if you have a DPMS G2 upper, you can throw a magazine into the Colt, and drop on the upper. See if the rear radius is compatible w/o cutting. See if the rear lug pin holes overlap. Then take primed unloaded brass & see if you get primer strikes. Then see if it'll feed. IF all that lines up, then you could see about cutting an adapter. |
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Well my firing pin broke :( I only have about 500 or so rounds through the rifle. As far as I can tell it bent, but it's currently stuck in my bolt so I can't get a good look at it. I read earlier on this forum that an armalite firing pin had the same dimensions other than the taper at the end. Has anyone done any testing with the armalite pin in the 901? If so, can I swap the spring off the colt pin onto an armalite one? Any feed back is appreciated!
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Originally Posted By epicrad:
Well my firing pin broke :( I only have about 500 or so rounds through the rifle. As far as I can tell it bent, but it's currently stuck in my bolt so I can't get a good look at it. I read earlier on this forum that an armalite firing pin had the same dimensions other than the taper at the end. Has anyone done any testing with the armalite pin in the 901? If so, can I swap the spring off the colt pin onto an armalite one? Any feed back is appreciated! thanks Call Colt, have them fix it and send a spare as well |
For anyone that is still looking to pick up the conversion block, Clyde Armory dropped the price by $20. Their shipping is still  but the block doesn't seem to be available anywhere else except Colt.
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Two questions :
1) parts - want a full BCG and the usual sets of springs - I've seen mentioned that its "different" - how different from other 308 BCG's - enough to warrant trying to find a colt one? will they sell it to me and where? 2) I'm going to be putting a Geissele trigger in it - is the old trigger standard AR mil spec - i.e. will it work in other AR's or is it specific to the LE901 I put a box of cheap PMC 308's through it yesterday and really like the balance and handling. Now it just needs an optic.. |
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Originally Posted By Mattsguns:
Two questions : 1) parts - want a full BCG and the usual sets of springs - I've seen mentioned that its "different" - how different from other 308 BCG's - enough to warrant trying to find a colt one? will they sell it to me and where? 2) I'm going to be putting a Geissele trigger in it - is the old trigger standard AR mil spec - i.e. will it work in other AR's or is it specific to the LE901 I put a box of cheap PMC 308's through it yesterday and really like the balance and handling. Now it just needs an optic.. The Bolt Carrier is non-interchangeable with other systems. The FCG is milspec except for the longer pins. Use the trigger and hammer pin that comes with the 901 in your Geissele trigger. I am running a SSA in mine. |
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Originally Posted By Postal0311:
The Bolt Carrier is non-interchangeable with other systems. The FCG is milspec except for the longer pins. Use the trigger and hammer pin that comes with the 901 in your Geissele trigger. I am running a SSA in mine. Originally Posted By Postal0311:
Originally Posted By Mattsguns:
Two questions : 1) parts - want a full BCG and the usual sets of springs - I've seen mentioned that its "different" - how different from other 308 BCG's - enough to warrant trying to find a colt one? will they sell it to me and where? 2) I'm going to be putting a Geissele trigger in it - is the old trigger standard AR mil spec - i.e. will it work in other AR's or is it specific to the LE901 I put a box of cheap PMC 308's through it yesterday and really like the balance and handling. Now it just needs an optic.. The Bolt Carrier is non-interchangeable with other systems. The FCG is milspec except for the longer pins. Use the trigger and hammer pin that comes with the 901 in your Geissele trigger. I am running a SSA in mine. Thanks. What I feared :) Love the platform though. Guess I'll call Colt. Rather have a spare if its not an arm and a leg... I'll post what they quote me. And the FCG in it plus the Geissele pins will go in the "spare AR parts" section. Thanks for both points. |
| Geisselle does offfer pins for the 901. |
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Originally Posted By englishkanigit:
Is anybody running one of these suppressed? I've already got a Surefire SOCOM762-MINI and I would love to add one of these guns to my weapons locker as a 'heavy carbine' of sorts. Ek Scroll back about 5-6 pages of this thread. There are a couple of guys running the 901 suppressed. One with pretty good results, and one not so much. I believe his screen name is 'Overgassed'. |
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I picked up my 901 last night, after Adco made it NJ compliant.
For the time being, it's wearing a TA01NSN ACOG until I decide on an optic. Sorry about the iPotato pics.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qy06aohyb4uyr1/Photo%20Jul%2012%2C%207%2013%2040.jpg |
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Originally Posted By jkirkon:
I picked up my 901 last night, after Adco made it NJ compliant. For the time being, it's wearing a TA01NSN ACOG until I decide on an optic. Sorry about the iPotato pics.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qy06aohyb4uyr1/Photo%20Jul%2012%2C%207%2013%2040.jpg What hoops do y'all have to jump through for NJ infringements? |
Watch this space. In the meantime - be evil.
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Originally Posted By englishkanigit:
Thanks, I could've swore I'd seen that discussion somewhere but couldn't remember it's exact location. Ek Use a small suppressor so you don't overgas your gun. It won't be as effective, but you won't have all the problems that I had with the Thunderbeast suppressor. |
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| I got my 901 back after round two back to Colt. This time they put a new BCG in the rifle. The new bolt has a three piece gas ring instead of the one piece that was on the old one. Other than that (and being all new and pretty) I can't really tell what, if any, other differences there are. |
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Originally Posted By playinARound:
So now that the 901 has been out for a while, the upper went through the redesign, and such. Any lingering issues? Reliability? Accuracy? I shouldered one the other day and really liked it. Mine's #107 and it's been completely reliable. |
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Originally Posted By robertl:
Mine's #107 and it's been completely reliable. Originally Posted By robertl:
Originally Posted By playinARound:
So now that the 901 has been out for a while, the upper went through the redesign, and such. Any lingering issues? Reliability? Accuracy? I shouldered one the other day and really liked it. Mine's #107 and it's been completely reliable. Same with mine, but it does not seem to like CBC ammo that much. I get a few failure to feed. It seems the bolt is not going back all the way in order to retrieve the next cartridge. I have only tried with two mags, so it may also be a mag thing and not the gun's fault. Regardless, this only happened a few times and only with CBC ammo. I'd say the gun is very reliable. |
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Originally Posted By playinARound:
How does the 901 do for accuracy from the bench? its a shame so many people dont bother to read entire thread and miss out on all the great info they otherwise have easy access to Colt 901 accuracy test and 1,200yard shooting 
Colt is sending me a T&E writers gun of the new modular rail 901 this week coming up. so you can expect a full test of it the same as the other one to be read over on looserounds.com. I may add a few pictures here as well |
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Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
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Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
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Just spotted this:
901 5.56 conversion kit is now $199.99 on Colt website. Link |
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first thoughts and some more and better pictures
http://looserounds.com/2014/11/07/first-imppressions-colt-901-m-a-r-c-modular-rail-carbine/ |
shikata ga nai
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
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Originally Posted By Shawnmt6601:
first thoughts and some more and better pictures http://looserounds.com/2014/11/07/first-imppressions-colt-901-m-a-r-c-modular-rail-carbine/ Awesome. I want one. I will definitely be following your review. |
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Originally Posted By Bob_L:
I've resisted the LE901 because of the weight and because I don't like quad rails. After looking at those pics NOW i'm interested! -bob I love quad rails myself but I got to say. this thing has to be handled to be believed. Its hard to explain ,but the feel, balance and handling of this new one is superb. and it just flat looks damned good |
shikata ga nai
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
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Originally Posted By E4W:
Any chance you could tale some close up pics of the forend? I am having trouble see much detail in those pics - they seem a little dark or I am going blind!  did you see the post above saying more and better picture with the link ? |
shikata ga nai
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
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Originally Posted By Shawnmt6601:
did you see the post above saying more and better picture with the link ? Originally Posted By Shawnmt6601:
Originally Posted By E4W:
Any chance you could tale some close up pics of the forend? I am having trouble see much detail in those pics - they seem a little dark or I am going blind! did you see the post above saying more and better picture with the link ? Yes I saw those too. If you can see robertl's picture at the top of this page you can see how a little illumination makes it much easier to see details. But no big deal - and thanks for posting those pictures. |
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Originally Posted By E4W:
Yes I saw those too. If you can see robertl's picture at the top of this page you can see how a little illumination makes it much easier to see details. But no big deal - and thanks for posting those pictures. Originally Posted By E4W:
Originally Posted By Shawnmt6601:
Originally Posted By E4W:
Any chance you could tale some close up pics of the forend? I am having trouble see much detail in those pics - they seem a little dark or I am going blind! did you see the post above saying more and better picture with the link ? Yes I saw those too. If you can see robertl's picture at the top of this page you can see how a little illumination makes it much easier to see details. But no big deal - and thanks for posting those pictures. so does clicking the pictures to make them enlarge |
shikata ga nai
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
don't know for sure. but I may very well be the first person to take a head of big game with the 901 MARC
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shikata ga nai
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com
Armalite of today is not the original. It's eagle arms and trying to fool you
Colt. over 50 years of combat, the real thing
www.looserounds.com