[ARCHIVED THREAD] - funny looking AR

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:16:32 AM EDT

was this how they made accurate AR's back in the day?

www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?item=52419268

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:17:43 AM EDT

[#1]

That is wierd looking. Kinda ugly actually.

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:19:01 AM EDT

[#2]

Wow. Looks like a very early attempt at making a match rifle out of an AR.

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:20:19 AM EDT

[#3]

So how accurate is "very, very, very accurate" ?

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:20:49 AM EDT

[#4]

It would look great with this sidearm:

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:22:16 AM EDT

[#5]

Opening bid: $1700.

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:22:59 AM EDT

[#6]

That looks like someone's half assed attempt at a highpower match rifle. That is a modified A1 upper with a cheesey rear sight but they still used a post for the front sight.

It ain't worth half what he's asking.

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:24:21 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
So how accurate is "very, very, very accurate" ?

way more accurate than a very , very Accurate rifle, not as accurate as a very, very , very , very accurate rifle.

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:25:43 AM EDT

[#8]

What a piece of crap. Who would pay $1700.00 for that?

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:26:50 AM EDT

[#9]

Back in the olden days that was the only way to get match sights on an AR-the A2 wasn't around................I recall seeing a few guns done up like that back in the early 1980's.

$1,700 is a pipe dream, but some poor unsuspecting soul may spend it.

Posted: 7/19/2006 7:27:24 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
That looks like someone's half assed attempt at a highpower match rifle. That is a modified A1 upper with a cheesey rear sight but they still used a post for the front sight.

It ain't worth half what he's asking.

I agree... the early attempts to accurize the AR platform didn't look much like this that I recall. The official rifles I've seen in the American Rifleman AR reprints didn't look much like this. I couldn't get a make on the float tube but it looks Bubba-ized to me.

I've never seen - with the exception of bloop tubes - the front sight moved out quite that far, especially not an A2 FSB.