Posted: 6/5/2016 10:42:54 AM EDT
Just finished this one for the wife...
A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. |
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I like that. 
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I like that. .58 caliber simplicity. 
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Is it wrong that I want one of those? 
Every time I get what I think will be a beater rifle I then grow to like it and end up not treating it as such. Maybe, finally, a Hi Point will be the gun I can treat like a dirty gutter slut. |
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Aren't there 87 kiss threads already? http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee73/tangotag_bucket/C20CE5DD-598D-427B-AEE6-5AF8F04D1832_zpswlaowxru.jpg Maybe. Who cares? Not this morning. 
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Aren't there 87 kiss threads already? http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee73/tangotag_bucket/C20CE5DD-598D-427B-AEE6-5AF8F04D1832_zpswlaowxru.jpg Maybe. Who cares? Not this morning. Meh, I'll play. It's been posted in other threads before but who cares.
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Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. Not an A1 upper. 
Nice Colt 723 clone though. 
Needs a notched large button forward assist to be complete. 
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Not an A1 upper.
Nice Colt 723 clone though. http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/2/29/Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg/400px-Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg Needs a notched large button forward assist to be complete. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/gunslinger1971/IMG_2546.jpg Quoted:
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Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. Not an A1 upper.
Nice Colt 723 clone though. http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/2/29/Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg/400px-Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg Needs a notched large button forward assist to be complete. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/gunslinger1971/IMG_2546.jpg It is a good looking carbine. Growing up and attending the gun shows at the Santa Clara Co fairgrounds in San Jose, I used to drool over the CAR 15 clones people were making out of Colt SP1 ARs. There's just something appealing about those graceful round handguards and smallish original pattern CAR buttstock (yes, I realize this is a fibrite type; still it's an attractive, compact design). The first two thousand M16A2s were delivered to ITS East and West back in 1984, and they had those larger pattern forward assist plungers (they also had M16A1 style ejection port covers). Damned if they didn't tear the hell out of my and others trigger fingers when training with the rifle on the bayonet assault course. The problem was noted, and Colt sent some engineers to Camp Pendleton to look into the problem. They solved it by producing a smaller "button" on the plunger. Not sure if it was exactly like the one you have pictured, but it was close. |
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Haha nice!
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It is a good looking carbine. Growing up and attending the gun shows at the Santa Clara Co fairgrounds in San Jose, I used to drool over the CAR 15 clones people were making out of Colt SP1 ARs. There's just something appealing about those graceful round handguards and smallish original pattern CAR buttstock (yes, I realize this is a fibrite type; still it's an attractive, compact design). The first two thousand M16A2s were delivered to ITS East and West back in 1984, and they had those larger pattern forward assist plungers (they also had M16A1 style ejection port covers). Damned if they didn't tear the hell out of my and others trigger fingers when training with the rifle on the bayonet assault course. The problem was noted, and Colt sent some engineers to Camp Pendleton to look into the problem. They solved it by producing a smaller "button" on the plunger. Not sure if it was exactly like the one you have pictured, but it was close. Quoted:
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Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. Not an A1 upper.
Nice Colt 723 clone though. http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/2/29/Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg/400px-Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg Needs a notched large button forward assist to be complete. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/gunslinger1971/IMG_2546.jpg It is a good looking carbine. Growing up and attending the gun shows at the Santa Clara Co fairgrounds in San Jose, I used to drool over the CAR 15 clones people were making out of Colt SP1 ARs. There's just something appealing about those graceful round handguards and smallish original pattern CAR buttstock (yes, I realize this is a fibrite type; still it's an attractive, compact design). The first two thousand M16A2s were delivered to ITS East and West back in 1984, and they had those larger pattern forward assist plungers (they also had M16A1 style ejection port covers). Damned if they didn't tear the hell out of my and others trigger fingers when training with the rifle on the bayonet assault course. The problem was noted, and Colt sent some engineers to Camp Pendleton to look into the problem. They solved it by producing a smaller "button" on the plunger. Not sure if it was exactly like the one you have pictured, but it was close. They made two of them, a full round for rifles with an A1 profile lower and a notched one (as pictured) for the A2 profile lowers. |
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Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. Nice...I have the same rifle but I used a NODAK trigger upper. |
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They made two of them, a full round for rifles with an A1 profile lower and a notched one (as pictured) for the A2 profile lowers. Quoted:
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Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. Not an A1 upper.
Nice Colt 723 clone though. http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/2/29/Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg/400px-Colt-M-16-A-2-m723.jpg Needs a notched large button forward assist to be complete. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/gunslinger1971/IMG_2546.jpg It is a good looking carbine. Growing up and attending the gun shows at the Santa Clara Co fairgrounds in San Jose, I used to drool over the CAR 15 clones people were making out of Colt SP1 ARs. There's just something appealing about those graceful round handguards and smallish original pattern CAR buttstock (yes, I realize this is a fibrite type; still it's an attractive, compact design). The first two thousand M16A2s were delivered to ITS East and West back in 1984, and they had those larger pattern forward assist plungers (they also had M16A1 style ejection port covers). Damned if they didn't tear the hell out of my and others trigger fingers when training with the rifle on the bayonet assault course. The problem was noted, and Colt sent some engineers to Camp Pendleton to look into the problem. They solved it by producing a smaller "button" on the plunger. Not sure if it was exactly like the one you have pictured, but it was close. They made two of them, a full round for rifles with an A1 profile lower and a notched one (as pictured) for the A2 profile lowers. I could be totally wrong on this, but I recall the plungers on those early 'A2s having a round notch, and not a straight cut. That was over 30 years ago, so my memory may be failing me. |
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Quoted: Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. There's something reassuring about good old fashioned simplicity in an AR world gone eccentric. Not lamenting the latter.
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Does a "simple" rifle have to have a CAR stock and carry handle? 
<a href="http://s1258.photobucket.com/user/Rickesis/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsb3c1b500.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii522/Rickesis/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsb3c1b500.jpg</a> Nope. Just a functional rifle with minimal bullshit. Yours qualifies IMO. |
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Just finished this one for the wife... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Cincinnatus/IMG_1052-2_zpsqo7bywxw.jpg A1 upper, carbine length gas system, 14.5" GI profile barrel, Colt stock. Post 'em if you have 'em. |
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<a href="https://flic.kr/p/t3ULRs" target="_blank">https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7786/17754562436_8a307f0ca4_b.jpg</a>Untitled by John, on Flickr <a href="https://flic.kr/p/t6exvD" target="_blank">https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5331/17780857675_15089f08c6_b.jpg</a>Untitled by John, on Flickr Wow, that's awesome. |
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<a href="https://flic.kr/p/t3ULRs" target="_blank">https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7786/17754562436_8a307f0ca4_b.jpg</a>Untitled by John, on Flickr <a href="https://flic.kr/p/t6exvD" target="_blank">https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5331/17780857675_15089f08c6_b.jpg</a>Untitled by John, on Flickr Wow, that's awesome. Thank you. KISS was the guiding force during the build. |
