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Posted: 11/26/2007 5:47:16 AM EDT
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I went to the gun show this weekend with the intention of purchasing some items on a list that I had made. I did purchase one item that wasn't on my list though. I scored this slick side parkerized M16 bolt carrier for seventy five bucks! It doesn't have a key but that shouldn't be too difficult to correct. What models of M16's would this carrier be correct for? You know I've got to build one now. It only takes one part to get started. 
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You should have known better than to buy something without checking here first. Don't you know there are people here that know more than most on what stuff is worth.  Seriously, as mentioned, these don't pop up too often and that's a good find. The ones I've seen listed with keys sold for twice as much. I hate finding stuff I'm not looking for. |
If you found it in the bottom of a "junk box" then it was a good deal regardless of how much you paid.  I am always looking for things that are not on my list, that's what is fun about going to shows. At the last Tulsa show I bought 8 20 round Colt mags, some .223 marked and some 5.56 marked all in excellent shape for $35! I was digging around on a guys table and saw them behind a bunch of 30 round mags. I think you got a nice part a a good price. Let us know what you build with it.
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This is what I was thinking. I saw some recently on the EE that were going somewhere between $100 and $150 but with a key and a bolt respectively. I really didn't think that I got ripped off paying $75 for it, particularly when it is the genuine article, not a reproduction. I did think that it was a fair deal though. Heck, I haven't seen very many M16 bolt carriers of any kind for less than $75 in some time now. I remember the good old days when you could buy them all day long for $40 to $50 each. There are still deals out there but I'm seeing ever increasing prices from parts in both the new and used market. |
The only difference between this site and a gunshow is that they are sitting at their keyboards bitching instead on the other side of my table. Everyone can always get it faster, cheaper and better somewhere else yet they still browse the gunshow tables. A fair buy, enjoy your new BC dude, they are not lying around every corner. |
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The only great deals I found at the gun show where on Sunday night. Oh man you really don't want to pack that up and lug it all the way back to your car do you. Let me lighten your load. That was before e-Bay. Nice Bolt Carrier show us your project when you are finished. 
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