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Posted: 8/24/2010 4:36:13 PM EDT
So today a group of Air force guys come in to the vault and want to store their M16's.Naturally we say sure and can I help you unload them.So I start looking at the weapons and find some interesting stuff.Drum roll please.......601 and 602 lower receivers on FN 20 barrels.Dimpled pins galore,Chrome slickside BCG(1 had a fat head firing pin).Oh and yes I do have pics to prove everything.Crappy cell phone pics coming soon!!!!!!! 
BTW No green stocks or grips. No triangle charging handles. No A1 barrels. [span style='font-weight: bold;'] Here is a teaser pic.I did the best I could with my cell phone.Tomorrow I will get pics with my digital camera and more data will be collected.  </a>" />
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So do you get to save them from the bin since they are obsolete anyway?  NOTE:Some of the parts were broken such as the buffer retainer springs,stripped stock screws and other small parts.They wanted these guns over hauled so that's what I did.These weapons are used strictly for training and they wanted shooters.The guys gave me full permission to over haul them and they were all officers. [span] Being ex Air Force, that is just wrong, but so right at the same time!
Well like I said they did give me full permission to do so.These guns were used and abused and needed a good over hauling.They will never be going to combat,which is a good thing. |
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That's awesome! I find it funny that they were so willing (or at least that's what I got out of "sure, go for it") to have the retro parts upgraded.  They had no clue of Colt M16 history.I touched on it briefly and they had the deer in the headlights look. |
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Awesome!
I asked a friend of mine that was in the military to do that same thing for me one time, I even gave him pictures of what I was looking for & said I would swap the old pieces for new. He told me that a person could get in a lot of trouble for doing that, for what ever reason he called it. 
Look forward to seeing the proof pics.
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Awesome! I asked a friend of mine that was in the military to do that same thing for me one time, I even gave him pictures of what I was looking for & said I would swap the old pieces for new. He told me that a person could get in a lot of trouble for doing that, for what ever reason he called it.
Look forward to seeing the proof pics. Well some of the stuff was broken so I had no other choice but to replace parts.Broken buffer retainer springs,stripped stock screws.loose buffer tubes.I basically just gave them an over haul and they were fine with it.They use these strictly for training and want them to be shooters. |
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Back at the Armory in Annapolis, non-serialized parts like those were inventoried by count only. If you were supposed to have a dozen serviceable mil-spec bolt carriers, and there were a dozen in the parts drawer, no one was going to ask if they were chromed or parked.
I do believe there were regs about providing parts from non-official sources, but as long as the replacements are genuinely mil-spec, I don't think anyone would have objected. Of course, the bottom line was always whatever the boss said. If the upline okayed a swap, I woulda swapped 'em! |
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Yeah I would have swapped them for myself and replaced them with mil-spec parts ;-) Quoted:
Back at the Armory in Annapolis, non-serialized parts like those were inventoried by count only. If you were supposed to have a dozen serviceable mil-spec bolt carriers, and there were a dozen in the parts drawer, no one was going to ask if they were chromed or parked. I do believe there were regs about providing parts from non-official sources, but as long as the replacements are genuinely mil-spec, I don't think anyone would have objected. Of course, the bottom line was always whatever the boss said. If the upline okayed a swap, I woulda swapped 'em! |
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Back at the Armory in Annapolis, non-serialized parts like those were inventoried by count only. If you were supposed to have a dozen serviceable mil-spec bolt carriers, and there were a dozen in the parts drawer, no one was going to ask if they were chromed or parked. I do believe there were regs about providing parts from non-official sources, but as long as the replacements are genuinely mil-spec, I don't think anyone would have objected. Of course, the bottom line was always whatever the boss said. If the upline okayed a swap, I woulda swapped 'em! Yes you are correct.We have what is called bench stock and some of those parts were given to us by civilian contracting companies who are no longer in buisness.The Air Force captain did ok everything as he wanted these up and running for the next training phase.You would be amazed at how dirty these guns were.It looks like someone shot 3 cases of Wolf out of them.
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