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Posted: 5/30/2004 12:07:39 PM EDT
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Hi, I think that the A2 tube is the same but has had a small spacer added so that a longer A2 LOP stock can be used, is that correct? Building a lower which I plan to use the barrel from an A2 rifle left back at my pops in another state - until I pick it up, I will install an A1 buttstock and shoot with another upper. I can just unscrew and swap buttstocks when the time comes, adding the spacer - right? |
Absolutly correct, though I don't lnow why you'd want to change back and forth between the A1 and A2 stocks. Was I you, I'd just mount the length that feels better, and leave it on. Most folks 6 feet and under feel that the A1 stock feels better, but that's a strictly personal type thing
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Heh - thanks, you guys. Okay, I'll explain. Has to do with owning parts but not having them at hand. I am sitting on a stripped Eagle/ArmaLite receiver from Quantico. My intent was to take the barrel, bolt, and buttstock from an early Colt Gov't Model I own, which is sitting in a safe about 3600 miles west, add an A4 upper and have a nice flattop, about the 2nd week of Sept. ;) (The Colt is so early that it is marked "AR15A2 GOVERNMENT MODEL" but has a slabsided lower and C7 type upper with A1 rear sight and brass hump). Since there are some nice new A1 buttstock assemblies and uppers floating around, I thought I might just assemble the lower as an A1, and if I am not able to reunite with my rifle before 9/14/04, I'll have a nice A1 to shoot for a while. Ultimately the Colt becomes a 16" carbine, another rifle will be an A4 with Gov't barrel, and I'll have to get a 3rd receiver for the A1 build, and of course, other projects follow... (I think the MEGA lower would be slickly retro with that logo, if it didn't have the gator-grip in front). Oh, I am over 6' so I have no issue with the A2 buttstock. The A1 is fine too. I like Mausers but they are unpleasant to shoot due to the short LOP as I perceive it. |
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