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Posted: 9/16/2002 10:08:38 PM EDT
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The prices you've listed are way way too high. Think of them as MSRP, something no one with an ounce of sense ever pays, IMO.
Prebans are going for about $1200, sometimes a bit less, depending on what part of the country one is in. |
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Posted: 9/17/2002 3:14:54 AM EDT
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extremist, I've done better communicating with Colt with a phone call. Check with "stokes" here on AR15.com as he will likely have info re your rifle. Production numbers, etc. Just to be sure, yours is the rifle and not the carbine ?? |
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Posted: 9/17/2002 6:45:17 PM EDT
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Yes, it a 20" barrel rifle, not the carbine. I will try and drop Stokes a note.
As for price, I've not seen any NIB Colt Preban models go for under 1600 unless it's an old SP1. I've got to believe that the R6400 has some unique appeal as a Colt collector since no one seems to have cataloged that part number in their list. :D Regards, James |
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Posted: 9/18/2002 6:54:02 PM EDT
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Called Colt today. All she could tell me for "free" was that it was made before 1991, she guessed 1985-1989.
Costs $25 to do history trace on it to find out - How it left the factory - Where it went - How many of that particular model - etc. Pics are up on my website now: http://www.lenaburgs.net/For-Sale.htm Regards, James |
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Posted: 9/18/2002 7:10:08 PM EDT
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Don't forget to contact Stokes and also you might give Cactus Jack a try. Cactus is worth about $50 million and only buys the real high dollar stuff !! |
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Posted: 9/18/2002 11:05:08 PM EDT
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I doubt you are going to find many lookers, and even less takers at the $2200 price tag you are asking. Who knows, maybe you will find someone who "needs" that particular model to fill a collection. Good luck.
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Posted: 9/19/2002 11:13:42 AM EDT
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I'm not familiar with the R6400. This is the first I've heard of it. It looks to have the features of a R6500.
I'm going to guess that it has a Government profile barrel, and a AR15-A2 marked lower. Probably has a "SP3XX,XXX" serial number. If so, I'd guess that it's a R6500 that has a misprinted label. At that, R6500s are about the lest desireable green labels. I'd guess a NIB version would retail for $1400, maybe $1500. If it is some rare version, that is somehow different than a R6500 (other than the label on the box), I guess it would command some sort of premium. Not much, as 20" guns with A1 sights are not in demand (as there are about 300,000 SP1s that look almost just like it). I would like to think that I'm a collector, even if my collection is a bit anemic. One of the guns that is not in my collection is a R6500. I'd probably pay about $1200 for one, NIB. I'd probably only pay a $50 premium for a mismarked label. Now, if your gun (not box, but gun) was marked weird, or if it was something other than a R6500, I'd be more interested in opening up the wallet wider. If it was 222 instead of 223, I could come up with about 50% more money. Hope this helps a bit. |
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Posted: 9/19/2002 11:25:17 AM EDT
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Ignore my last message. I waited for all of your pictures to load. This gun does look like a R6500. My best guess would be that there might have been a transition from the SP1s (R6000) to the R6500, where they had some referred to as the R6400. The only update that I can see on the R6500 over your gun is the disconnect. Other than that, it looks like a R6500 to me.
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Posted: 9/19/2002 5:47:14 PM EDT
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Stokes,
Thanks for the response. I agree, it looks just like the R6500, and as you can see from the label on the box, it is not a mismarked label, probably some kind of transition model before the R6500 came out. I've got a: - NIB R6400 - LNIB R6450 (maybe 200 rounds fired-original owner) - LN No Box R6600 (unknown rounds, but looks 95%) - NIB R6601K (R6601 packaged with .22LR Kit) - Put together R6500 lower with pencil barrel 16" A2 upper. - 95% Bushmaster XM15E2S A2 Carbine with 16" HBAR 1/9 barrel (preban bought 9/94 right before ban) So my collection is not super, but not bad. :D I guess I'll hang onto it for now. Regards, James |
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