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From what I can figure, the plastic block between the stock tubes is only between them where they are closest.
That tells me it is to keep hands or anything else from getting wedged between the tubes where they are parallel. Some years ago I bought a parts kit from Canada that included a cut receiver. |
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Fun write up. Thank you.
The charging handle is also a mk46 on the semis too. The earliest ones don’t have the lightening cuts. |
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Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. I never new that the old plastic handguard could hold a cleaning kit. That's pretty cool.
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Thanks guys. The newer handguard will also stow a cleaning kit.
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OP, finally had a chance to read & admire your glorious pics. Well done, nice gat. Have you tried w/ magazines?
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Yes sir. So long as I use metal magazines, it's 100% reliable and I have a couple thousand rounds through it, mostly with a magazine. Chasing links around gets old but I still break them out for friends if they'd like because of the novelty. The bolt does wear on one of the feed lips pretty heavily so I have a dedicated steel E-Lander I use. If/when it cracks or wears through, I'll just dump it and assign another magazine. Polymer magazines in these is a definite no-go.
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A local range had to add volunteer rangemasters after a cop shooting @ a squirrel on a powerline or summat managed to hit someone several hundred yards past the pistol range.
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Thanks for the great thread @ProbableColtAddict, you've answered a lot of questions I've been thinking of.
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Great post OP! Someday I hope I'll get to own a neutered copy of my baby. I think I still have 10 or so nutsacks floating around a box somewhere.
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Aweome! Really want to sell a body part to get a 249S set up like my old issue.
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Probable colt addict may i ask where you found the recoil setup for the minimi stock? I have the stock but cant locate the recoil buffer.
Im going to give up soon. Thanks |
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Quoted: It would be fun to tool around in a Humvee w/ a 249S mounted in the turret, but the cost/fun ratio is just too high. View Quote This retro thread is awesome! Makes me think of Black Hawk Down. What would I need to mount a SAW and/or M60E3 to the M998, besides the whole turret ring assembly (which ours doesn't have)? It's a soft top. |
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Quoted: I'm buying a 249S anyway, and we have a M998 HMMWV at work. I should get turret stuff. This retro thread is awesome! Makes me think of Black Hawk Down. What would I need to mount a SAW and/or M60E3 to the M998, besides the whole turret ring assembly (which ours doesn't have)? It's a soft top. View Quote Maybe take the top off, hack a rear pintle mount a la Jeep? Otherwise, you're gonna need a hard top to start w/. |
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Quoted: Maybe take the top off, hack a rear pintle mount a la Jeep? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Otherwise, you're gonna need a hard top to start w/. It had supports holding it up. Edit: Taiwanese ROC Humvees at the Military Police Headquarters |
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Great post.
When I was in, we never kept the cleaning kit in the gun. I did see a couple of guns where the HK style sling hooks completely wore thru the ring on the stock. Never saw an issue on the receiver. Most of the barrels we had were the 2-position adjustable gas system, but we were switching to the self-regulating. One guy was issued one of the old barrels with the cone shaped flash hider. I don't remember seeing brass shavings like that in the guns. I do remember them getting very dirty with blanks. |
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Quoted: It would be fun to tool around in a Humvee w/ a 249S mounted in the turret, but the cost/fun ratio is just too high. View Quote One was sent to me from a fellow in Belgium who is a collector. It was brand new so kept searching until I found and as new used one on gunbroker. They show up but you really have to get lucky I'm afraid. There is one on GB right now as part of a lot of old pattern parts but the seller wants absolutely insane money for the parts ($3800). I think the vast majority of them in this country were destroyed when the rifles were upgraded back in the early 90's. |
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I bought an FDE para last week, took it out to shoot today. I have an M145 elcan on it- Does the 500 meter hash correspond to a 100 meter zero? My son and I zeroesd at 25m/300 but were shooting way low at 100. Do they come with the cleaning kit? I haven't taken the handguard off to check. Lastly I did read that people with posties put tons of steel case without any trouble, is this true?
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Thanks for doing this.
Cops being fuckups in the range happened at my range during closed training days for just cops at a certain department. They managed to disregard all of the rules and several bullets left the range and hit a local RV dealer damaging several RVs in the area costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. All of it done by one cop who thought it was cool to do what he did. Never happened with anyone civilian until he showed up. Now, no more 3 gun in the action range part thanks to him. |
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If you really want the retro SAW experience, you need to burn off your left thumb print for a couple of weeks.
The top handguard cover was a much needed upgrade. |
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OP, thanks for posting all this, it's super-cool.
Now not to send you down another rabbit hole, but the C9 was a mashup of US and Belgian early models - like the AR-pattern rifles, they bridge the gap between early and current. |
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I went with the newer version of the 249 and it’s like the mk46 now. I love it as a collection rifle and would put pics up of it but I can’t seem to figure out how to upload on this site. I will point out the 550 cord trick to use the sling without marking it up is great! I took the sling off when I seen it immediately scratching it up so that will be utilized thank you. I have spent a lot so far but have my eyes on another. The m240 that is a copy but we’ll made and I almost sold my FN to find it but I feel the FN has the collector status to keep the value up but that’s my theory.
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