LMT are not marked with an "F" as COLT and some others but are the correct "F" milspec height.
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LMT are not marked with an "F" as COLT and some others but are the correct "F" milspec height.
anyone have any experience with the cheaper, but decent looking carry handle made by CAA ..Command Arms???
This is exactly my experience, but I've got to wonder when Colt designed the CH, why they didn't create it with a shelf height that was compatible with the existing FSB? Seems to me the commercial spec is the more logical way to go. As the milspec stands, two new parts had to be introuduced into the supply system -- a tailored "F" marked FSB and the CH. With the commercial standard, just one part -- the CH. Seems simpler and more logical to me anyway.
I'm just wondering what the engineering rationale was.
Do you know in the history of the M16/M4, when the removable carry handle was introduced? Did the introduction of the M4 drive introduction of the RCH, or was the RCH designed prior for some M16 variant? I thought M16A4s came pretty late to the game.