Anybody have more info on this teaser? (Colt LE6960 Mid-Length)

[TexasAggie2005]

Colt 16" midlength with a Centurion MLOK Rail.



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[M&P15T]

Colt being massively late to the party? Like, decades?

Colt has always ignored the civilian market, because they had .mil contracts. Now they don't, so now they're making 1/2 hearted, late attempts at building what the civilian market has been begging them for.

**** Colt.

Colt; Because you suck, and we hate you.

[C4IGrant]

Colt being massively late to the party? Like, decades?

Colt has always ignored the civilian market, because they had .mil contracts. Now they don't, so now they're making 1/2 hearted, late attempts at building what the civilian market has been begging them for.

**** Colt.

Colt; Because you suck, and we hate you.

Actually incorrect. Colt has foreign and US .Mil contract CURRENTLY.

The reason why Colt never made a middy is because their engineers didn't see a real need.


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[M&P15T]

Actually incorrect. Colt has foreign and US .Mil contract CURRENTLY.

The reason why Colt never made a middy is because their engineers didn't see a real need.


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Colt never saw a business reason to offer many things, including a mid-length gas system. In the end, Colt kept it's back turned to the civilian market for decades. But now after bankruptcy and seeing other companies like BCM and DD do the same thing far better, and seeing their slice of the .mil contract pie cut drastically, they're suddenly deciding to care about us civilians.

To hell with them. They're as bad as H&K.

[C4IGrant]

Colt never saw a business reason to offer many things, including a mid-length gas system. In the end, Colt kept it's back turned to the civilian market for decades. But now after bankruptcy and seeing other companies like BCM and DD do the same thing far better, and seeing their slice of the .mil contract pie cut drastically, they're suddenly deciding to care about us civilians.

To hell with them. They're as bad as H&K.

Somewhat true. If the Govt wasn't asking for one, they weren't building one. With that said, they have turned more to the commercial sales side and still didn't make one. Reason? Not a huge difference in performance. What they failed to grasp (at least the engineering dept.) is that people wanted longer rails.


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[M&P15T]

Somewhat true. If the Govt wasn't asking for one, they weren't building one. With that said, they have turned more to the commercial sales side and still didn't make one. Reason? Not a huge difference in performance. What they failed to grasp (at least the engineering dept.) is that people wanted longer rails.C4

Shoot a 6920 and a BCM mid-length with their Gunfighter comp side-by-side, and tell me there's no huge difference.

Again, it's not just gas-system lengths where Colt has mired itself in do-nothingness.

It's simple; they made 0 effort to cater to the civilian market, up until the last year or so. They ignored the civilian market like it didn't exist. Businesses that ignore their customers don't stay in business for long. Hence, bankruptcy.

[BGREID]

Colt never saw a business reason to offer many things, including a mid-length gas system. In the end, Colt kept it's back turned to the civilian market for decades. But now after bankruptcy and seeing other companies like BCM and DD do the same thing far better, and seeing their slice of the .mil contract pie cut drastically, they're suddenly deciding to care about us civilians.

To hell with them. They're as bad as H&K.

I concur!

[leibermuster]

Colt never saw a business reason to offer many things, including a mid-length gas system. In the end, Colt kept it's back turned to the civilian market for decades. But now after bankruptcy and seeing other companies like BCM and DD do the same thing far better, and seeing their slice of the .mil contract pie cut drastically, they're suddenly deciding to care about us civilians.

To hell with them. They're as bad as H&K.

No HK was the one company that stood up to 94 weapons ban and paid the biggest price for it.

[Devildawg2531]

Actually incorrect. Colt has foreign and US .Mil contract CURRENTLY.

The reason why Colt never made a middy is because their engineers didn't see a real need.


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Unless Colt is radically different than most organizations. Doubtful Engineers are making that decision. Marketing / Product Mgmt assessing market share / ROI and then Engineers design to the product spec requested.

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Unless Colt is radically different than most organizations. Doubtful Engineers are making that decision. Marketing / Product Mgmt assessing market share / ROI and then Engineers design to the product spec requested.

We deal with lots of companies. One optics manufacturer lets production run the show (meaning decide what they want to run). If the engineering dept. at Colt doesn't think it is needed (and there isn't someone in upper management that really want to see it done), they don't do it.

While I was consulting for a large gun manufacturer (not Colt), I got to sit in on an engineering meeting. There was no question they they were in charge and told everyone else how things were going to be. I am sure it isn't that way with all companies, but from my experience it commonly is.



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