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Thread: Colt M16 A1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uni-Vibe View Post
    Wow. I bought the Brownells M16A1 reproduction, but yours is the real deal. Looks awesome.


    I have a magazine like that. On the bottom it says "Adventure Line M16 / M16A1 cal 5.56mm" and has the same aluminum follower.

    I thought Switzerland recently went California on gun control?
    I also have an Adventure Line, but it’s a 30 rounder, with a plastic follower, it came with the SP1 I bought.



    Well I don’t know about California, but yes we will have stricter gun laws soon, following the vote we had back in May.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OLIAR15 View Post
    What was it used for originally?
    The most common military uses of the Kerr NoBuckl sling were:

    USMC M1903 rifles (M1917 slings, during WWI),
    USA M1917 rifles (M1917 slings, during WWI), and;
    M1/M1A1 Thompson submachine guns (M1917 and M3 slings, during WWII).

    Most Kerr NoBuckl slings were khaki in color, although I suppose there may have been OD#7 ones made after 1942/43 for the Thompson (I know there were green Kerr NoBuckl slings, so I'm just guessing that they were post-42 manufacture, but they were also sold commercially and thus may have been available commercially into the 50s).
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    Great pictures. I’m sure a lot of that finish wear is from the military cleaning regimen.


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    Looks to be all original. Thanks for sharing the pictures, rifle dates to March 1973 give or take a month, Colt was delivering about 12,250 rifles a month at the time. Thats Ekie math.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CESwartz07 View Post
    Great pictures. I’m sure a lot of that finish wear is from the military cleaning regimen.
    Yep, plus there would be damage to the rifling.

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    Some of that wear is astonishing.

    Great thread, pics, and rifle. About as cool of a rifle as one could find in my book.

    OP....can we get some pics of the xm177e2?

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    Great rifle! Congrats!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ekie View Post
    Looks to be all original. Thanks for sharing the pictures, rifle dates to March 1973 give or take a month, Colt was delivering about 12,250 rifles a month at the time. Thats Ekie math.
    Thanks for the date / math

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    Quote Originally Posted by ALCOAR View Post
    Some of that wear is astonishing.

    Great thread, pics, and rifle. About as cool of a rifle as one could find in my book.

    OP....can we get some pics of the xm177e2?
    There’s a whole thread on it

    https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...AR-15-XM177-E2

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