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.
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?
Great rifle! Congrats!
There’s a whole thread on it
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...AR-15-XM177-E2
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