Colt CAR-15 XM177 E2

[OLIAR15]

A few weeks ago I received the grenade ring I ordered, today I took a few pics of the rifle

[sinister]

WOW! She's a beauty!

[Dirk Williams]

Very nice. I purchased one of these post Navy, 1983. It's an oddball. Every part in it, on it is colt, except for the front flash piece. . The lower is poorly stamped " Olympic" yet everything's colt?.

The story told was that Olympic in its infancy was rebuilding mil guns and selling them. Then started to manufacture their own stuff. Poorly I might add.

Truth is I don't know. Will say it's accurate, and the selector still swings thru all three positions. My uncle has it, now. It's mine, I just left it with him to play with. I need to recover it, he's pushing 85 now.

Anybody know the story, willing to educate me?

Dirk

[ar15dave]

Loved that gun. Carried one during the Gulf War. Nice and compact. Made a replica but would love to get my hands on a real upper to put on my NFA lower.

Dave

[1trp45]

Nice rifle, speaking of Olympic Arms, I purchased a clone type rifle of that vintage 18 years ago. And you were right about the quality , it was okay back but not to standards of today. I am building a copy using a LuthAR upper, Colt SOCOM barrel and a custom lower from MOA customs, custom logo lower. Great company to work with, not a true clone but with a no-logo lower.


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