Early AR-10 Reliability?

[dorchester]

Be careful here, the modern Armalite produced some AR10's with just those features a few years ago. The store owner MAY be trying to pull a fast one. I find it hard to believe that if he did have one of the old originals he wouldn't know it. Having said that, my current AR10 has always been very reliable. As long as I kept hunting-style soft point ammo out of it, it has always worked great. Of course, I'm not dragging it through an Angolan jungle either.

[armakraut]

http://www.impactguns.com/store/651984150153.html

This is an AR-10B made by the new Armalite company. If their rifles took real AR10 magazines and weren't gassed to run match ammo, they might actually be worth their sticker price.

[TOrrock]

There's a dealer, I believe he's in PA, who makes it to the Nation's GunShow in Chantilly, VA, who deals in real/retro AR-10's. I've drooled over 5 original parts kit semi auto rifles he had at a show, and an original transferrable.

All original AR-10's will be select fire and NFA weapons. There were a number of different attempts to make civilian legal semi auto lowers for the parts kits that were available 30 years or so ago.

Sendra (which became Bushmaster) and Telco were two I can think of off the top of my head. There was a third but I can't remember.

The Armalite AR-10B looks like an original Sudanese version (superficially), but the stocks would be new and made out of a modern material.

Original AR-10's didn't have a case deflector on the upper receiver either.

[Amicus]

Be careful here, the modern Armalite produced some AR10's with just those features a few years ago. The store owner MAY be trying to pull a fast one. I find it hard to believe that if he did have one of the old originals he wouldn't know it. Having said that, my current AR10 has always been very reliable. As long as I kept hunting-style soft point ammo out of it, it has always worked great. Of course, I'm not dragging it through an Angolan jungle either.

Dorchester & Templar:

Yeah, a quick check of the above photos and Ezell's "Small Arms of the World" made it clear that it was a later "retro" version. I've got better things to spend my money on.

BTW, today is Friday the 13th. Pray for the Templars.

[ThirdWatcher]

Having said that, my current AR10 has always been very reliable. As long as I kept hunting-style soft point ammo out of it, it has always worked great. Of course, I'm not dragging it through an Angolan jungle either.

My experience with my ArmaLite AR10A2 (Infantry Model) is consistent with yours.