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Love the Retros! Here's my ( Colt 607) CAR-16 commando frankinCAR
A-2 Match upper, Radin charging handle, and Socom barrel, standard lower with early no finger bump pistol grip and ultra rare stock!
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Love the Retros! Here's my ( Colt 607) CAR-16 commando frankinCAR
A-2 Match upper, Radin charging handle, and Socom barrel, standard lower with early no finger bump pistol grip and ultra rare stock!
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Sweet! I also just built a clone 623 "Irene", just for the fun of it.
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OK, so I dug her out from waaaaaay back in the safe for ya, @Hooyah DeepSea...
She's a Colt A2 Sporter II, A1 upper w/teardrop FA, no brass deflector, A1 slabside lower, and the barrel has been cut down to 10½" and fitted w/peened 6-port, 5½" moderator. Stock, grip, trigger guard, and handguard have been replaced with more modern furniture than the original (stock=PSA, all else=Magpul). The pivot pin (originally fitted w/screw pin) has been replaced with a QR pin, and the hammer and trigger springs have been replaced with red ones. S/N of SP31XXXX places her earlier than 1985, so she's a pre-ban beauty.
I got her from my brother, and he bought her NIB, so she's the oldest AR-pattern rifle I have, out of many. This is the same rifle that we used to use in that old farmer's field BITD to shoot groundchunks that would dig holes in his cow pasture. Then his cows would step in the holes and break their legs, so then he had to shoot them and slaughter them before they were really beefed up and finished. So he paid me and my brother $1 for each groundchunk tail we'd bring him at the end of a day's shooting. That old man kept us in beer and ammo for years...
Ever since that unfortunate boating accident a few years ago in which her bumpstock was tragically lost, she's been living in the back of the safe. That was fun, that cackling laugh that used to emanate from me when we'd dump a mag in about 3 seconds, back when ammo was cheap...
She's a Colt A2 Sporter II, A1 upper w/teardrop FA, no brass deflector, A1 slabside lower, and the barrel has been cut down to 10½" and fitted w/peened 6-port, 5½" moderator. Stock, grip, trigger guard, and handguard have been replaced with more modern furniture than the original (stock=PSA, all else=Magpul). The pivot pin (originally fitted w/screw pin) has been replaced with a QR pin, and the hammer and trigger springs have been replaced with red ones. S/N of SP31XXXX places her earlier than 1985, so she's a pre-ban beauty.
I got her from my brother, and he bought her NIB, so she's the oldest AR-pattern rifle I have, out of many. This is the same rifle that we used to use in that old farmer's field BITD to shoot groundchunks that would dig holes in his cow pasture. Then his cows would step in the holes and break their legs, so then he had to shoot them and slaughter them before they were really beefed up and finished. So he paid me and my brother $1 for each groundchunk tail we'd bring him at the end of a day's shooting. That old man kept us in beer and ammo for years...
Ever since that unfortunate boating accident a few years ago in which her bumpstock was tragically lost, she's been living in the back of the safe. That was fun, that cackling laugh that used to emanate from me when we'd dump a mag in about 3 seconds, back when ammo was cheap...
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I have an old 'Nam vet who was in loaches back in the day, who wants something similar to his helo gun. So, it looks like I'll be building another shortly.
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I had to look up "Loaches"...
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Freakin youngsters . . .
Officially called a Cayuse, (Army helos are all named after Native American tribes) the OH-6 helicopter, commonly called a 'Loach' was used primarily for light observation and scouting missions.
Officially called a Cayuse, (Army helos are all named after Native American tribes) the OH-6 helicopter, commonly called a 'Loach' was used primarily for light observation and scouting missions.
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I wouldn't call 63 (tomorrow!
) a "freaking youngster", although I'm obviously younger than by a few years, since I wasn't old enough to serve in Vietnam at the time it was goin' on...I am aware that all US Army helos are named after Native American tribes. I'm pretty sure that does not universally apply across the entire US military apparatus. Consider, say, the US Navy's helos...
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I've only got you by 3 years in age, but I did 20 in the Navy, so real familiar with mil-stuff.
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Been around mil-stuff almost my entire life, all over the world. Plus read about it like it was goin' outta style. So, while not "real familiar", I can hold my own...
No sense measuring dicks, here, yunno...
Can we get back to talking about XM-177s?
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So when is the spanking?And I think that third line is s'pozed to be sump'n like:
Hippo birdies, deer sobo...
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It's cool to see the experienced guys talking. Respect to ya all.
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Yeah, talking; rather than mumbling and gumming it through their soup !!!
So, front to back; Mk18 Mod 1, Mk18 Mod 0, XM177E1, and Colt 723 ("Irene").
Does that do it for ya, Sobo?
So, front to back; Mk18 Mod 1, Mk18 Mod 0, XM177E1, and Colt 723 ("Irene").
Does that do it for ya, Sobo?
Why not? Sensitive?
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It does!
Is that a teardrop plunger on that XM?
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Yuppers! got a couple from a guy over in Sherwood, OR
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