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First Impression: Colt’s new Retro M16A1 Reissue
Guns and Tech ^ | 11/28/2016 | Timothy Yan

Posted on 11/29/2016 5:25:55 AM PST by Joe Brower

Gunsite, Az, at the Colt Media Event, Colt unveiled the finished version of their new M16A1 retro build named the Colt M16A1 Reissue. We were lucky to get a sneak peek of the Colt M16A1 Reissue back in May 2016 during the NRA Annual Meeting in Kentucky. The retro rifle is built from with original Colt furniture, new manufactured receiver set and new barrel. The Colt M16A1 Reissue should be available in early 2017, if not sooner.

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To: Noumenon

Yea, we’ve seen it coming. Been blessed with warm for November weather lately. But it’s Chicago so we know what we are in for.

Mrs. L started her AR build. Has her girlie Fluer De Lis hand guard, match trigger, and charging handle heading out for a nice subtle purple Cerakote this week. She picked her custom barrel, lower, and upper out last week.

Why oh why did I let her shoot mine?

LOL.

Best,

L


41 posted on 11/29/2016 7:34:47 AM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Lurker

Well, you know that’s always how it starts. Gotta get my snow plow blade mounted on the ATV. Too poor to afford a decent tractor.


42 posted on 11/29/2016 7:39:43 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: Joe Brower

Several years ago while doing some humanitarian relief work in Burma, I came across an XM16E1 Experimental from the first batch sent to Vietnam around 1964. It was in the possession of an ethnic resistance fighter. It had been in use in a jungle war zone for almost 40 years.

I could not figure out a way to get it back to the US but it would be quite the collector’s item.


43 posted on 11/29/2016 7:41:36 AM PST by FBRhawk (Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
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To: The Toll

I bought one of these back on July 4th for $1,700 off of gunbroker.com

I took it home over thanksgiving and shot a mag’s worth of rounds through it. It was spot on using one of those cheap SigTac Mag 3 Mode Reticle scopes.

I like it! Though, definitely not cheap.


44 posted on 11/29/2016 7:45:34 AM PST by Man from Oz (Obama is the skidmark left on AmericaÂ’s underpants after a 7 year long fart.)
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To: Joe Brower

http://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=1735
The Army and Marines thought the M-16 was some kind of Buck Rogers freak.
When it first came out they didn’t even have cleaning kits. The article discusses the powder problem.
Good old Colt: state of the art mil spec, circa 1963.


45 posted on 11/29/2016 7:47:34 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Joe Brower

Now might not be the time to bring out a $2400 AR since, in our area at least, there seems to be a glut of ARs. Our local Armslist is loaded with people trying to sell. Good prices too.


46 posted on 11/29/2016 8:09:06 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Noumenon

Dude, I’m stuck with a Home Depot shovel.


47 posted on 11/29/2016 8:09:39 AM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Joe Brower
...I'm hoping that Colt will wake up and start making Pythons again.

LOL...you're old enough to know the line about hoping in one hand and spitting in the other. The machines, people, and processes that created the work of art known as the Colt Python have left the building in CT, never to be seen again. The tribal knowledge no longer exists to re-create such perfection. Hope this info doesn't ruin your holiday spirit...

48 posted on 11/29/2016 8:14:33 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Lurker

Put yer back into it, lad.


49 posted on 11/29/2016 8:18:22 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: Noumenon

That’s where I keep my wallet. $20 to one of the young bucks in the neighborhood. Saves a ton on chiropractic visits.


50 posted on 11/29/2016 8:23:37 AM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Lurker

Not that’s the ticket. And you can still reward yourself with a fine cigar and a single malt when the job is done.


51 posted on 11/29/2016 8:24:37 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: BwanaNdege
If you have to “reach out and touch someone”, you are better off with either the Garand or the M-14.

For long distance messages, I'm just as happy with bolt action.

52 posted on 11/29/2016 8:29:38 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Noumenon

Indeed. Nothing like surveying the vast Lurker Estate with a clean driveway.


53 posted on 11/29/2016 8:46:32 AM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Lurker; Noumenon
Dude, I’m stuck with a Home Depot shovel.

You are still rich. I had to buy my shovel from WalMart!

54 posted on 11/29/2016 8:50:05 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: C19fan
Does the retro have the propensity to jam like the original ones that got GIs killed in Nam??

The original AR-15s we got in the USAF never had a reliability problem. The army's M-16A-1 had the reputation

That was due to the ammunition the army specified fouling the chamber. The USAF used a different load. It also was lack of proper cleaning kits and instruction. The army troops were initially told the rifle was "self cleaning".

Another improvement to minimize carbon build up was chroming the chamber to minimize fouling.

55 posted on 11/29/2016 9:01:24 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Gamecock

I think I handled the same one you handled 5 years later.


56 posted on 11/29/2016 7:21:46 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Joe Brower

The market is saturated with AR15s. The last thing it needs is a retro M16A1 IMO, especially a pricey one. I doubt this will be a huge money maker for Colt and I doubt that they will ever bring back the Python although I would probably buy a couple if they did. If retro is the direction they want to go, I would like to see a retro M1 Garand-maybe a magazine fed version.


57 posted on 11/29/2016 8:03:27 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Pollster1

Tell me about it. I’m a Ruger factory certified armorer for the mini 14 and I have the thickened thumbnail to prove it.

CC


58 posted on 11/30/2016 10:37:50 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Pollster1
You won’t see any nostalgia for the M1 Garand though, I like my thumb uninjured.

Keep the heel of your right hand on the bolt handle until the clip has locked into the magazine. Remove your thumb, fingers, nose, tentacles from the action. THEN release the bolt, and nudge the back of the bolt handle with the heel of your right hand. Just to be sure.

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGPING!

59 posted on 11/30/2016 10:42:49 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Farmer Dean
I paid $1600.00 for my M16A1 in 1992,$1800.00 if you include the tax stamp.

Until we get that stupid 1986 "Gun Owners Protection" law repealed, it's probably worth at least $15,000.

60 posted on 11/30/2016 10:45:54 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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