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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: Pollster1

If you have to “reach out and touch someone”, you are better off with either the Garand or the M-14.


21 posted on 11/29/2016 6:00:44 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Iron Munro

$2,499 MSRP?Good grief.I paid $1600.00 for my M16A1 in 1992,$1800.00 if you include the tax stamp.


22 posted on 11/29/2016 6:02:13 AM PST by Farmer Dean (Boating accident?Seriously?)
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To: Iron Munro
Loading a Garand properly or closing the bolt without maiming yourself just takes a little practice. Never had a problem.

I fired it a few hundred times, only had a problem 4 or 5 times. That was too much for my taste. Every time I slip up, it's way too memorable. The M1 Garand is the only firearm I ever owned and got rid of.

23 posted on 11/29/2016 6:12:45 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: PeteB570

The solid bottom also reduces dust and debris thrwon up from muzzle blast when firing in the prone position.


24 posted on 11/29/2016 6:25:15 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: Joe Brower

This weekend I got to play around with a buddies new Barrett REC7DI. It’s running around $1900 and it just put the Noveske in the back seat for me.

https://barrett.net/firearms/rec7di/


25 posted on 11/29/2016 6:26:43 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Joe Brower

Eh. I’ll stick with my MForgery. Got a 20” HB with a nice little scope for my weary aged eyes.


26 posted on 11/29/2016 6:26:44 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: Joe Brower

Does the retro have the propensity to jam like the original ones that got GIs killed in Nam??


27 posted on 11/29/2016 6:31:59 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Joe Brower

There is another “Retro “ out now,,,
Half that price.
Featured on a popular Gun mag last month.

Tempted me ,seriously.


28 posted on 11/29/2016 6:44:17 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Joe Brower

You’re moving in the wrong direction Colt.


29 posted on 11/29/2016 6:53:24 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Noumenon

16” spiral fluted custom made heavy barrel on mine. I like just a touch of bling. A glass breaker Yankee Machine Works muzzle brake adds just the right touch of “comply”.

LOL.


30 posted on 11/29/2016 6:55:02 AM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Gamecock

“Wonder how long it would take me to field strip that puppy”

I despised trying to put those hand guards back on, in time.


31 posted on 11/29/2016 7:02:21 AM PST by lacrew
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To: C19fan

“Does the retro have the propensity to jam like the original ones that got GIs killed in Nam??”

I think I spy a forward assist in the photo...so probably.


32 posted on 11/29/2016 7:03:58 AM PST by lacrew
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To: C19fan
As I understand it, the malfunctions of the first M16s fielded in Vietnam were due to a last-minute, foolish change in the powder used in the M193 ammo, and lack of chrome-lined bores. That, and telling the troops that it didn't need cleaning. All of which were fixed rather quickly, although this should have been done right off the bat.

I ran over 2,000 rounds through mine on a three-day romp in the Florida Everglades -- rain and mud and lots of it. I didn't clean it -- just applied LSA to the BCG about every 500 rounds. Zero malfunctions.

Of course, I wasn't in any firefights, thankfully, but I did run about 300 rounds through it in about ten minutes just for the hell of it as we were leaving, and while the handguards got too hot to hold, it ran everything; no jams.

33 posted on 11/29/2016 7:06:22 AM PST by Joe Brower ( Les deplorables sont victorieux!)
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To: Lurker

A little bling never hurt anyone. Stay frosty my friend. Speaking of which, you’ve got a fairly extensive Arctic push headed your way next week.


34 posted on 11/29/2016 7:07:25 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: RC one
"You’re moving in the wrong direction Colt."

I don't agree. This is retro by design. Although the price tag is unfortunately hefty.

Along the same line of thinking, I'm hoping that Colt will wake up and start making Pythons again.

35 posted on 11/29/2016 7:08:53 AM PST by Joe Brower ( Les deplorables sont victorieux!)
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To: Pollster1

Got an M1 and love it, but loading that thing scares the hell out of me. I’ve seen an example of “M1” thumb and it ain’t pretty.


36 posted on 11/29/2016 7:18:47 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: Pollster1

It’s all in how you do it with the M-1. At Parris Island, I fired the M-1 LEFT HANDED. Never got my hand caught. Now, pushing the operating rod back with just your thumb, THAT takes some doing.


37 posted on 11/29/2016 7:22:21 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Joe Brower

Maybe one day they can put out a retro M16 that really is an M16 and not a faux M16.

Wonder how long it’ll be before that fake “Auto” position on the selector switch gets someone in trouble.


38 posted on 11/29/2016 7:23:09 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: Joe Brower

I remember reading the gun magazine reviews of that rifle back in the 1960s and 1970s.
In the 1960s it was the up and coming light sporting rifle! Great to shoot, light, accurate!

In the 1970s it became the step child of the gun industry! Too light, inaccurate, useless, a mouse gun. Not good for “real” hunting of game like deer! You could not give those rifles away!

Then Mel Tappan wrote his book SURVIVAL GUNS and edited an article in GUNS AND AMMO on Survival guns. The love of the .223 and other semi auto rifles took off like a rocket!

I bought my first AR-15 in 1971 and like a dummy I traded it off several years later. Then went to the first Mini-14, then they disappeared from the shelves (sent to France as a police rifle), the got an AR-180 Howa and like a dummy again traded it off. Now I have a Sterling which is not near the quality of the Howa.

Some things I never learned.


39 posted on 11/29/2016 7:27:20 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Joe Brower

“Along the same line of thinking, I’m hoping that Colt will wake up and start making Pythons again.”

Amen - finest revolver ever made. Trigger breaks like glass.


40 posted on 11/29/2016 7:31:00 AM PST by FBRhawk (Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
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