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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If you have to “reach out and touch someone”, you are better off with either the Garand or the M-14.
$2,499 MSRP?Good grief.I paid $1600.00 for my M16A1 in 1992,$1800.00 if you include the tax stamp.
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.
The solid bottom also reduces dust and debris thrwon up from muzzle blast when firing in the prone position.
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/
Eh. I’ll stick with my MForgery. Got a 20” HB with a nice little scope for my weary aged eyes.
Does the retro have the propensity to jam like the original ones that got GIs killed in Nam??
There is another “Retro “ out now,,,
Half that price.
Featured on a popular Gun mag last month.
Tempted me ,seriously.
You’re moving in the wrong direction Colt.
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.
“Wonder how long it would take me to field strip that puppy”
I despised trying to put those hand guards back on, in time.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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