This was my first centerfire rifle -- bought from a fellow Corpsman back in 1980 for $300. Bagged my first hog with it. Proved to be an ideal rifle for the hot & muggy Florida environment.
I like the old M16A1.
You won’t see any nostalgia for the M1 Garand though, I like my thumb uninjured.
I think my early 1970s Colt SP1 is better. It doesn’t have the Forward Assist. And I bet mine cost me a hell of a lot less than this thing will go for.
BTW, anybody here know what the little holes are for on the rear and front sight dials ? I do.
Carried the M16 for many years in the Army. Three prong flash suppressor to the bird cage then on to the Heavy Barrel.
Wonder how long it would take me to field strip that puppy. I can see myself back at Fort Knox back in 1985 assembling and reassembling it over, and over, and over...
The old handguards are crap & too flimsy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That’s a real nice hate dispenser.