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By Catfishcraig · Posted
Two Osprey flew over my house when President Trump was campaigning at the Mesa Gateway Airport (formerly Williams Air force base). They nearly shook the windows off my house. Clearly an intimidating aircraft. -
By LE LOUP DES MERS · Posted
Turned out nice, I build a PSA h and r clone. I finally got most of the correct a1 HR parts. Took me almost 2 years to find some of the parts, still need an original barrel and receiver but I don't got $1800 to spend lol. The one thing I hate about colt is the lack of a correct lower. I don't know why colt doesn't mass-produce a1 lower clones. I know they had the reissue but I was no way spending $2500 when they originally came out to get a colt lower. The only way to get a clone correct lower is an 80% lower. Im also thinking about building a colt a1 but not sure if I want to spend the money to get a clone correct lower. I got all the colt parts except an upper and barrel. It's just the lower that will be a pain to get "correct". -
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By LE LOUP DES MERS · Posted
To keep the original post from becoming to long I'll add more in a second reply. This stock came directly from an HR m16a1 demill. The stock has a faint raised 1 marking on the right side. It's not a scratch, as you can hopefully see in the angled picture it's definitely raised. From the research I have done, i do believe this to be a HR stock. I also have the HR demilled lower this stock was originally on. Now back to the question, I need help identifying the rack number. You can clearly see a 2 and 3 but I can't make out the letter or number in front of the 2. It also looks like there might have been a C above the 23 but I can't confirm that. There is for sure some type of letter or number in front of 23. My plan is to repaint the original rack number. I suppose I could leave the rack number as is, but I think it would look nice repainted. Let me know if I need to take better photos of the rack number. -
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By LE LOUP DES MERS · Posted
Well I decided to restore this M16A1 type D buttstock. Turned out pretty good if you ask me, when I first got the stock it was cracked on the inside that crack also ran to the outside. I also replaced the swing swivel/stud, the original swivel stud was in pretty bad shape and the bottom of the swivel stud was actually rusted to the stock. Now I personally didn't restore it, I took it to a professional gun smith to restore. He either glued the cracks or he used epoxy or he did both I can't remember entirely. After fixing the crack he then sanded the glue or epoxy to smooth it out. If you look towards the front you can tell we're he sanded it. I try to show were the crack originally was hopefully it's visible. To replace the sling swivel/stud I bought an original colt one off of Apex gun parts. I had him cerakote the swivel/stud black to match the original look. My plan in the future is to re-rubber coat the swivel like how they were originally. When you buy them off apex the original paint is worn off and they don't have the rubber coating anymore (at least the one I received). To completely restore this stock it costed about $100. Now I personally wouldn't have spend that kind of money if the stock was a colt. I do NOT recommend you spend that money either on a colt. Colts are dime a dozen if you get a bad stock just buy a new one. Now it's a different story for HR and GM, they are a little harder to find. GM stocks are more common than HR but they don't come up that often. -
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