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Posted: 7/10/2016 6:50:51 PM EDT
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Can anyone help ID the year of manufacture, tell me if it was a pre-ban lower, and if these were ever offered with a thin barrel upper?
COLT Sporter Target serial # 017123 Thanks fellas for any assistance, my google search was weak. |
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Can anyone help ID the year of manufacture, tell me if it was a pre-ban lower, and if these were ever offered with a thin barrel upper? COLT Sporter Target serial # 017123 Thanks fellas for any assistance, my google search was weak. I'm assuming it starts with "ST"? If so, definitely pre-ban (1994). Link Cheers 
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Can anyone help ID the year of manufacture, tell me if it was a pre-ban lower, and if these were ever offered with a thin barrel upper? COLT Sporter Target serial # 017123 Thanks fellas for any assistance, my google search was weak. The Colt Sporter Target rifles (6551) came from the factory with a government profile barrel (without a bayonet lug.) 
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As the picture shows the barrel will be thin under the handguards and thick front the front sight forward if it's an A2 Gov't price, .75" at the sight block with a small step down just in front. It would also be marked C MP 5.56 NATO 1/7 on top the barrel between the front sight and the flash suppressor. Mine also has HBAR just after the 1/7 so there may be something else but I don't think the Gov't profiled barrels had more there.
Colt did use up as many old parts as it could so there is the possibility it's wearing an old 1/12 A1 profile skinny barrel and still be a factory build. This was a confusing, transitional time frame for Colt. More details, or better yet, pics would really help. |
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