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Posted: 1/3/2005 9:22:44 PM EDT
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CDNN is very good. No problems with any of my transactions. A Colt bolt and carrier will probably go for up to $150.00, but that's just a guess. Other bolts with carriers will generally be cheaper. Shop around you might get one cheaper. ETA a good deal? You might wanna' shop around for that too. It might be a little high but it's not a bad price. The upper will work just fine with the Cav Arms lower. |
If they really were SP1 uppers, you'd be correct. They are NOT SP1 uppers, and I'm darned if I know why CDNN keeps listing them as such. They are, in fact, M16A1 uppers, and as such have the regular size small front hole, and can be used w/o any mods on any current lower. By all accounts, these are units that were removed from new, unfired, M16A1s, that were being upgraded with A2 type uppers While I didn't get one of these units, I did get one of the stock assys, bolt/carrier assys and charging handles that were part of the original offerings. They were exactly as advertised. You could see that they had been mounted, and you could also see that they had never been used before they were taken off the weapon. 
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No, it is the old "Colt grey" - the pictures above are a little misleading. I mated it to a newer Colt lower and the mismatch in color is very noticeable. There was some buzz here at some time about somebody doing a run of new lowers to match all the "Colt grey" uppes out there, but I haven't seen anything about it lately. Barring that, I'm considering having the whole rifle refinished to match throughout down the road. |
I thought the last CDNN catalog I received had them correctly identified as "M16A1 take-offs," but I could be mistaken (long gone so I can't check). |
The CDNN catalog I got a couple of weeks ago still IDs them as "Colt factory SP1 uppers". There is a note under the pic that says "small hole". I can maybe understand not wanting to ID them as M16A1 pieces, for fear that somebidy might think they were selling machine gun stuff; but if I were doing the ad layout, think I'd simply list them as "Colt AR upper assys". But hey, who asked me anyway? 
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