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Thx excited to bust come caps with it!
Yes, there are photos of the old girls with sliders on them towards the end. I think MP's and engineers were the most common users?
Lol, I'm coming out of the retro world, built all the oldies that make my heart sing, with the exception of a La France M16K clone :)
Which one is the 782?
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I believe the collapsible buttstock as a conversion for A2s and A4s was authorized by the Army in 2011. The kit, which consisted of basically the standard M4 extension and waffle stock, also included an H6 buffer. The H6 buffer weighs somewhere in between an H2 and an H3. I only saw a few in real life, all with A2 handguards. The first was carried by a small statured female Soldier at Ft. Rucker, while the other two I saw in Afghanistan at Bagram's fixed wing terminal, presumably issued to Soldados in support MOSs whose MTOE didn't rate M4s or M4A1s.
I liked the idea so much I built my own clone, replete with an H6 buffer. I'll post some pics later. It really is an improvement for many uses over the A2 stock and makes the old A2s and A4s much more user friendly to shooters among a wide range of statures. If fiscal responsibility really mattered to the DoD, which it doesn't, they could have saved quite a lot simply by issuing such retro-fitted rifles to those in support specialties who were unlikely to find themselves conducting operations that required the regular and rapid unassing of a vehicle or aircraft or the clearing of structures.
As strange as this conversion looks to those who cut their teeth on the A2 or A4, shoulder one and you might change your mind. Of course my feedback only applies to the conversion still using the round handguards, as it likely feels pretty front-heavy with the RAS installed.