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[#1]
I'll be in my bunk.
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Familiarity and prolonged exposure without incident leads to a loss of appreciation of risk.
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[#2]
Very nice!
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[#3]
Improper rear sight drum detent. So it’s a pretty close clone
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[#4]
I love clone builds. Very nice OP.
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Official ARFCOM nickname, The Germ!
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Originally Posted By sirbordsalot311: Improper rear sight drum detent. So it’s a pretty close clone View Quote Hahaha. I don’t need any more help, I think I leveled up enough on the spectrum already. It is really buggy me already that it’s not a Colt upper, I’ve even though about cutting down a 20” A2 barrel as that’s what was used. |
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[#6]
Nice brew
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[#7]
Cool! Looks good. Is the B Square mount known to be the correct one? Or might they have used the Aimpoint version?
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Who wants to be my friend?
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Originally Posted By blackscribe: Cool! Looks good. Is the B Square mount known to be the correct one? Or might they have used the Aimpoint version? View Quote From what I’ve been able to find online the B Square is the correct mount. I’ve not had any luck finding one either. The mount I have seems like its a close copy of the ARMS #2 mount, I have the picatinny version. |
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[#10]
You still gotta paint it.
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Safety First. Unless it gets in the way of fun. Then safety second.
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The most entertaining outcome is the most likely
UT, USA
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[#14]
Thanks for the comparison pictures. I’ve been tempted several times to switch it over to a Gordon build, but decided I want to do a historically accurate clone of one someday instead.
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[#15]
Which A2 upper are you using? I've got a grey colt A2 upper thats sitting in a drawer because I don't have any grey lowers and the contrast drives me nuts.
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I’m honestly not sure who made my upper. It came off of a pawnshop 20” Hbar A2. The lower was bushmaster, but there’s no marks on either the upper or barrel besides 5.56. Even the rear sight drum isn’t marked 8/3.
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[#17]
Originally Posted By reccerecon: I’m honestly not sure who made my upper. It came off of a pawnshop 20” Hbar A2. The lower was bushmaster, but there’s no marks on either the upper or barrel besides 5.56. Even the rear sight drum isn’t marked 8/3. View Quote Pm if you don't want to clog up your post, but is it A2 feed ramps or m4? |
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[#18]
Mugabe was a economic genius, he turned every citizen of Zimbabwe into a trillionaire overnight.
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Got your pm and replied.
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Looks good to me… funny thing is… I just bought this movie tonight because I couldn’t find it streaming for free anywhere.
Kinda weird seeing this pop up. |
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[#23]
Nice work. I've been assembling parts for my own build for about 3 years. Been having a tough time finding a 30mm Aimpoint vertical split ring mount. That's the last piece I need, minus a more accurate lower.
10.5" for the barrel is probably too long. In the movie screencaps, it looks like the muzzle device is closer to the FSB, so 10.3" might be more accurate. There's also a difference of opinion between 0.625" and 0.75" journals, since it looks fatter past the FSB, but the movie gun was able to clamp the light mount more than possible on a 0.75" journal. One theory I have is that they used a 0.75" journaled barrel, which makes sense for an export M16A2, and they turned down the spot between the legs of the FSB to be able to fit the clamping mount. I could be wrong, but I've read the stock was a commercial polymer unit from Bushmaster, but I can't find the source material. Do you know for certain it was aluminum? In the Reload article, the hero rifle stock does have mold marks like a polymer stock, but it could have been swapped out. I wish someone made a muzzle device without wrench flats like in the movie |
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Originally Posted By _LandCruiser_: Nice work. I've been assembling parts for my own build for about 3 years. Been having a tough time finding a 30mm Aimpoint vertical split ring mount. That's the last piece I need, minus a more accurate lower. 10.5" for the barrel is probably too long. In the movie screencaps, it looks like the muzzle device is closer to the FSB, so 10.3" might be more accurate. There's also a difference of opinion between 0.625" and 0.75" journals, since it looks fatter past the FSB, but the movie gun was able to clamp the light mount more than possible on a 0.75" journal. One theory I have is that they used a 0.75" journaled barrel, which makes sense for an export M16A2, and they turned down the spot between the legs of the FSB to be able to fit the clamping mount. I could be wrong, but I've read the stock was a commercial polymer unit from Bushmaster, but I can't find the source material. Do you know for certain it was aluminum? In the Reload article, the hero rifle stock does have mold marks like a polymer stock, but it could have been swapped out. I wish someone made a muzzle device without wrench flats like in the movie View Quote Thank you. I’ve seen pictures of your build and it is an amazing piece of work. I bought my ring from a member here awhile ago and it was probably the easiest to find part at the time. I had my barrel to be cut at 10 3/8”, I guess I fat fingered the 5 lol. I originally tried a .75” barrel and what lead me to use the .625” was the Surefire M14 clamp wouldn’t fit under the gas tube on the .75”, a cheap thin Amazon clamp would however . That and it didn’t look right next to the muzzle device wrench flats. I don’t have access to an A2 barrel to measure the diameter where it would have been cut. I also read about bushmaster stocks being used, but I don’t remember it saying polymer, that’s interesting. I went with aluminum based off of the stock profile, but I also have a 90s polymer CAR stock that I believe was molded from an aluminum stock. The movie gun could very well have used polymer, I’m going to have to look more into this. The muzzle device used has been driving me nuts trying to identify. I’m thinking it might have been a modified slip over type with the grenade ring and flash ports cut off, but I have no way to be sure. |
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I wonder what is the backstory on how and why that barrel and handguard came to be. If it was originally an A2 rifle barrel it would essentially be like an Israeli Menusar barrel, just cut down to a shorter length.
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[#26]
Originally Posted By Gamma762: I wonder what is the backstory on how and why that barrel and handguard came to be. If it was originally an A2 rifle barrel it would essentially be like an Israeli Menusar barrel, just cut down to a shorter length. View Quote It doesn’t make sense to me either how it would be cheaper or easier to go through all the extra work to make carbines rather than swapping barrels and handguards. Maybe they charged by the hour lol. |
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