Latest retro effort Colt's Model 602, circa 1962

Here is a faux (or "close enough") Colt's Model 602. It has an ugly Kalifornia compliant bullet button and early Colt 20 with aluminum follower block to 20 with a modified block from Colt factory 5/20 magazine because it would be blasphemy to put a Monsterman grip on it!


My faux-602 Parts list:

NDS 601 lower
SP1 Upper with early door
20" CMP Chrome Bore M16A1 barrel (OK to have later barrel, as this is a shooter)
Young Manufacturing Chrome M16 BCG (wish it was slick side, but at least it is chrome, and it is what I have)
Colt charging handle
Colt XM gray slip ring
Colt lower receiver extension (buffer tube) and Colt buffer and spring
Colt SP1 Lower Parts kit (including trigger guard)
HEAT N Beat: Jerrel's good stuff
early 601/602 bolt catch,
dimple selector,
dimpled take down pin,
dimpled 601 pivot pin.
Ratworxs 601 early flash hider
601 grenade spring
Very nice mottled handguards, pistol grip, and Type D stock with 601/602 swivel
Very sucky Kalifornia compliant bullet button UGH!!!!!
Colt 20 round magazines blocked to 10 rounds for Kalifornia
Early cotton fabric M-1 sling
Early Colt (US manufactured, not German) M7 bayonet with Colt M8A1 sheath
Colt bipod with early pouch

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Nice restoration of an early rifle, I did not know Ratworks made any AR-15/M16 parts ?

Early parts have become very difficult to find and there is a large repro market, everything in these photos is original including the steel gas tube and the plastic

That double pouch with waffle magazines gives me a stiffy! I love the brown/green furniture. Wish I had a set of the real stuff. I have painted the black stuff green and love it.. Actually if I didn't have this mottled set, I thought of doing a 601 instead of a 602. Ratworks just makes early three prongs.

In the late 1980s, I had a gorgeous set of original green painted brown 601 furniture and original early three prong FH on an SP1. A "friend" talked me out of them, and never repaid me. There were a lot of Edgewater buffers back then, but nobody wanted them. I had half a dozen, but had to sneak them into builds I sold to get rid of them. My wish list: Triangular charging handle, Edgewater buffer, and waffle magazine.