My new Colt Model 602 AR-15 build

[imarangemaster]

I had a nice Colt Model 602 build before, but for a variety of really stupid reasons, I sold off everything except the NDS 601 slab-side lower. (actually, it was to build a 300 BLK for a patrol carbine for the high-country security contract I had.) Anyway, the Green stocked 601s and 1st revision black stocked 602 AR-15s are my favorite platforms, so I just had to have another one!.

A short History lesson is that in about 1960-1961, the Army tested the radical new weapon designed by Eugene Stoner's team at the ArmaLite Division of Fairchild Aircraft Corp. The United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration, (ARPA), tested the Model 601 AR-15 in Project AGILE starting in mid-1961 with Army "Advisors" in the Republic of Vietnam. It was wildly successful, though several changes were requested, and embodied in the Model 602 starting in Late 1962 or early 1963. The most visible change was the change from green painted brown composite furniture to furniture molded from black composite. You can find numerous pictures of Advisors and early Navy Seals in the jungle wearing Beau Gam "duck hunter fatigues, toting the early AR-15s and US M2 Carbines.



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