What's wrong with Olympic Arms???

[Bill Hollinger]

Another great range day today. Here is the skinny on this rifle.

Olympic Arms
Model CAR-AR SUM
20" Olympic Arms Super Ultra Match stainless barrel
Custom made free float barrel shroud and stock hand guards
Custom made Match rear sight
Custom made front sight post ground to a wedge
There is nothing special about the lower receiver. No trigger work other that one leg of the hammer spring being cut off.
Lead added to the butt stock for weight and balance.
Overall weight of this AR is about 16 pounds.
Some may say that so much has been altered that it is no longer Olympic Arms but all the major parts are Oly.

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Barrel is free floating, note the gap between the gas block and sling swivel mount. Also, the allen head set screws used to adjust the gas block for sight alignment.
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Barrel shroud made from steel tubing and silver soldered at the swivel end and barrel nut end.
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Front sight ground.
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Custom made barrel shroud and barrel nut set up.
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Top of the barrel shroud where the gas tube passes through.
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Rear sight was machined down and a sleeve fitted to re-thread the post for elevation as well as the windage adjustment.
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Notice on the underside of the rear sight and the sleeve used to re-thread to a finer thread to get 1/4" clicks of elevation.
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Lead wedge in the butt stock to increase weight for better balance.
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Today's target shot from a bench at 100 yards, no sand bags or sighting rests. I knew when I threw the two fliers!
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All the work done on the AR was done by me with the help of the instructors at Lassen College about eight years ago.

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