Retro XM177E2/CAR15 Finished!!

[cda97]

Great looking carbine, the upper and lower colors do match well.

[imarangemaster]

Things happen. The XM177E2 build is for sale, still unfired with comic book manual and other manual. It is a good build. Contact me by email off-list. Ammo an mags available.

[campperrykid]

There is a retro forum on M4carbine.net , as well.
FWIW:
M4carbine has a high density of pros in their various fields. That equals less fluff and rumor than arfcom.
YMMV.

[anna2000]

It's actually a commercial stock that I painted with Krylon Fusion gloss black. Original Colt aluminum stocks are not easy to come buy and demand a premium price. The lower is a Nodak Spud XM partial fence.

[imarangemaster]

I was browsing AR15.com's resource library online and confirmed my stock on my retro XM177 project is actually is a 1980s vintage Colt OEM Fiberite CAR-15 or LEO Carbine stock: Milspec tube diameter and "N" manufacturing code on the web under the latch.

Love the internet! I had gotten the stock only (no tube) awhile ago on EBAY for $10 and threw it in the safe for the "one piece at a time" project (which I just finished). I suspected it was Colt, though, because of the quality of the material. You can tell it is not plastic, but some resin-polymer mix. I love this little carbine better all the time. Only thing that could be better is a Colt OEM rubber coated aluminum one!

[jmoore]

So you didn't have to sell it after all? Sounds like good news!

[Roscoe Snyder]

About 30 round magazines during the Vietnam War... I had some for my AR-180 (AR-15's got real hard to find about then) in those days as a college boy '67-'71, and it puzzled me why the men fighting in Vietnam did not have them.

Were these the steel 30 round mags they used to advertise in the back of Guns & Ammo and The American Rifleman? The ones that were supposed to fit either M16 or AR-18?

[RCS]

Attachment 16540Attachment 16541

Sterling manufacture for AR-18/0 or AR-15/M16 in 20, 30 and 40 round, the 30 round in the brown wrap is sterile - all were steel, some were parkerized and others were a blue-black

[Roscoe Snyder]

That looks like what I used to see advertised. Thirty rounds, blank floorplate. They would not fit in an AR-15 mag well, either.

[RCS]

The thirty round magazine with the brown envelope also has the AR-18 magazine slot on the other side, it was made to fit either the AR-18/0 or AR-15. Some AR-18/0 magazines will only fit these rifles and not the Colt AR-15. The early Colt magazines only fit these rifles and not the AR-18/0 rifles. The magazines can be modifiedAttachment 16646

The early waffle magazines only fit the AR-15/M16