Model 601

[GUTS]

Here is a 601 clone I put together, the barrel is not marked correctly and the front sight tower is also not early enough. The charging handle and the lower are NDS. The furniture and most of the small parts including the BC group are original Model 601 parts. The first 100 or so delivered to the Air Force were all brown like this one. After that the next 9000 or so had brown furniture with green paint(there were a few know examples that had black paint over the brown fiberglass), and after that the furniture was the black we all know so well. I posted this on another forum recently so some of you may have seen it.








It has an Edgewater buffer and an original no-wrench flats buffer tube with no drain hole screw.

The chrome BC

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[Tom in N.J.]

SUPER JOB!!... I just started to get the "retro" bug.... using the real parts is unfair to us who never get to see the real thing!....

[browningautorifle]

Most exellent, did you say the bolt group was an original? I used to have a set of fibrite brown furniture that had been painted green then black. I left it in the care of a friend who turned out not to be much of a friend. I knew eventually it would be worth money.

[RCS]

Excellent job on your restoration of the Model 601, some of the early parts are difficult or impossible to locate. Photo shows an early front sight "flat" base - only one that I ever
found as a part ! The early three digit Colt SP1's had the flat front sight base too. Attachment 17312

[Bob Womack]

Very nice!

[jmoore]

Thanks for sharing! It seems those early parts are pretty impossible to find if you're looking for them. I only seem to stumble on such stuff when looking for something completely different, like 1866 trapdoor parts...

[Midmichigun]

Sir,
I am developing a keen interest in the early AR's/ M16's... I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few questions... later on.
You did a real nice job there! Thanks for sharing!

[A square 10]

some are fortunate enough to hold history as its made , the rest of us strive to hold it in memorium , you have an extra special bit of that , it would be fun to have one but i fear ill never accumulate the required bits , thanks for sharing it