M16a1 "rubber duck"

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I stumbled across this at a local fun show. Standard weight traning rifle with H&R markings.
Watch out for the retro AR bug. It bights hard.

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[Brian Dick]

I remember those. Heavier than the real thing or so I thought at the time. Especially when doing the survival swim test!!

[Snowman1510]

Oh the times of yelling bang bang bang in the woods on FTX

[breakeyp]

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Rubber ducks from left to right:

Colt carbine AR15 XM177E2 cast at Fort Knox
bayonet for M16
Colt rifle AR15 XM16E1 cast at Fort Benning Ga.
AK47 North Korean markings
bayonet for M16 mkd. TAD-66
Springfield M1 rifle
Winchester M14
M14 made of cast aluminum and steel barrel for Marine Corps "wet" training

Missing and lost somewhere in gun room is a M1911 .45 auto "duck."

I have seen M60s but I have never seen an M1 carbine or
Thompson.

[browningautorifle]

Rubber ducks from left to right

Very nice group. The only M1 carbines I've seen are the resin guns for movies. M60s too...

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Now you have me curious. I will weigh and see how it compares.

[browningautorifle]

We still ahve those but of course the new pattern. They're accountable as "B" class because they used a real rifle barrel in them. They all shared the same serial number and markings.

[imarangemaster]

I really want a rubber duck some day. A guy on the AR15.com retro forum got one with an early 601 1/14 twist with a cast front sight base. He left the rubber ducky intact, as I believer they just use barrel stubs.

[imntxs554]

I really want a rubber duck some day. A guy on the AR15.com retro forum got one with an early 601 1/14 twist with a cast front sight base. He left the rubber ducky intact, as I believer they just use barrel stubs.

Bernie...Here you go... http://www.gunbroker.com/item/562811978

[Brian Dick]

I always thought the Canadians were smart using the rubber C1 and C7 rifles in "pay jump" airborne ops. When I was a young Armorer in the 325 PIR, it used to aggravate the crap out of me that we used our issue weapons to make "pay jumps" where all we did was rig, fly, exit the bird, land and get on the cattle truck back to Fort Livingroom. It never failed to beat the crap out of them or worse, (bent barrels on the A1 were common), break the old M203 Grenade launchers loose, etc, etc. We had a heck of a time just keeping the weapons up to snuff as most of ours were pretty tired 10 years after the Vietnam conflict. Training ops where we went to the field for days were a different scenario but you get my drift.