Love for the carry handle

dbarale said:
That’s not a “factory” H&R XM177 clone is it? The barrel looks shorter.
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No, it's not a factory built rifle but is a XM177E1 clone. The E1 had a 10" barrel, and they went to 11.5" for the E2. The upper came from H&R as a complete assembly and the rest of it was put together around a partial fence H&R Commando lower.

I originally planned on a XM177E2, but when H&R came out with the E1 uppers I pivoted toward that. These pics were part of my inspiration.

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Jim C. said:
No, it's not a factory built rifle but is a XM177E1 clone. The E1 had a 10" barrel, and they went to 11.5" for the E2. The upper came from H&R as a complete assembly and the rest of it was put together around a partial fence H&R Commando lower.

I originally planned on a XM177E2, but when H&R came out with the E1 uppers I pivoted toward that. These pics were part of my inspiration.

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Nice! It looks fantastic.
 
crazysarge16 said:
What’s the story? I’ve not heard it and am stuck in an early 90s-early 2000s era AR read everything I can
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DELTA had money, more or less, there's an article in one of Guns & Ammo's Book of the AR15, that covers it.
I'll see if I can find it and then find it online to post a link.
 
USMC6094 said:
The tribute to Israeli simplicity
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Started life as a Bushmaster Patrolmans Carbine. Gave it a used A1 pistol grip, CAR type stock, and Meprolite M21.
Shoots like a house on fire..
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How do you like the Meprolite M21?
I keep thinking I want one.
 
My personal preference is the A2, mainly cause that’s my first love when I think of an AR

If I can’t have that, I want a C7

I’ve got several flat tops, but they are mostly styled after what I carried while I was in or saw others carrying
 
Got bored today in my garage and started setting up a chest rig to use with my carry handle rifle

Started life as a Chicom Type 56, then got modified into what you see today

Will probably swap out the one AR mag pouch on the left side to a classic Molle style just cauS it’s attached my Alice clips currently and doesn’t really support the weight

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ronn47 said:
How do you like the Meprolite M21?
I keep thinking I want one.
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Once you get past how simple the zeroing procedure is, and take my advice, follow the procedure in the book, otherwise you're going to chasing your hits, and you'll never get it zeroed.
And I know from experience
Anyway, once it's set, you're good from near point blank to over 250 meters. And as it's Israeli, it's made for stacking bodies......
This was fired at fifty yards, supported standing
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crazysarge16 said:
My personal preference is the A2, mainly cause that’s my first love when I think of an AR

If I can’t have that, I want a C7

I’ve got several flat tops, but they are mostly styled after what I carried while I was in or saw others carrying
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One of these days I plan getting into the weeds with the different variants of AR's, I even bought the giant Vickers/Ruply book (vol. 1). I have a bunch, set up to my liking, and a bunch of pre-bans including my favorites, SP1's.

But I don't know the difference between an A2 and a C7.
 
Dan0311 said:
One of these days I plan getting into the weeds with the different variants of AR's, I even bought the giant Vickers/Ruply book (vol. 1). I have a bunch, set up to my liking, and a bunch of pre-bans including my favorites, SP1's.

But I don't know the difference between an A2 and a C7.
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Here ya go........
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A1 rear sight, forward assist, and A2 style brass deflector.
A2
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A2 rear sight, FA, brass deflector.
 
USMC6094 said:
Here ya go........
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A1 rear sight, forward assist, and A2 style brass deflector.
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A2 rear sight, FA, brass deflector.
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Were A2's full-auto or 3-round burst? (before getting an M40A1, I had an A2/203 w/ burst)

Seems the C7 and A2 were the same except the C7's have the older rear sight? Were the C7's semi-auto only?
 
Here's a few more of my Colt-made 'carry handles'.....

Factory Colt.

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Older (transition) factory Colt HBAR, notice no fencing on the lower.

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Colt standard HBAR, Colt 4x

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Colt Gov't Carbine (mag still has pre-MagPul mag pulls, lol)

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Colt SP1's

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Dan0311 said:
Were A2's full-auto or 3-round burst? (before getting an M40A1, I had an A2/203 w/ burst)

Seems the C7 and A2 were the same except the C7's have the older rear sight? Were the C7's semi-auto only?
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A2s are burst only, to my knowledge the C7 was full auto. But I could be incorrect...
 
USMC6094 said:
Its an Aimpoint mount I found on GB.
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Thanks. I'm hoping with the huge chevron front sight post I can shoot the thing with irons, but my eyes are pretty awful these days so I may have to do something like that.
 
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