Today I picked up a great late production colt 604 upper from GottaEat and was pretty excited, so I slapped it on one of my pre-ban lowers with a D stock to make an Air Force clone. Hope you guys like it as much as I do. This is my first slick side. The second picture is it's smaller land based cousin. Sorry the phone pictures suck. Thanks again GottaEat.
Retro goodness
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janklow
Active Member
- Feb 6, 2013
- 880
very neat look.
5.56blaster
Ultimate Member
I carried both of them in the USAF. Had a slick side that was marked Colts AR-15. It was safe-semi-full. I carried another one marked XM-177. It was slick side with a short barrel and long flash hider. Thanks for the flash back!
SCARCQB
Get Opp my rawn, Plick!
Nice, what make of launcher is that?
5.56blaster
Ultimate Member
I carried it (XM 177) for years. Last time I fired one was 2006. Still had them in the inventory. Great gun!
Glad it brought back some good memories.
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- Feb 28, 2013
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clandestine
AR-15 Savant
Nice job
SCARCQB
Get Opp my rawn, Plick!
Cobray launcher from the early 90s.
Awesome.
bkuether
Judge not this race .....
I am working on an A2 build as well. However, I must have the shell deflector as I am left handed. Since I cannot truly get to that retro level you achieved, I will be building a little more modern A2. Rather than just go with black furniture, I will be building mine in green. Should be interesting. Should also save money on parts. Those old M16 parts are somewhat expensive.
bkuether
Judge not this race .....
Oh and also just noticed, the "dog feet" in the picture is a nice touch.... 
BossmanPJ
Ultimate Member
Looks good. The lower color appears to match the Colt grey pretty well.
If you want to do a retro build with the Brunton bump look at the Colt Diameco C7.
BUFF7MM
☠Buff➐㎣☠
I've got to ask, is that black electrical tape on the hand guards in the bottom picture? If so what's it there for?
The tape is holding the cleaning rod sections to the hand guards. You'll also notice that the trigger guard is taped back. This carbine was built to look like a field expedient rifle carried by an RT member in Vietnam. I used the pictures below as inspiration. I found them through a search, but I think if you do an image search it leads back to another forum that I'm not a member of. I think the picture of the hooch girl is credited to one of the team members who carried the carbine.
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Thanks, for the explanation, now I want to build one too.
I need to stop looking at these threads.
