Armalite also offered it’s AR-180 as an alternative. Additionally gun buyers were more than content to purchase new or surplus M1 Carbines or Bill Ruger’s newly introduced Mini-14 instead. Others were more familiar with the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine and the AR’s appearance turned off many shooters - the rifle was simply too different and ugly to add it to their collection. Yet many still remembered the rifle’s poor initial showing and shunned the AR-15. The markings also indicate the upper was forged for Colt by Kaiser Aluminum. Yet many collectors want the real thing - and will pony up the cash for a genuine example of the original “black” rifle.
Perhaps they already have a tactical carbine? Perhaps simplicity appeals to them? Or perhaps they’re simply driven by nostalgia they find their answer in the past.įor these folks it’s not uncommon to build a replica of an early generation AR-15 out of a variety of new and/or surplus parts. Today we have a dizzying array of “black rifles” to choose from and still, there are shooters who shout (sometimes angrily) that people should “just build their own AR.” This underlines a point - a discerning group of shooters have decided that this current crop of AR rifles simply aren’t for them. Forty-one years later and this Colt is now considered a collector’s piece. Jimmy Carter was elected president and my Colt SP1 AR-15 left the factory in Hartford, Connecticut. The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Red Army at the Spectrum. Apple Computers was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. In 1976 the United States celebrated its bicentennial. “I’m still in a dream, Snake Eater!” (Photo: Francis Borek)
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