Month: May 2020

The Colt AR-15. Performance Is Proof

Mail call today was an old single page advertisement out of ‘American Hunter’ magazine. Unfortunately, I do not know what year it was published. The ad references “18 years ago” so I will dig into it a bit deeper at a later date.

Colt Roll Dies Sold On Ebay

I added a section to the website documenting six Colt roll dies that sold on Ebay on 13 May 2020. Roll dies are not seen on the market too often. You can see a summary of the roll die sale here: https://thecoltar15resource.com/roll-dies/

Shown is an M16A1 roll die that was sold on Ebay 13 May 2020 for $770.00.

There are sub-albums with detailed photos of all six roll dies that were sold.

Vickers Guide AR-15 Volume 1 (2nd Edition) Pre-Order Ending Soon

Vickers Guide AR-15 Volume 1 (2nd Edition) pre-order ends on 31 May 2020. That leaves you thirteen days to save some money. Head over to https://www.vickersguide.com/purchase?category=Book to purchase the new and expanded AR-15 Volume 1 (2nd Edition) that has been expanded to over 600 pages of early AR-15 history.

M16A4 Foreign Military Sales Contract Competition

DOD Contract Notice for April 29, 2020:

“FN America LLC, Columbia, South Carolina (W56HZV-20-D-0024); and Colt’s Manufacturing Co. LLC, West Hartford, Connecticut (W56HZV-20-D-0025), will compete for each order of the $383,311,941 firm-fixed-price contract to provide M16A4 rifles for Foreign Military Sales (Afghanistan, Grenada, Iraq, Lebanon and Nepal). Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 28, 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the contracting activity.”