Today we celebrate the life of Samuel Colt. His life and the ongoing history of Colts Manufacturing Company LLC has inspired so many of us. Not only did the legacy of Colt firearms influence firearms design and manufacturing, it has given us the inspiration to appreciate, collect, fire and study the history of Colt firearms. 🇺🇸
The three images in this post are scans from documents in a 1999 Colt press kit that I have. The ‘Compensated Match Target’ rifle shown is the only Colt AR design with an advertising sheet in the press kit. The first two images are the front/back of that advertising sheet.
For historical price reference, the third image is a scan of the AR section of the Colt price guide for 1999. As you can see prices from 1999 to now have remained almost unchanged.
There were two models in the ‘Compensated Match Target’ product line. They were the MT6601C Match Target HBAR (1/7 rifling) and the MT6700C Match Target Competition HBAR (1/9 rifling).
I have added 12 images here of the Colt 2022 Commercial Products catalog that was handed out at the NRA convention in Houston, Texas this year.
You can see all of the Colt 2022 commercial product catalog at this link: thecoltar15resource.com/colt-2022-commercial-products/
A generous member sent me this current Colt 2022 International Military & Law Enforcement catalog that he picked up at a european arms show.
In this post there is an image of the front cover (above), table of contents (below) and the rear cover (bottom of post).
I am out of time for tonight but will post more images from the catalog soon.
It was brought to my attention today the a few websites are showing the pending release of the new Colt CM5 Sentry carbine.
There is not a release date yet.
The CM5 Sentry is shown on the RSR Group distributor website.
Here is the CM5 Sentry shown on the Classic Firearms website.
I have added a section to the website for the Colt Walther .22LR Tactical Rimfire series of firearms.
I added a page that discusses the Colt Walther M16 SPR in some detail. This is a rifle that is in my collection but is currently being sold.
Here is the link to the M16 SPR page.
Arms Unlimited has a small quantity (about 49 as of 27 MAY 2022) of the elusive Colt LE6920-FBP2 carbines. These carbines are equipped per FBI contract specification with a Geissele rail and Magpul Pro back-up iron sights just to name a couple of the features. There have only been two or three hundred (rough guestimate based on observed quantities released) of these made available to the market to date.
Here are some photos of my Colt LE6920-FBP2 for anyone not familiar with the carbine.
The FBP2 carbine is one of my top three favorite rifle/carbines along with the 6920-EPR and the AR-15A4.
You can get yours here at this link: https://www.armsunlimited.com/Colt-M4-Carbine-Federal-Patrol-Rifle-p/le6920-fbp2.htm?CartID=1
Arms Unlimited has the Colt AR6951 9mm Carbine in stock for $1,099.
https://www.armsunlimited.com/Colt-9mm-Semi-Auto-16-Carbine-p/ar6951.htm?CartID=1
With no official product information coming from Colt about their AR-15 product line (I always wished there was a quarterly newsletter or something that discussed available products, production changes, etc) I periodically go to their website and look around to see if there is any tidbits of information to find. For the last couple of years, there had been very few changes to their website.
I did some looking around the website this weekend. A change that I saw was the deletion of products from their ‘AR-15 Military Classics’ line. Previously listed was the CRM16A1, CRXM177E2 and the LE6920SOCOM. Now, all that is listed on the Colt.com website is the LE6920SOCOM.
In 2020 and 2021 we saw the release of the CRXM16E1 and the CRGAU5AA but the products never made it to the Colt website.
I have heard rumor of potential future ‘AR-15 Military Classics’ products. It will be interesting to see if they make it to market.
The Colt AR-15 Resource 