Sniping With The M16A1 Rifle

Our friends at ‘Loose Rounds’ posted an interesting writeup on sniping that was conducted with the M16A1 during the Vietnam War time period. Check it out at this link : http://looserounds.com/2019/07/11/sniping-with-the-m16a1/

Image from the Loose Rounds article showing an M16A1 with a 3x or 4x optic

Colt Mexico Government Return Rifles

I have added a section for Colt rifles that were returned to Colt by the Mexico government. These rifles were released for sale onto the civilian AR-15 market here in the United States. I will be publishing historical information and photographs in this section in the coming days. https://thecoltar15resource.com/mexico-government-return-rifles/

Colt LE6920M (Mexico) that was purchased in 2017

Colt Monthly AR-15 Rifle and Upper Receiver Assembly Tracker

I added a section to the website where I will post a bi-weekly or monthly review of the AR-15 rifles and upper receiver assemblies that are listed at http://www.colt.com and http://www.brownells.com. Over time, this will give a collector an idea as to when an product enters and exits the retail market since catalogs don’t seem to be produced anymore. You can see our first analysis/listing here: https://thecoltar15resource.com/2019-2/

Colt Bayonet Section Added To Website

Today I added a section to the website for Colt AR-15/M-16 bayonet images and information. The first bayonet data added is on W. German manufactured bayonet produced by Eickhorn for Colt. You can see all ten images here: https://thecoltar15resource.com/eickhorn-w-germany-manufactured/

Bogus Colt Product Sold by CDNN

The primary goal of my social media and internet posts are to educate the aspiring collector on Colt AR items. I am exceptionally new in the Colt AR collecting realm myself and many people have forgot more than I currently know. However, here is one of those posts that has value in clearing the air on a questionable product being erroneously advertised as Colt.

Back in February I saw a product advertised by CDNN Sports that was advertised as a Rodgers Tri-Rail mount with Colt insulated hand guards for nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Although I had never seen Colt release hand guards in this configuration, I figured for nine bucks it was worth getting the set of hand guards even if the rest was useless. So, I ordered a set.

Unfortunately, my military duties kept me buried in work from March through June and I am just now getting to looking closely at this. After talking with other collectors here (Thank you Alex and Joe) it has been verified that although this ‘Tri-Rail’ set is advertised as Colt, there is zero Colt content. The hand guards have been verified as Smith & Wesson products. I have attached a copy of the invoice showing them advertising the product as Colt hand guards.

So, unless you want S&W hand guards, let my curiosity be your lesson to not waste your money.

The hand guards have been identified as Smith & Wesson products from their M&P rifle. They are not Colt hand guards.
The hand guards have been identified as Smith & Wesson products from their M&P rifle. They are not Colt hand guards.

1987 New Product Press Release from 1987.

Two images were added of a 1987 New Product Press Release. You can see both pages here: https://thecoltar15resource.com/1987-new-product-press-release/

This is the front page of the single sheet, two-sided press release