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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11096
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A friend brought this over today for me to check out I’m having a hard time IDing all the parts. The lower is a plum crazy polymer lower with an accu group FCG. Commercial buffer tube with a no name stock that’s too tight The upper is an A1. Anchor Harvey forge mark but the finish is crap. Barrel has these marks: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:56 pm |
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leadcounsel
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Location: Can't say Joined: Sun Sep 7, 2014 Posts: 8134
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That's an AR15 upper chambered in 5.56mm. It has a 1 in 9 inches twist. You can tell by the stamps. But seriously, it's a Bushmaster. The MP is for magnaflux or magnetic proofing or partical testing or IOW some form of proof testing.
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Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:05 pm |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11096
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I assumed Bushmaster, but you know what happens when you ASSuME
Brownells has done some retro stuff too so that was going to be my other guess
Any thoughts on whether this was a complete bushmaster upper or a piece together?
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Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:36 pm |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11096
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Better pic of just the upper Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:49 pm |
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NWRed
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Location: Puyallup for now Joined: Tue May 24, 2011 Posts: 2100
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16" barrel with an oversleeved fake 5.5" hider or a perm attached actual 5.5" hider on a 11.5" barrel?
If its perm attached, my personal guess is that its a factory assembled BM upper from the late 80s early 90s , hard to reconfigure those with the perm attached flash hider. The upper receiver looks beat up enough that I doubt its a recent production retro upper receiver.
ETA: just saw it had a M203 cut handguard retainer, so who knows ??? Its been taken apart at some point and had the retainer replaced if it was an old BM factory upper, so no telling if its original.
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Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:00 pm |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11096
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It’s an actual 16” barrel
The fake moderator comp covers the barrel but you can see the end of the barrel inside the end of the comp
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Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:56 pm |
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Traut
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Location: Downtown Newcastle Joined: Sat Mar 5, 2016 Posts: 3448
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Clean it. Lube it. Shoot it. Words to live by .
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Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:31 am |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11096
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He wants to swap out the upper for a flattop
I was trying to decide if it would be better to sell this upper complete or just swap the receiver and sell the A1
I'm a little worried about the plum crazy lower holding up
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Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:30 am |
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ViniVidivici
Location: Puyallup Joined: Tue Sep 18, 2018 Posts: 3075
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I would be too.
Polymer lowers for pistols have really caught on over the last 30 years. Polymer lowers for rifles have not. There's a reason.
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Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:17 am |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11096
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My advice was to make it a .22
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Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:26 am |
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