Nice ID! I wonder why someone would bury that? Hopefully you can still get it back from the police...
Probably stolen and buried temporarily till the thief could retrieve it.... and he never did... Perhaps did not know he had taken a prop gun.
Nice ID! I wonder why someone would bury that? Hopefully you can still get it back from the police...
Why have the police involved? I wouldn't have said a word. You found it, it's yours!
From the photo the corrosion looks like zinc.
Probably a non-lethal stage prop.
I wondered why also but not for the same reason. It was obviously a toy to begin with. He is not showing the whole rifle so I am sure there was other things about it that said it was a toy just by looking at it.
Colt made all the original M-16's and then they were made by other companies. Every M-16 I ever shot between 1975 and 1980 were made by Colt. No M-16 had the M-16 stamped into it and none had assault rifle stamped either.
We have to have drama on this site or it would be boring I guess.
I wondered why also but not for the same reason. It was obviously a toy to begin with. He is not showing the whole rifle so I am sure there was other things about it that said it was a toy just by looking at it.
Colt made all the original M-16's and then they were made by other companies. Every M-16 I ever shot between 1975 and 1980 were made by Colt. No M-16 had the M-16 stamped into it and none had assault rifle stamped either.
We have to have drama on this site or it would be boring I guess.
The first 16's that had that style flash hider didn't have a forward assist, but they didn't have that protrusion either, and they did have a shell deflector that is not on what was found.I don't think it was that obvious it was a toy, since it is not a toy. It is a movie-quality replica firearm. From a distance, it looked possibly real to me, and I'm familiar with AR's/M-16's. It looked fishy, but until I saw that protrusion where the forward assist should be I wasn't really sure.
As I posted earlier, there were lowers stamped with M-16 although in a different location.
The first 16's that had that style flash hider didn't have a forward assist, but they didn't have that protrusion either, and they did have a shell deflector that is not on what was found.
There are many things wrong with it that would tip off anyone familiar with real ones. Pin locations for the fire control group are wrong. Roll pins where there should be solid pins. E-clips on the pivot pin. No deflector behind the ejection port. Roll marks are all wrong. Etc.....
From what has been shown (in the pics and the video) the only parts that might even possibly be useable on a real one are the buttstock, grip, maybe some of the handguard hardware, and maybe the flash hider.
Yeeeaahh.....only I'm not. The first AR15's were sent to SE Asia in 1961 by William Godel (not like the '66 video you linked to), and they had three prong flash hiders, no forward assist, Different charging handles, and the deflector was a raised portion of the forging at the rear part of the ejection port (not a bump behind the port like they are now).I'll agree with some of your points, but you're dead wrong on the forward assist/flash hider/shell deflector.
Yeeeaahh.....only I'm not. The first AR15's were sent to SE Asia in 1961 by William Godel (not like the '66 video you linked to), and they had three prong flash hiders, no forward assist, Different charging handles, and the deflector was a raised portion of the forging at the rear part of the ejection port (not a bump behind the port like they are now).
Look up AR15-601 and 602. It wasn't until the 603/604 and the Army's XM16E1 that they had a forward assist ('64). And the Air Force still had M16's with no FA. The A1 ('67) was when they went to a chrome lined chamber and bore, changed from the three prong hider to a birdcage, and a couple other minor mods.
Though not complete, quite a bit of the history can be found on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
*********************************************************Those Japanese replicas can be convincing at first glance.
While in Japan in the late 60's I bought a model of the Colt 1911 pistol. It was the same size and weight as the real thing. All the controls (safeties, magazine release, etc.) worked as well.
Yeeeaahh.....only I'm not. The first AR15's were sent to SE Asia in 1961 by William Godel (not like the '66 video you linked to), and they had three prong flash hiders, no forward assist, Different charging handles, and the deflector was a raised portion of the forging at the rear part of the ejection port (not a bump behind the port like they are now).
Look up AR15-601 and 602. It wasn't until the 603/604 and the Army's XM16E1 that they had a forward assist ('64). And the Air Force still had M16's with no FA. The A1 ('67) was when they went to a chrome lined chamber and bore, changed from the three prong hider to a birdcage, and a couple other minor mods.
Though not complete, quite a bit of the history can be found on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
Good observation. My guess is that it's a late model made for the Air Force prior to the universal implementation of the A2.I'm not insinuating your wrong in any way , but just a question for you here. In that pic you posted , the bolt assembly in that weapon has the ridges cut into it, weren't those ridges for the forward assist feature ? Could that pic be of a non original weapon ?
I want to know of they kept your toy or not?
Crazy find!
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