Colt – Page 5 – Scattered Shots

Vintage Colt Demo/Sales Photos

Some really cool photos of some of the demonstrations Colt did to sell weapons. Doing things like throwing them around, burying them, putting them in water, before shooting them. I really wish photos and videos of demos like this were more readily available. So many people forget that military grade weaponry is designed to beContinue reading “Vintage Colt Demo/Sales Photos”

Colt 11.5″ Upper Receiver w/ Colt-Branded Troy Rail Adapter System.

Colt AR6721 DC Upper Receiver Conversion Kit

Colt’s Short Lived . 22 Cadet

It will surprise exactly no one to know I had that same sweatshirt at the time. And the Colt cadet.

Colt Canada C84A4 Concept Carbine

Man, this is pretty nifty. I know nothing about it yet. Be neat to get the details on it soon. C8A4 carbine as the conceptual prototype for the Canadian military’s ‘Canadian Modular Assault Rifle’ program

M16A1 Still In The Jungle Fighting

I ran across these photos of a Hmong fighter in Laos. Still with the M16A1 the US gave him. Still killing commies after all these years. With considerable less finish than it left the factory with. Funny how only the much overrated AK47/Type56 is supposedly the only rifle that could hold up under tropical jungleContinue reading “M16A1 Still In The Jungle Fighting”

Colt R0633DC upper receiver

In this image is a Colt R0633DC upper receiver conversion kit from around late 1998 (based on analysis of packing materials). The Colt model R0933 was a 9mm submachine gun (SMG) design that was provided to the Department Of Energy for security use. The model R0633 is more commonly referred to as the “DOE SMG”Continue reading “Colt R0633DC upper receiver”

Old Article On Colt HBAR

Colt Armalite AR15

Brent found some great pictures of early promotional material on the AR15.

.222 Remington Colt AR15

Did you know Colt made a few variants of the AR15 in the .222 Remington round? Mainly export models usually to get around odd laws about “military calibers” There are versions in the SP1 configuration, the SPII versions with a mix of A1 and A2 parts and in rifles that are more or less “A2″s.Continue reading “.222 Remington Colt AR15”