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M16 accessory items
In this folder you'll find pics/descriptions of various items/accessories for the military M16's, slings, bayonets, cleaning gear, attachments, etc. This album will see continuing additions as I acquire new items & take pics of the ones I have!
The items have been seperated & placed into their own albums, ie:, album for bayonets, another for training aids etc.
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Bayonets | This album contains pics/info on US military bayonets for the M16 series along with brief info on a few M7 "variants" that occasionally are offered as US military. The M16 bayonet was originally designed by Colt & appeared to have been based on the US M4 .30cal carbine bayonet of WWII origin. The first bayonet supplied to the US military for the M16 (Colt 601) was very similiar to the well known M7 & was actually the M7's forerunner, these bayonets were provided w/the 601 (& most probably 602) rifles bought by the US military prior to 1964, the grips on most were a fiber type brown material & overpainted green, although there are brown gripped examples around, the grips were not checkered like the M7 but had shallow "rings" & used fixed rivets/plugs rather than screws to attach the grips. The "standard" military M7 appeared to have been a refinement of these early Colt bayonets & were purchased by the military direct from various contractors rather than through Colt. It appears Colt supplied the above described bayonets which were then superceeded by the military production M7's beginning approximately 1964 with M7 production from various contractors supplied at least into the 80's, another US military bayonet for the M16, the M9 began mfg in the late 80's, the M9 supplemented but did not replace the M7 in service. |
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Magazines | 7041 Visits
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Slings | 3439 Visits
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Training aids | Various items/accessories have been developed for the AR15/M16 platform to assist in training, .22 cal conversions, blank firing adaptors & accs, this album shows some of them. |
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