Colts XM177E2 reproduction

[Malysh]

My friend Charlene asked for some pictures of my Colt XM177E2 reproduction so here are some I snapped quickly today during a break from some home repairs. Fun holiday, huh?

As far as the donor rifle - Colt SP-1 lower in the 304,000 serial number range makes it 1974. The large .315 pin upper is hard to find in gray. There are plenty of black ones around. The 11.5 inch barrel is from a Colt Commando sold to the IDF and then re-sold back to a US importer when the original rifles were retired from the IDF. The original upper was an A-2, hence I replaced it for this project. The very nice fake 177E2 moderator was made by Tom Neihmol of Total Silence. It it not of the slip over barrel type, it is correctly mounted to this SBR carbine. Tom also made NFA registered faithful copies of the original moderators. All parts are original Colts including the two position telestock. This gun is ATFE/NFA registered as a short barrel rifle.
It's a heck of a lot of fun to shoot.

Note that the rifle does not have a partial or full fence around the ejection port or the magazine release button as the vast majority of XM177E2s had. I will revisit the post soon to quote the page in Edward Ezell's book The Black Rifle indicating that the US Army War Museum has an XM177E2 example with no fence on an earlier slabside Colt lower. I used that example as the justification for my SP-1 lower. To me it was more important to have the Rampant Pony and Colt's on the left side than for the rifle to have an off brand lower with the expected partial or full fence on the right. If possible I will take a few shots of the War museum example and post them in the thread.

I hope you enjoy the pics.

[charlene]

Thanks Mike, Looks great! ...And gives new meaning to the term "Jungle Carbine"!

[twaits]

That does look really great.

[zb39]

Very Nice.