M14 Forum

Sweets · September 21st, 2011, 01:43 PM

Got in an argument over this but can't turn up a final answer- my memory is that at least some of the original M16s issued were green (olive drab) in color as opposed to black, possibly green while still designated as AR15s. Am I crazy or is my friend misinformed as usual?

{Oops,, this came out in wrong forum I guess, but don't know how to change it...

sac troop · September 21st, 2011, 01:51 PM

Actually the originals where brown. Then the Brown furniture was painted green. Eventually black.

Sweets · September 22nd, 2011, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by sac troop

Actually the originals where brown. Then the Brown furniture was painted green. Eventually black.

Thanks! I should have bet money.

Nomad · September 24th, 2011, 01:16 PM

Have a M-16 with a six digit serial number three prong flash hider #184XXX in issued
to the Army in 1964-1965.
This still shoots well and belongs our dept all the furniture is black and the same that was issued in 1968......I was drafted then....

Log · September 27th, 2011, 07:52 AM

www.retroblackrifle.com

bd111 · September 27th, 2011, 08:34 AM

I can remember green Colt AR15 SP1's. Haven't seen one in ages.

M1G · November 23rd, 2011, 08:28 PM

Heres a pic of a green early stock

M1A's r BEST · November 24th, 2011, 04:23 AM

The M16A1 I was issued in basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC was stamped GM Hydramatic Division on the lower receiver (left side of the mag. well) and was greenish in color (the metal parts) vs. the darker gray/black parkerizing on some of the other M16's. It also still had the 3 prong flash suppressor. This was in 1975.

BigEd63 · November 29th, 2011, 10:28 AM

I know that some parkerized finishes can take on a different color due to exposure to various solvents and lubricants.

I've also seen normally black fiberglass handguards on older rifles take on a grey/green cast to them from exposure to sunlight.

I fired an FN built IDF FAL at a MG shoot that had handguards like that.

M1G · November 29th, 2011, 01:22 PM

Heres whats left of a odd color lower