Reeder Custom Guns - I finally ditched my Colt Lightweight Carbine

Mike H.
I finally ditched my Colt Lightweight Carbine
Friday, March 17, 2023, 08:31

plus the 14" M4 upper and A4 20" upper, in part over bolt consumption, but more because I never liked cleaning them in the service and even less so as a civilian. Still wanted a handy light carbine, but only for two and four legged vermin, and ended going to a .22WMR blowback made of all forged and machined steel inside and out. It would be far less brain scrambling indoors with no hearing protection and less dangerous to neighbors. Only critters it has whacked are coyote, turkey, and hog.

I just cannot fathom, a lot of things, but why - WB, 2023-03-16, 08:20
- Why would anyone go to the trouble of building - Gary Reeder, 2023-03-16, 14:06
  - I just bought a 556 MVP Patrol two weeks ago. Been - ChrisG, 2023-03-16, 19:31
  - Well said Gary! (nm) - SPB, 2023-03-16, 16:32
- I really don't get it no matter what the price... - Mike H., 2023-03-16, 08:56
  - Not that I am against either the bolt conversion - Mike H., 2023-03-16, 17:29
    - I can find barrels w/o a gas port in .224 - WB, 2023-03-17, 07:12
      - I finally ditched my Colt Lightweight Carbine - Mike H., 2023-03-17, 08:31
        I like that. They made some funky rigs. - WB, 2023-03-18, 08:36
        That 602 started out as a 375 H&H. We changed the - Gary Reeder, 2023-03-18, 12:11
        The photo of the missus looks like from 1963, - Mike H., 2023-03-18, 14:13
        This one is a marvel in immortal funky. The - Mike H., 2023-03-18, 09:11
        As for reliability, Tom Knapp used one in exhibition, - Mike H., 2023-03-18, 11:13
        What gun is that? (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2023-03-17, 17:24
        It is a Brno alphabet soup 611. This one was - Mike H., 2023-03-18, 07:54