I'll find one one day, and I'm buying the next one I find for sale. Re: Questions about Colt AR15 A3 Tactical carbine It looks like the serial numbers below 134 were pre-ban rifles from the Clinton AWB.I'm still searching for a Coltguard nickel SP1, only one I find is the one on Gunbroker that the nickel is flaking off the magwell. Colt AR-15 Serial Number List Biggerhammer SIG AMT/PE57/550 Stoner SR-25 Barrett. I've been looking for a nice, early rifle such as this, and I even have the early Colt carry handle scope already for one.

I see you posted over in the 'retro' forum, and the rules there prohibit them from discussing values, but some of those guys are ate up with the retro BRD, and will get into bidding wars over things as simple as a dimped takedown pin, and are prone to paying $600+ for original 601 green handguards or stock Most of them keep getting relisted at the same insane prices. I didn't see any bids over $1200 on SP1's over on gunbroker. Prices of the 'Retro' style AR's are starting to come down just like the rest of everything AR related now. I agree it is a nice specimen, but there appears to be some honest wear on the lower, in the front of the magwell, and also there appears to be some cracks on the right side handguard on the top, which is normal for the triangle handguards. There is really no way of knowing for sure what it came from the factory with, unless it is NIB. The hard part about telling if it is original, is that there is an SP1 database over on ARFcom that shows serial numbers above and below this one with 'duckbill' flash hiders, whereas this is a 3-prong. With only a week left on his sentence and the help of his girlfriend, Jane ( Barbara Hershey), he escapes to Canada, making both of them wanted fugitives.Its not an early charging handle, as I can see its not a triangle shape. Contentsĭisenchanted college student William Popper ( Michael Sarrazin) is convicted of vehicular manslaughter for killing a woman with his car. The screenplay was written by Jon Boothe and George L. The producer was David Susskind and the associate producer Alan Shayne. The film was directed by Robert Mulligan.

According to a Colt letter of provenance included in the excellent Vickers Guide: AR-15 Volume 1 (2 nd ed.), the first SP1 rifle was produced in May 1964. The Pursuit of Happiness is a 1971 American drama film about a student who goes on the run to avoid serving his full prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter. The serial number was identified through a local source and the weapon dated to 1965 via Colt’s online serial number database.

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