Does anyone have any experience with these? Do they field strip like a real AR?
I’ve been looking for a Vietnam era M16 which field strips, has real weight, and can hopefully take real AR mags. Marushin’s looks to be the best.
What is the most realistic Vietnam M16?
If you look closely on the pics you can see that where the forward assist would normally be there's a screw, that screw holds the lower and upper receiver together, thus it won't make for a very realistic field strip.
The Marushin i own (XM) is quite accurate, the bolt carrier and bolt is what differs the most in my opinion. And of course there isn't any gas tube.
If you wanted a model M16 as close as is possible without breaking a Law somewhere you'd need to look for a Hobby Fix model. Extremely rare, very very few were ever made I believe but as beautiful as they are, prices run into the thousands of US Dollars.
_________________ Cerwyn
Hobby collector of Replica model guns and Militaria. also member of Living History Reenactment Groups.
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Subject: Re: Best Vietnam M16? Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:44 pm
I thought the real M16 receivers are made from aluminium
As for my preference I love the Marushin M16A1 some of the parts don't fit when building the kits and they can be a pain to get firing well but for looks/feel they are fantastic
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Subject: Re: Best Vietnam M16? Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:34 pm
8ace wrote:
I thought the real M16 receivers are made from aluminium
As for my preference I love the Marushin M16A1 some of the parts don't fit when building the kits and they can be a pain to get firing well but for looks/feel they are fantastic
Subject: Best Vietnam M16? 
Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:19 pm
some of the parts don't fit when building the kits and they can be a pain to get firing well 
but for looks/feel they are fantastic
