I think I’ve been living under a rock, as I just found out about this. Colt is offering a 14.5" pinned and welded SOCOM barreled LE6920 from the factory. It’s nothing fancy, as it comes with a standard M4 handguard, and a Magpul rear sight, but I’m excited you can buy a factory SOCOM barreled Colt again. I think it’s a much better deal than the FN collector’s series carbine, as list price is only $1049.00. https://www.colt.com/detail-page/m4-carbine-145-heavy-barrel-pinned
Good luck finding one. Out of curiosity I went to gun.deals and clicked on the first twenty listings and they were all out of stock.
It’s a good shooting setup! I didn’t know Colt was offering a complete rifle.
Huge thread on these rifles on TOS.
Pretty sure it was a limited release last year.
edited 6/4: apparently there is a new 2018 release, supposedly <250ea.
I ordered 3 memorial day weekend, got all 3 last Friday.
If you don’t mind sharing, what did you end up paying per rifle?
$1050 each. I already sold one of the uppers on here for $700.
Ordered from where?
Rays Sporting Goods in Dallas. They are on a lot of manufactures “priority” list since they deal in volume.
They’re no longer in stock, so I guess my hunch above was right (only by a week though).
Thanks for posting the pics. I have my name on the waiting list at my FFL for this carbine.
Noticed the serial number prefix is CR and not LE. This seems to be normal for this run and some other LE lines. I could care less but some folks will have a aneurism it’s not an LE s/n. Seems hit and miss on the C marked BCG. Mine was not.
Can you confirm with me the front sight base is not F marked? My Colt SOCOM upper I purchased through G&R was not F marked but it mic’d out as a proper F base height. I was told Colt is not F marking their FSB anymore.
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Are they still putting the H2 buffer in it, or did they sacrifice that as well?
So, why produce rifles that will disappoint their base? Does it really cost that much to address markings, etc.?
Self destruction :stop:
The rollmark is great. I’m pleasantly surprised to see them offer that.
Thanks for posting pics! If you want to get rid of the picatinny logo on your Matech sight, hit it with some aluma black.
He had them yesterday and they sold out quickly.
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How are these different from the 2013 M4A1’s from Colt?
The barrel length with the perm attached muzzle device on the new one is overall 16". The older gun has a 16" barrel and then add the length of a muzzle device and is removable. I’ll take some pics of both when I’m home next week.
IIRC, the later production 2013’s had a Troy rail instead of the earlier Knight’s rail. There was some grumbling over that.
They also changed the serial numbers from LE to CR on the new rifle.