The Difference Between The Vietnam Era M16, XM16E1, and M16A1 (Redux)
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Every single one of those rifles is gorgeous to look at!
M16: I am garbage.
This video was helpful.
I trained with the "604" in basic at Lackland AFB in August/September, 1979. They were converted to chamber ten round .22 long rifle magazines. I felt cheated because I didn't get to actually fire the 5.56 mm round. I now own my own AR/M4A3 in 5.56 NATO.
I was watching "Platoon" (again) sometime this past year and this time I noticed and payed more attention to the weapons being used and I noticed that Elias and Barnes carried different weapons than the rest of the guys, and at first I thought "I didn't know the M4 was around since then??" It struck me because when I was in my basic training/OSUT in 03, we all had M16's aka "the musket", and during the first tour in 04 we had em, and it wasn't till... I wanna say the 2006-2008 tour is when I remember carrying an M4, so my other thought was why were we using the musket for all this time when then "M4" has been around since the Vietnam war? So I googled it and of course the release date for the M4 didn't match, so with some more digging I found out these short, adjustable stock, carbines we're actually called the CAR-15/XM177. When I saw the thumbnail for this video, I saw that the XM16E1 was in the vid, and since the "XM" was there, I thought it was gonna be the XM177 (me getting mixed up and assuming shit), but now the video is going and the XM16E1 is a
So much velocity and good ballistics out of those 20inch barrels 🖒🖒"
The Colt SP1 was patterned after the model 602 and it was developed during the time the 602 was being manufactured in 1963. It became commercially available to the public around Jan 1964. Excellent job on the rifles!
Great job Mike! You did well. The only thing I would add is that in reality, the hard chrome bolt/carrier would be phased out during production of the XM16E1, so some would have it, some would only have a chromed bolt, and eventually, some would have a phosphate bolt and carrier. This also applied to the flash hider, as later XM16E1's could be seen with a bird cage. Also, those dimpled selector and push-pins can usually be found on early XM's too. Early examples of the M16A1 might also be seen with a non-trapdoor buttstock. This is all the result of "new old stock" parts being used up at Colt during production, or in place of new-spec parts which weren't necessarily available due to production shortages in a given week. I guess we can go on and on about the nuances of Colt and the military supply chain, I know you wanted to just give a simple, easy to understand overview of these rifles, and you accomplished that perfectly!
The wear on those uppers looks really nice! Sweet rifles.
Trained with the M16A1 in 1981. 300 meter silhouettes using irons. Piece of cake.
Great video!
Cool vid, thank you for the info and history review.
This answered all my questions , thanks !
The M16 lacked the chrome chamber and bore, it was quickly found to rust in the extremely humid environment that it was serving in. That was one of the changes made with the E1 with the addition of a chrome chamber along with the chrome BCG. I believe later iterations of the E1 would move to a chrome chamber and bore, and were marked on the barrel accordingly. The A1, as you said, lacked the completely chrome lined BCG; instead, only the areas that would come into contact with the propellant gasses would be chromed and the rest of the carrier would be given a phosphate finish.
I was issued an xm16e1 that was marked colt ar15, I had a new upper on it but the receiver was clearly an xm16e1
Always loved the look of those og ‘Nam M16’s
Really informative, well done! :)
GREAT video on the variations
Thx. Great video. I learned alot
I'm glad I'm not the only one who put a 1:8 twist barrel on an A1 clone lol. Great video, man!