M4A1 Block II: Evolution of the M4
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The M4A1 SOPMOD Block II. It is an iconic war fighting rifle and a staple within the special operations community.
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Block 2's will never age. they're so cool
SO DAMN COOL really enjoyed researching and learning about the whole history of the block 2
True mine too I used this carbine
I wanna build one Soo bad
I can definitely appreciate the lengths cloners go to in order to have a 100% clone correct firearm. I've got buddies who are like that and they're always digging through everything they can get their hands on from documents to pictures to get it correct. Me on the other hand I'm like that looks cool it's a sweet shooter so I'm gonna go with that... LOL Great video as always keepem coming guys!!!
I'm the same way man. If it looks close im good with that unless I can get the actual thing at a normal price which has been damn near impossible these last few years
@@dionysis84 I don't even attempt to clone I just do what I like or want but honestly we as civilians can get better parts then what military guys use when it comes to guns because we can get exactly what we want instead of being limited to who won the military contract. Don't get me wrong their guns are badass but I can pick and choose from the best parts available so why not take advantage of that. Take care brother!!
@@DanielBoone337 that’s the same approach I take. I could careless about my Block II build being “clone correct” when there are better parts that I can get nowadays, and probably much cheaper in most cases.
@@iTz_FLAwL3zZ If you're building a clone rifle at this point, it's either for collection purposes or just for the aesthetic. Like you guys said, there's tons of parts that are on par or better than what's used in clone builds, and they usually can be found at a lower cost because they are not "clone correct".
Likewise dude.
Have my DDM4A1 SOCOMM and love it. It’s the ONLY weapon I need.
Hey guys! Not sure if you remember me but I was one of the commenters that asked what the difference was between the HK416, Mk18, M4, M4A1, Block 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s, and whatever other combat ARs were out there and you guys really delved into the Block II. I’d like to thank you guys for delivering an in depth video of it with epic editing! Thanks y’all! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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M4 : Original Model/variant in 3rd burst only, not widely used or recognized.
M4A1 : Full-auto and most commonly used and known variant.
Mk18 : M4A1 with shortened barrel, usually 10 inches.
Block II/2 : M4A1 with RIS ( Rail Interface System ) handguard for attaching various attachments : scopes, grips, flashlights etc.
HK416 : Basically a M4A1 but made by Heckler and Koch instead of Colt and also uses a short-stroke gas piston system like the HK G36, instead of a gas only one like in standard M4s.
There are no block 3 or 4, Block 1 was a prototype/first attempt and was never officially categorized.
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@@peterlowell7963 Glad I could help 👍
@@theoutlawking9123 block II is high key the greatest AR15/556 rifle there is.
Excellent Vid, in-spite of the Winter HELL action.
The Block ll was a huge leap forward in M4 weapon development which the AR community as a whole has benefitted from.
Well done lads.
Hey yall, been a while but i wanted to speak up again!
I invested in a Wilson Combat AR, and based SOLELY on your videos, immediately put a Holosun 510C and Sly Tactical 2 point with QDs on it.
Yall may not realize it but what youre doing here really is appreciated. Thanks for the hard work yall put into this.
Enjoy your journeys dudes!
Thanks bro. Enjoy the rifle 🤙🏻
@@1911syndicate while on the subject-
Any recommendations for an optics riser besides unity?
During recce or satellite petrols, my team would push that peq a little further back. Thus having a little more weight distribution, and easier manipulation when in a prone/stagnant position for extended periods of time. There was other factors that went into play but I’m not one to rant. I personally believe we benefited from this the most during night operations. With that being said, there is a time and place for everything when conditions are set. 👁
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Love seeing videos is less than ideal conditions. Makes it more interesting. You guys have one of the most entertaining gun channels on CZcams. Keep it up
Thanks my dude
Good job guys! Love these cloner-esque AR “builds” such a fun but expensive hobby/ way of life
I built a SOPMOD Block II FSP. I've got a handful of clones now and the SOPMOD is to this day my most shot clone by far. Its done as correct as legally possible, as are all of my clones, and its proven to be a dream to shoot. Its reliability has astounded me. Its not a super hard clone to build either compared to some of the other clones. Parts are still pretty available, but not cheap. Its probably the rifle I recommend the most when people ask me what clone they should build first in their journey down the clone rabbit hole... that bleeds you dry and makes you go bankrupt. lol I've got some neat clones like my 28th EOD CQBR, but at the end of the day, none are more of a dream to shoot than the Block II SOPMOD... but guys... you really need a FSP in your lives... just saying... lol
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Man, why do y'all keep punishing yourselves with these winter vids? Y'all could've sat around a campfire or something.
Love what y'all do!
Just finished my Semi-Clone BlockII. added a Law Tac folder, my old issued Surefire M952V KM3 with M93 mount. This paired with my old Mk12 clone upper I've built prior completes my nostalgic inspired collection I am proud of. Awesome pieces of history to be appreciated. Especially amongst us old GWOT dudes/dudettes
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I pulled the trigger on the sly tactical sling…I’m super pumped on it. So dope. You guys know good shit. Also, used your discount code. Appreciate y’all saving me some $.
Hell yea bro!
I really enjoy the rifle's history, and your research is much appreciated. 😃
It may be as cold as Hoth there, but holy tauntaun is that some beautiful snowy environment. The Block II is also very cool.
I think this is one of the few videos where Chris isn't wearing his Oakleys 😂...another great video guys. Favorite new channel.
hahah you're not wrong dude 👊🏼👊🏼 love me them Oakley prism lenses.
Thanks Rio
I was in regiment from 09 to 17 and that’s the exact rifle I used for a large portion of my career. Same elcan spec DR. Difference is I had a magpul stock, only one of my iron sights were KAC lol. And I didn’t run a red dot on top of the elcan
Top notch video by some stand up dudes 🤘 my Sopmod block II is the smoothest rifle I own
Great stuff! Thanks guys.
Quality production and content
Awesome take. Favorite rifle config of all time. I chose to take the A2 grip off and put a DD grip on it. Could care less about it being clone correct, I need it to be effective for ME.
Exactly.
The grip angle of those DD grips is fantastic
@@jameswessling6982 I agree. It’s a toss up between the Magpul K2’s and those, for me. Ironically enough, I ended up swapping the DD grip to the K2+ on mine.
@@pin_high BCM Mod 0 grips are great too. There are so many great options for accessories nowadays. Not to date myself but it's nice to not have to Dremel the hump off A2 grips lol
Love the block 2 series!
I love those 14.5s so I got to have a Block 2 as well.
Great review guys! I built a block II fsp clone over the last few years. The more I researched each part and slowly assembled it I grew to really love this AR build. It is my favorite AR15 without a doubt. Heavy and thicc but has exceptional accuracy with extremely manageable recoil. I feel these guns have more character then the endless number of other AR15's that saturate the market today.
The anti tilt followers first made it to my unit around late 2012. They were distinguished by having a tan follower and being from Brownell's. As the company armorer, I had to make sure 130 dudes were outfitted with those versus the old school green follower mags.
Around the same time as the Insight lights, Surefire was starting to come out with the Vampire variants, though I can't recall if they were called that.
Thanks for chiming in 👍🏻
love DD, favorite long gun maker
I had a Colt 6920 14.5 pinned 3 prong with a DD rail and SF light ECT.
Basically a Block II setup but it was. gov profile 16" barrel that I chopped and pin/weld the 3 prong, did BCM extractor upgrade, Ambi controls.
Was such a great rifle, and I kinda miss it lol now I have a Geissele upper on the Colt Lower so kinda a Block 3 type build with an LPVO and an offset DPP. Much as I loved the Colt upper, this Geissele is pretty beast and both were about 1 MOA capable spitting quality ammo.
I read an article saying that now Army put RIS2 rail back on the URGI after conducting an almost unnecessarily too severe drop test. Mk16 hand guard touched the gas block and damaged it. They will either put an enhanced version, a lower profile gas block or stay with RIS 2. I guess they are good friends with DD or bribed by it.😂
I am a block 2 user, this made me feel little better. 😅
Great video, guys!!!
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Ooooohh yes! A slide show!
Awesome rifle. Thank you for your thoughts on it
Whaaaaaaat Chris doin the voice over😮 caught me off guard there
Cool video thanks.it’s colder than shit here in MI to.
The RSI II is heavier than mlok but I wouldn't call it heavy
Stronger is a better word. Stronger, better best. Whatever fits
@@Don_Frahn agree, I went with weight because that's what they were criticizing.
Mark is such an awesome dude.
Good video 👍🏻
You guys should definitely start making shorts as well. One minute full Auto or something crazy fun.
Can you post a link to the SOPMOD document? im struggling to find it online and would love to read through it
Oh lord, Nothing like a third hole on a good looking Gucci piece of work..💯🏴☠
Great vid! you guys didnt cover that obscenely large forward assist button tho... thing looked like a boot hanging of the side.
I have a clone block2. But Midlength. But mlok. But magpul buis. But roscoe barrel. But 16inch. But sopmod stock so it's legit. Great vid
That was funny.
Great job on the content Chris. Won't hear no complaining from me. 👍👌...👊🇺🇸🇺🇸💪
Thanks Ronald appreciate you my dude 👊🏼👊🏼
Sweet video
You guys should've got the FSB version, the best version 💅
Love the Block 2. I’ll take a FSP version.
Is the bad lever CLONE correct? also is the Daniel defense m4v1 an issued rifle in that program???
Larry Vickers didn’t throw this gun out of a helicopter; the rifle from the Daniel Defense torture tests in 2009 and 2012 was an M4V1, which has the Omega X 12.0 FSP rail, not the RIS II FSP.
Why do you have the stock fully collapsed? It seems like you could pull it out a bit so your hand isn't scrunched up against your chest and you could get some better recoil control.
Probably eye relief with the Elcan. I think it's pretty short , so with backup site then Elcan, needs to run stock full collapse ? Just a guess
mine is the FSP version but I love it
In the process of building a semi-clone correct block 2. Since living in a restricted state means I'm probably going to be paying even more if I was to try and track down correct cage code receivers and barrels.
I don't consider it a major party foul to go and use a pre-build daniel defense upper, since they were already contracted for the hmrail system. I would argue their receivers and parts are probably on par if not better than Colt.
I love how you guys just cruise out into the snowy countryside and there are M4's just sitting there, waiting to be picked up! Where do you guys live? Cause I wanna move there!
*AMERICA! WHAT A COUNTRY!!*
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Freakin America
you had me at BAD Lever - I too like to live dangerously
Lol
Fun video, good info. Here's a comment for the algorithm. And, let's not forget my middle finger to big tech.
I just wish they would make the blockIII lower with the blockII rail.
And yes as a owner of a mk18 it feels like it will handle full auto like it was designed for it.
Daniel defense m4a1 will be my next rifle
You guys usually don’t know shit about guns but you did a nice job on this one 👍🏻
i think thats a compliment? either way thanks homie
chris is a block 2 fanboy and it came out in this one. good vid
@@onebillionlol hey thank you dude i liked them going in to the review but i am for sure a fan boy now but not one of the crazy cult cloner fan boys
Mark's IG channel has been one of my go to channels since I first got on the IG. He's got the baddest gear, is one of the best sources of info and is fucking HILARIOUS. This rifle has been one of my all time favorites. I've built a poor man's faux version and I love it. I'd love to see a real MK18 Mod 0 on the channel with more shooting!!!!
yeah Marc is a good friend and has helped me out in more ways then i can count with this whole gun review stuff. Love that guy.
I’m not sure if it’ll be what you’re looking for but we do have an upcoming MK18 vid
Hey anyone know how to pin a SF 4 prong 556 there is no pi. Home and didn’t get it in military packaging it came like any other flash hider im assuming without the pinhole it’s going to cost more
I have a theory that y'all put so much into video aesthetics and productions because you're used to aesthetics and presentation playing such a big role in real estate. And it's transferring crazy well.
Also, earlier this week I said "part duex" in a serious meeting at work. So, fuck you for that Chris. Lol.
That RMR topped Elcan Specter DR is fukin' 🔥
This location looks extremely cold! Crispy shot this with a “beauty” filter! Chris’s eyes looked like a White Walker’s for Game of Thrones. Nice rifle though! I thought Brolin ran a DD in Sicario??
Beauty? Agree to disagree
Great video. Disagree with the movie part. Both extraction and Sicario were not using sopmod block II’s
What ear pro are you running
Any plans on reviewing or getting your hands on an LMT?
Would love to. No luck yet
Was this filmed at pineview dam?
fights on!
Damn that ejection pattern was fuckin perfect lol.
Funny how the block II is considered "old technology" these days. I would have lost my whole crayon box if someone from the future gave me one in 2003 to replace my M16A2. The rapid advancements in the past 21 years with the M-16/M4, and accessories is pretty mind blowing. Especially when you compare what been done in improvements from the 60's to early 90's.
Well honestly there was some pretty crazy advancements back then too, they just aren't often recognized. For instance when Eugene Stoner first designed the M16 he intended it to have a polymer lower and a pencil profile barrel, something that was pretty revolutionary at the time. In pictures of Eugene from when the M16A1 was first released (around 1960) the circular handguards from the M16A2 could already be seen hanging on the wall, an advancement that wouldn't be added until the early 1980s. It's also worth noting that it wasn't long after the M16 was recieved in Veitnam that experiments were being conducted to chop the barrel down to various lengths. By the early 90s flat top uppers were already being developed with pic rail systems following soon after.
@@jamesmackinnon3741 You reminded me of an old picture I saw of a Rockriver M4 clone that hand the A2 carry handle chopped and a weaver or picatinny radio welded in front of the rear sight to mount am aimpoint. This was long before the flat top picatinny rail was standard. Those of us on the internet thought that modification was the coldest thing ever.
did they come with BAD levers though?
Its really not that heavy even when all dressed out. Compared to a standard M4 Carbine sure it weighs more but honestly its not at all bad to shoot offhand or from an unsupported stance. I find the mass of the rail to be a major boon to performance because it doesn’t have as much vertical movement on recoil. Its has a smooth rearward recoil pattern. The only major complaint I hear is that as the gas port erodes and widens during the life cycle of the barrel gas tends to be expelled more in the shooters face when firing suppressed. Other than that its a venerable design that likely won’t become truly obsolete for another 40-50 years. The new “Block III” took most of its attritbutes from the Block II with the exception of the gas system length.
don't know what a block 2 is but I have a daniel defense m4a1
Same thing but the dd is better 😂
Ok what did you pay for the thing? I wanna know how you got the docter sight? Can’t find em anywhere
This was loaned out to us
@@1911syndicate good friends you got there.
Any fellow ak74 owners…I have a brand new barrel in mine and I’ve been having failure to ejects and sometimes the spent casing gets stuck in between the bolt carrier and receiver/dust cover. I polished the chamber at the advice of the local gunsmith. My extractor and ejector look fine no damage. You think the chamber just needs a break in and polish?
Thats good advice , granted with all other items being in order. Gas block is aligned, proper sized, etc. Headspacing. Extractor engagement . Check wear patterns on bolt and trunions.
Might be a weak recoil spring if you're having stovepipes like that, a weak mainspring can cause the action to reciprocate too fast for it to eject reliably all the time. Try putting in an ALG enhanced power recoil spring.
When it does cycle, what is the ejection pattern like? Strong or weak? If the recoil spring isn't it, gas system is the next place I'd look.
@@frankholub4673 it chunks the cases out pretty far
Does anyone know what optic hes using?
Small brain energy for forgetting the suppressor..big brain energy for slide show.
I know I’m late, but what make is the pants ?
I got 2 of these.,..Im a big fan of the fixed front post upper though...something about the rigidity and having that solid iron sight that makes me feel good...deff my shit hits the fan rifle..Dont think anything else will take that type of abuse
Now we want a MK18 review!
We’ve got one
Insight light is still used.
I want to build this soo bad
Is the bad lever actually clone correct?
forgot to mention that wasnt im sorry. I dont use them so i forgot it was even there
@@Chrisblau damn. I wanted the defense.
RIS (rail interFACE system)
Fuck I wish it would snow down in Fort lauderdale. Every day it's like working in hell. That heat sucks.
Jake about those anti tilt followers, back in the day when the M16 and the M4 colt the magazines that was issued did not have an anti tit follower meaning that as you load your magazines sometimes the bullet will kinda dive into the magazine prevent the round from feeding cause the bullet will do like a nose dive into the mags and it was big issue, once that was resolved the magazines with the anti tilt follower the mags will not seat into the rifle properly and this was in Afghan when it happened, Soldiers will load a new mag into the rifle and as they punch the rifle out the mag will fall out of the rifle that’s where the tap your magazines came from, as of now I don’t know what caused that issue but since that FN not colt took the contract of the M4s that we know of today runs fine or just as good as a DDM4 and the Knights take that with a grain of salt. But that’s why we have the tap your mags and anti tilt followers
you need to do an X95
M4 peaked with Colt M6944, but this is very second!
nah Daniel defense m4a1 is better
@@DG-pk3fh Hmm, ok, will check that out too! Thanks, buddy.
Good lord the eye relief on that elcan must be horrible 😂
Wat, looks normal to me
Not as bad as an ACOG
@traplordghost I like them don’t get me wrong. But the eye relief is a little shorter than an Elcan in my experience
@@sambegley9966 stock is completely collapsed lol
Block II GANG
FSP Master Race
$10 says they say it’s too heavy (RIS rail, government barrel, 14.5’…..) 😆💪🏋️
Nah, Block 2s are old school DI funs. Not like KAC with their 4lbs bolt carrier group or LMTs with their monolithic thick uppers or H&Ks with their half piston half DI gimmick setup. Just simple DI like Stoner intended.
I couldn’t agree more.
@@almostontimehero5415 monolithiccc
Next up- URGI?
I’m just here to provide some roasting for forgetting the suppressor
Have y'all seen the new south park episode about real estate agents? 😂
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When you want a reliable DI gun you get this. Just make sure it's not the government profile barrel.
My block II isn't clone correct but I love the build so much. Very rugged and aesthetic
Looks cold as a bitch there! Nice content 😎
Here is a question which is better the ACOG or the Elcan?🤯🔫🧨
Elcan with my limited experience on both. i dig the two magnification options.
Same I prefer Elcan
ACOG for an RISII with FSP upper. Elcan for a RISII non-FSP upper. Of course, you might have to acquire another RISII upper with the Eotech+magnifier.
Elcan has better eye relief and glass
I'd imagine you guys recover only a small amount of brass , if any at all
What jackets are you wearing?? they look warm as shit
I don't know if I'd call that a _100%,_ clone correct build. A number of things stand out to me; most notably that Magpul BAD lever. I've never seen a Magpul grip or trigger guard either. The only grips I've ever seen are A2 grips and Hogue grips. Nor have I ever seen a teardrop forward assist either. But, it's the SOPMOD program so who knows what guys were putting on those rifles. Pretty badass build! After I get done putting together my mk18 cqbr block II build I might put together one of these block II m4 builds together as well.
Wrong…
is there a significance to the 88 on your tan butt stock?