What I'm asking is , if it's not all CC parts , would it make much difference , in a resale situation, if it were a Colt USA lower or a LMT lower. Would it be easier to sell if the IUR had a colt us lower instead of a LMT ,etc?
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What's the deal with Colt Canada SA15.7?
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Bolivar
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The IUR upper is the Colt Canada part. Doesn't really matter what the lower is. The lower will sell for the value of lower, the upper will sell for the value of the upper. Parts like BCG are easily interchanged and should be sold for the price they are worth (ie a Norc bolt is worth what a Norc bolt is worth).
The total sale price should be the combined value of the component parts.
Ease of sale? Hard to say. Maybe a purchaser is ready right a way to buy just the upper but may hem and haw over paying for the rest of the parts that they may or may not actually want.
The total sale price should be the combined value of the component parts.
Ease of sale? Hard to say. Maybe a purchaser is ready right a way to buy just the upper but may hem and haw over paying for the rest of the parts that they may or may not actually want.
IMHO a Colt Canada IUR upper with CC lower would be significantly more desirable then a CC IUR and USA Colt lower or LMT lower as the complete CC rifle would be the preferred choice by almost anyone I would think.
Saying that second choice (again IMHO) would be a Colt USA lower/Colt USA bolt and CC IUR upper, however I wouldn't expect it to sell as quickly or for nearly as much money as an all CC rifle which included a CC bolt...
As Repro77 stated earlier a quality lower and bolt will work fine with a CC IUR upper, yet I wouldn't expect the demand or value to be close to an all CC rifle. Also the likelihood of the complete rifle (CC IUR upper & USA Colt lower/bolt) increasing in value also wouldn't be expected like it would if the components were all Colt Canada.
Again this is just one shooters opinion of how it should be, based on my years here at CGN and my own personal preferences.
Cheers D
Thanks, this is what I'm looking for. I've learned that you get a better return on high end firearms and as I usually sell mine and have been taking a good loss on a couple of firearms , I now want to get good quality firearms that hold their value.
Glad something I wrote was of use to another CGN'er for a change.
Another point to consider is warranty, being for you or the prospective buyer (and a selling point for the seller) being able to have any potential servicing/parts needed completed in Canada is another bonus to a Colt Canada rifle versus a Colt USA rifle or any other foreign brand.
Cheers D
^^ This.
Seeing as it was never sold as a complete rifle to begin with (a complete IUR C8, or whatever it is, for example) would command a much greater price than a parts gun, even though it might be a CC 15.7 lower. It will bring a better value, than say a run of the mill Colt USA AR-15 lower, but it will still be a sum of the parts, as opposed to a rare, complete, factory gun from the get go....know what I mean?
For example, you can put together a 9mm Colt AR15, with a 10.5" upper, and a Colt 9mm lower. Looks like an RO634 SMG, but its not, and would sell as a sum of its parts, as opposed to a factory, RO634 SMG, which would command a much higher price.
What I've seen so far is if you buy a CC and lightly use it , you can sell it for almost what you paid for it( sometimes even more). But all other brands you take a loss. For example I had a Stag 3G for sale , lightly used, cost about $1500 all in. It finally sold for $700 . I don't want to do that again by piecing together a CC upper and C IS lower.
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There isn't one. People think because they went to a read only forum here on cgn that the world is ending, and colt Canada has abandoned all hope regarding civilian sales.
In fact, colt Canada is still in the civilian sales business, and have said so via Calibre Press, via Odell Engineering, on Facebook.
If you are on Facebook, like Odell's and Calibre Press.
And someone already asked for the IUR in 11.5 or 14.5. Odell said stayed tuned, you might get your wish.
Odell's is also trying to get CF type bayonets for your rifles.
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kennyclone
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you could always just get the barrel chopped
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And if he wanted to be legal, he could get it replaced.
kennyclone
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really you can't cut a barrel down and get it rethreaded by a gunsmith?
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It is a 15.7 inch barrel. Cutting a barrel to under 18 inches makes the barrel prohibited.
