C-7: originally chromed?

You should watch Chris Bartocci on Youtube. He is the master guru on the AR platform on all accounts. He has a video on what really happened to the M16 during Vietnam. He also wrote the books Black Rifle One and Black Rifle Two. He also highly praises the C7 saying the Canadian's implemented the rifle significantly better than the American Army. He currently works for Colt as a weapons tech and served in the US Army.
 
Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
You should watch Chris Bartocci on Youtube. He is the master guru on the AR platform on all accounts. He has a video on what really happened to the M16 during Vietnam. He also wrote the books Black Rifle One and Black Rifle Two. He also highly praises the C7 saying the Canadian's implemented the rifle significantly better than the American Army. He currently works for Colt as a weapons tech and served in the US Army.
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So the answer is ... ?
 
Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
The C7 has always been a cold hammer forged chromeline chamber and bore using the H1 buffer.
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There is no such thing as an H1 rifle buffer and the CF has never used an H1 carbine buffer.

All barrels were chrome lined bore and chamber as has been stated. C7 used standard rifle buffer and the C8 a standard CAR buffer. When the CF switched to collapsible buttstocks on the C7A2 they switched to an H2 buffer, which also came with the C8FTHB and C8A3.
 
I thought it had a thicker chrome lining than the American rifles for use in really cold weather. I think I read that in an SA20 review.
 
I just remember Chris Bartocci praised the C7 and C8 that they're possibly the finest AR platform rifle made. He visited the Deimaco factory and in his words was, "I was expecting to see a couple of Canadians sitting in a shop saying, "we make guns aye." yet they had state of the art machines and the finest engineers."
 
Not too take anything away from the quality of the C7 family but it was developed in parallel to the M16A2 and entered service in 1982, the result being that the C7 family benefitted from the US experience in using the AR15 and M16 in combat and full military service for almost 20 years and the manufacturing processes needed for certain aspects of the AR15/M16/C7 family were matured by that point.
 
It also helps that the C7 wasn't built to minimum standards like the 1/4th-the-price M16.

It wasn't until fairly recently where you could have an AR that was both cheap and consistantly good.

I've heard complaints from 3 different generations of U.S. military vets on how uneven the quality was.
 
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