Remmington R15

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So I'm thinking of buying one and then painting it a normal colour :D

I did a search :rolleyes: here and really did not find much here about these rifles.

I guess its really a bushmaster with a funny paint job. I did look at one at P&D and one at milarm and it looks like the finish may not be that durable. I'm thinking a nice duracoat or armacote finish would make it look normal.

So whats the opinion on these rifles.
 
petermoo999 said:
Just another copy of AR15, if you are going to re-paint, go for the Norinco CQ5.56 (M4) and save yourself $400-500.
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X2. There both restricted, with the money you save, you could get lots of accessories. I shot 5 rounds out of the R15 and it was just as good as my Norinco CQ311 in accuracy.
 
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I looked at one on Del Selin's table at the Penticton gun show this past weekend and I liked it. It had the retractable stock, tubular floated forend, flat top with no sights front or back. It looked good and felt good, price was $1250 all inc.
 
If you are going to shoot service rifle it would be a good rifle. I would take one over a Norinco any day. I was looking at them (and a can of Krylon) but bought a Stag 4R as it is closer to the C7 the army issues me.
 
Just ordered one :dancingbanana:

I think that the 18" barrel with the midlenght gas system is as close to optimal for an all around service rifle as you'll get. :D

So I'll have to order some duracoat/armacoat or whatever, and get my hands on some good cleaning/stripping chemicals :D thats stage 1

stage 2 will be later and involve a lathe and a flashhider :D
 
woodchopper said:
Just ordered one :dancingbanana:

I think that the 18" barrel with the midlenght gas system is as close to optimal for an all around service rifle as you'll get. :D

So I'll have to order some duracoat/armacoat or whatever, and get my hands on some good cleaning/stripping chemicals :D thats stage 1

stage 2 will be later and involve a lathe and a flashhider :D
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Be sure to post pics of your progress!! Good luck.:D
 
You are going to like the R15. I have the full length version. Bought it in about November, put ~1800 rnds through it now. temperature ranges from -35C to +15C. Dry days, and blowing snow days. 100m to 500m. I really like this rifle. The barrel is heavy enough to keep it cool through a string, but not so heavy that it can't be carried.

It has a bunch of neat things like a crane o-ring, staked bolt carrier key and m4 cuts that the internet says you need. The free float tube is certainly nice.

As far as accuracy, I have only shot it off a bag twice. Once to sight in the scope(NF2.5-10), and once to see just how bad I really am in unsupported shooting at 500m. It is a very accurate rifle.

The trigger is nice and crisp, but very light. It was not service rifle legal, so I replaced one of the springs to increase the pull weight.

I have shot about a dozen types of factory ammo through it, but mostly reload.

As far as the color, if it were non restricted, I would paint an AR, though I would not do as good a job as Remington has. The Remington finish is certainly durable.

I have only shot one norc m4, but for Service Rifle, definitely would prefer the R15. I would say that the R15 is above a stag. Certainly above any of the Chinese rifles I have seen so far.

Now all we need is some of that global warming that Al Gore owes us so we can have a real full blown service match some day. July?
 
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carbonrod said:
You are going to like the R15. I have the full length version. Bought it in about November, put ~1800 rnds through it now. temperature ranges from -35C to +15C. Dry days, and blowing snow days. 100m to 500m. I really like this rifle. The barrel is heavy enough to keep it cool through a string, but not so heavy that it can't be carried.

It has a bunch of neat things like a crane o-ring, staked bolt carrier key and m4 cuts that the internet says you need. The free float tube is certainly nice.

As far as accuracy, I have only shot it off a bag twice. Once to sight in the scope(NF2.5-10), and once to see just how bad I really am in unsupported shooting at 500m. It is a very accurate rifle.

The trigger is nice and crisp, but very light. It was not service rifle legal, so I replaced one of the springs to increase the pull weight.

I have shot about a dozen types of factory ammo through it, but mostly reload.

As far as the color, if it were non restricted, I would paint an AR, though I would not do as good a job as Remington has. The Remington finish is certainly durable.

I have only shot one norc m4, but for Service Rifle, definitely would prefer the R15. I would say that the R15 is above a stag. Certainly above any of the Chinese rifles I have seen so far.

Now all we need is some of that global warming that Al Gore owes us so we can have a real full blown service match some day. July?
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good to hear. I went with the carbine with collapsable stock.

funny thing is I have a few hundred rounds and reloading dies allready but this will be my first 223

as for summer, they are predicting snow again tommorrow :(
 
Big Mike said:
I did a search and got "0 results found"
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Then you must have only done ONE click instead of two.

I selected the black rifles forum (click number one)

I selected a date range of the past 36 months. (click number two)

Other than putting in R15 as a search term..............that is all that is required to get 29 threads one of which naturally is this one.
 
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