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12 years 10 months ago #10168 by Bob Downey
Replied by Bob Downey on topic Re: New to the AR-10!!
keep the tube and buffer and spring. Don;t even remove them, Get a Tapco collapsible stock for about $35 and just put it on after you take the old one off. Tapco has both Mil-Spec size and commercial size stocks

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12 years 10 months ago #10170 by LebbenB
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Agree that the OP need not discard the receiver extension once the buttstock is removed. Disagree with using a Tapco buttstock. Vltor and Magpul make great aftermarket buttstocks. The OP could also order one from Armalite itself.

As for why the Buttstock was pinned in the fully extended position, perhaps the rifle was done that way so it would be legal in states like NY, NJ, and CA.

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12 years 9 months ago #10676 by ADTREM
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Hi Wade, I'm new here but thought I could help. Here in CT we are required to have fixed stocks. So if someone wants a M4 adjustable stock look it has to be non adjustable. This is done by simply putting a roll pin in an adjustable stock, or using a manufactured to look adjustable stock. I have run into both. I believe you have the latter. You would know by looking at the bottom of the buffer tube to see if there are holes where the latch would engage. If you live where adjustable stocks are legal the only way to make this type adjustable is to replace the entire assy. I am not sure of the messurement on commercial buffer tubes but noticed that your measurement is only one ten thousandths off of a mil spec. This is not much, and may just be a variance in measuring instruments. However I will google to do some more research on the difference in mil vs commercial. Hope this helps some.

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12 years 9 months ago #10677 by ADTREM
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Oops! Not one ten thousandth but one one hundredth or ten thousandths.
(.010) not (.0001) huge difference in measurements but still a very small variance in what you measured vs mil spec measurements.

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12 years 9 months ago #10734 by seven62
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I own three AR10's and none have a collapsible stock. If this gun were mine, I would replace it with a Magpul CTR. I think this is the best one out there for the money.
Just get one for a commercial tube and the switch should be a snap
There is really no need to change the tube, plus you will need special tools to do this. B)

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12 years 9 months ago #10786 by OleCowboy
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ADTREM wrote: Hi Wade, I'm new here but thought I could help. Here in CT we are required to have fixed stocks. So if someone wants a M4 adjustable stock look it has to be non adjustable. This is done by simply putting a roll pin in an adjustable stock, or using a manufactured to look adjustable stock. I have run into both. I believe you have the latter. You would know by looking at the bottom of the buffer tube to see if there are holes where the latch would engage. If you live where adjustable stocks are legal the only way to make this type adjustable is to replace the entire assy. I am not sure of the messurement on commercial buffer tubes but noticed that your measurement is only one ten thousandths off of a mil spec. This is not much, and may just be a variance in measuring instruments. However I will google to do some more research on the difference in mil vs commercial. Hope this helps some.

That is GREAT to hear. I have not heard the latest data by as I understand it drive by shootings with adjustable stock guns have dropped down to near nothing. Time the govt got in control of this stuff.

I know for a fact that durning the time of he Klinton Assault Weapons ban, there was NOT one single reported drive by bayoneting, just goes to prove that if you do not have a bayonet lug people are much safer in America...

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