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www.fragoutmag.com recommendation is to remove the paint and replace it with Cerakote Sniper Grey color. For a perfect looking rifle you will also need proper magazines. Nam Ear short 20 rounders are best, but aluminum 30 rounder bananas will do the job. Don't even think about using PMAGs, it's blasphemy! For the sling you can use M1 carbine sling, duct taped 550 cord or even GP sling with 550 loops. All of the- se are historically correct. HOW DOES IT RUN? This is a fun gun. Do not expect sub-MOA accuracy. It's cool lo- oking, compact (730 mm) and lightweight (around two kgs) bla- ster. Only things to improve are the visuals I mentioned earlier. If you decide to do some trigger work and replace springs, then you can use it as a 3-gun rifle. huge! 110 mm long, 25 mm radius and works as in the original! US-ma- de replicas from Troy or Brownell's feature state regulations compliant devices. Original muzzle device was multi- -functional. Main purpose was eli- mination of muzzle flash in a gun with a very short barrel, to avoid the fireball effect. Another purpose was lowering the noise for about 1 or 2 db. And third was the legenda- ry feature of making the XM177E1 shot similar to the Soviet AK47. XM177E1 sounds different from M16A1 but it is really hard to con- firm that it shoots like AK. The muzzle device of SoG XM177E1 was machined in house, based on the original blueprints. Handguard is polymer and featu- res a single-layer heat shield as in the original. It locks with Delta Ring. Bolt Carrier Group and trigger are mostly commercial parts but in some of the rifles, SoG decided to use the parts from broken M16A1 (bolts, spring, bufferts, etc.). My piece has modern parts inside. Pistol grip is modern A1-style but again, in some builds, the USGI grips were used. My gun features a modern 6-position buffer tube (original XM177E1 stock could be only ful- ly collapsed or fully extended). But the stock itself is a 1:1 replica of the characteristic aluminum stock of XM177E1. As it was mentioned earlier, upper and lower receivers came from be- aten M16A1 rifles after heavy use. After sandblasting, they have to be recoated somehow. And SoG de- cided to coat them in black or gray polymer paints. And that's really bad. Original rifles were not painted but anodized or phosphate, not in black color but Gunmetal Grey. My