Weird 1980's AR - Sendra Lower/Colt Chopped Upper/Rhinoliner Coating?

[@spinyheghog]

That rubber coating was a thing late 80s early 90ds it is a Kevlar high temp rubber mix a few knife makers used ridiculously expensive. Emerson knives used it on fixed blade as handle for a model they would run once a year. I put money that had the adjustable stock with the adjuster taken out with a spare mag holder fitted in. I remember them being sold as Alaska trooper stocks.

[@booliganshootingsports]

Interesting! The buffer tube is a two position adjustable unit, it would be interesting to try and find the correct stock.

[@docternoblex]

@@booliganshootingsports i believe Doublestar ACE makes a 2 position repro for that spec of buffer tube

[@a_cook]

That is super awesome. Everything on that is custom. Even the magazine has a AR-180 cut.

[@booliganshootingsports]

Good eye, I didn't even catch that until you mentioned it.

[@ARShooter1000]

I didn't even scroll down to see your post before I made mine. Good catch.

[@mcdoctorglock]

That coating is Crackle-Coat, a very tough spray on early epoxy type finish. I used it for quite a few things, but never an AR upper. It seemed to stick EXTREMELY well to metal, to the point where you had to sandblast it to get it completely off. I used Crackel-Coat when I rebuilt a PAWS semi-auto Sterling that used Sten magazines. Talk about a Franken gun! ETA: KEEP IT! It's awesome just as itself. I still have my first AR- an Olympic Arms lower receiver with the giant lion (not cast, btw) etched into it. This was from the early 90's, when the AR market just started taking off. Olympic Arms must have used the same anodizing company as it was a deep purple. I semi-bubba'd my rifle by using Brownells' baking lacquer on the outside and Gun-Kote (now Dura-Coat) dry film lubricant on the inside. It still operates and there is very little wear marks on the Gun Kote, even after the Norinco 120rd drum magazine days now long gone...

[@BigBosley]

Awesome. I still can't believe all the franken guns I saw at guns shows in the late 80s early 90s. Oh god, yeah the VHS tables, remember the pre-bump stock era Hellfire adapter? I have one in a tool box somewhere... hilarious!

[@booliganshootingsports]

Back when you could still find things at gun shows other than overpriced bubba’d milsurp and beef jerky.

[@sixoffive]

I met Drasen at a gun show back in 83 or 84. He was selling “kits” and on one of his tables he had a pile of auto sears for sale. A kit, everything except the lower and auto sear was $350 for carbine 16” barrel pinned flash hider with collapsing stock. He told me his son on the other side was selling lowers, ATF frowned on package deals. Young and foolish me walked away, it was a different time.

[@tangero3462]

I saw this and immediately got A280 vibes, that would be an awesome build with that upper!

[@aceman1126]

This looks like something snake pliskin would be using lol thanks for the vid!

[@jamesgravel7755]

That finish was used on a lot of sterling sub guns and it was touted as arctic/desert conditions capable and highly durable and very expensive at the time being that it was a space age polymer/rubber variant. The stock was taken off because it had the unit number and a extra mag holder in it and was probably taken off at the time of sale because of that it someone said damn I need that cool as stock and robbed it. The story may not be that rediculous

[@farklestaxbaum4945]

I can honestly see that being a real 1980s Alaska State trooper gun and if thats the case its really a cool piece of history as is.

[@magickathax]

Btw while the comments are low on this video, I love your content

[@magickathax]

I love the aggressive handguard on it. That scope fits it an odd amount to lmao

[@booliganshootingsports]

It has that mid 80s aesthetic down perfectly.

[@1x93cm]

Makes me wanna grow a mustache, grab a pair of aviators with my finest casio watch while sipping tequila and listening to Kenny Loggins

[@beserkerpatroit1337]

very cool, it's quite interesting to see how the oldtimers got around before the days 1913 and MLok everything, reminds of the sniper rifle from UT99

[@jasonb4350]

As long as it sends freedom seeds it will grow on you! Interesting piece my brother from another mother!

[@Kazues_]

That my friend is what we call a vibe. I need something like that in my life.

[@leopoldbarnes8655]

Love the video! Thanks for the yarn and for bringing us an interesting forgotten weapon...cough...I mean piece of forgotten history.

[@scotthaddad563]

Hey, just found your channel! About early Colt AR-15’s , in the early eighties I bought what was known as a CAR-15. It was a model SP-1 and had the pencil barrel with a short round hand guard and carry handle with collapsible stock and no forward assist. Of course I had to have the upper with forward assist so at the next gunshow I bought one and I bought a surplus fullstock with corresponding (longer) buffer tube and buffer with longer spring. So now it is a FRANKENRIFLE on an SP-1 lower. I didn’t keep the parts I took off the original gun, (kicking myself in the a$$ now) so I can never go back to original.

[@choppingchannel]

Love your channel. Guns with stories are my favorite to collect. Cheers👍🇺🇸

[@thelastminuteman7513]

I'm picturing that with a stock, sling and brand new finish in an 80s action flick or epsiode of the A-Team and it was probably a badass rifle back then.

[@halekang1805]

This was unexpectedly super cool. Tbh I was just expecting a bubba nightmare build.

[@giantenemycrab5596]

Looks like if you put together every single gun that appears in Heat

[@deeno313bababa]

That’s a good history on that firearm!! It sure has seen its days

[@texaspatriot9159]

Love your channel You always have some cool stuff to show us

[@CaliFREEDOM]

Amazing find, if your friend decides he doesn’t want it, I’d love to make an offer. Excited to see you further ‘bubba it up’ as a Star Wars blaster though too!

[@Crangaso]

Interesting Indeed - Love browsing Gun Broker and Bass Pro/Cabela's. The Rhino Lined upper is unique to say the least. 3 digit serial # - Nice retro AR

[@booliganshootingsports]

I always look for interesting things in the used sections at Cabelas and on their website, sadly nothing ever jumps out at me.

[@Crangaso]

@@booliganshootingsports I click the guns link, then click used guns. From there I filter & browse. Cabelas & Bass Pro share new & used national firearm inventory online. The challenge can be getting a firearms dept to call back. Many times I've been told out of state firearm purchases aren't allowed, even after I detail it being sent to my local Cabelas or Bass Pro for pick-up. Other times it will sell before I get a call or email back. I've seen many preban firearms come up but they go quick & can be priced at a steal. I got a Stribog for $550 & had $550 in Cabelas gift cards from 6 months accumulated work bonus'. Paid $80 out of pocket when it was all said & done.

[@PavewayJDAM]

Sendra....theres a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. You know that weird texture finish would probably look decent if you rattle canned it right, maybe sponge the raise portions with a contrasting color....

[@fender_ketchup]

I say grab a period stock for it and keep it as-is. That thing is a piece of history!

[@mcdoctorglock]

I concur... I bet an old milspec aluminum collapsible stock (yes, they used to be all aluminium, not plastic) would slip right onto that buffer tube. The only thing I would change would be the scope rings- I HATE those see-thru scope mounts. I don't know how many of them I've thrown away in my lifetime from used rifles I've bought.

[@TrapperCody]

You gotta love the classics.

[@juanmanuelmarchioli]

In fact is a Delta Force DMR... Trust me... Ask Larry Vickers...

[@booliganshootingsports]

The textured coating is to prevent fingerprints from being left on the gun in case you’re captured. The story is all coming together.

[@dave6907]

I think that thing would be considered high speed back in the day, not a Bubba at all.

[@booliganshootingsports]

Oh, definitely. We look at this thing today and think "What the hell, why'd they chop off an A1 carry handle?!" because we have options these days. Back then, if you wanted a scope, a GOOD scope, this was what you had to do. Everything on it looks professionally done, and the parts seem to be really well chosen for their purpose and timeframe. The muzzle brake alone is super cool 80's tech.

[@jamesgravel7755]

Do you see the sand/ice cuts in the bolt? That would add to its legitimacy if so.

[@SeleucidArgyraspide]

Very interesting. Would love to see some footage of it been shot and that idea you had about turning it into a rebel blaster, you should defo do that.

[@shoelessbandit1581]

Honestly I'd find a period correct stock and just keep it as is. It's a really cool piece of ar history and it'd be a shame to ruin it

[@johnharrison1573]

>what to do with it If you ditch the lower, do a bolt together lower with a1 furniture for the twilight 2000 build! >just got to the part where you're talkin about a starwars build Or that!

[@AnimeFan_2013]

I think it looks beautiful 💖💖💖💖💖

[@TheUssrcjak47]

Stick a A1 upper on it with a front sight or 80s laser and it would look more badass.

[@thelastminuteman7513]

Aluminum does corrode especially when it's mated to steal and exposed to moisture.

[@TarterSauce]

Windham uses a commercial spec tube if you're looking for a cheap stock to throw on.

[@justinkase1360]

This gun certainly does have a certain aesthetic and I don't mind it, even if not the most useful. Pretty cool. Also very unfortunate about Sendra, I didn't know that.

[@booliganshootingsports]

It’s a very interesting time capsule of what was being done at the time.

[@mcdoctorglock]

@@booliganshootingsports Sendra did get some receivers registered, as a friend of mine had a registered M16. I was going to buy it from him, but I needed $14,000 (the going rate for an M16 at the time). I packed up ALL my rifles and went to a gun show to sell them all during the 2008 presidential race craziness, but was promptly kicked out of the show because they believed I was a fed! No capitalism allowed at gun shows. I haven't gone to that particular show's location ever since.

[@Morningstar_Actual]

Call me bubba or whatever but I fucking love that thing. It’s just so 80’s looking

[@berryreading4809]

It would be pretty awesome to find the "Alaskan spare mag stock" and keep it... I wonder if they had full auto/non sporter lowers and stripped those along with the buffer and stocks and surplused the uppers at some point 🤔 But if I was the one needing that lower I'd be prodding you as to why it's terrible and would make for a useless snapshot of time wall hanger 🤣👍

[@TroopperFoFo]

Something about it makes me want to say its a movie prop for like a movie that never got made or a TV show.

[@jakenbake4555]

It’s definitely…”not stock” *drum rift*

[@dmanx500]

I love it.

[@moemaster1966]

Look around sometimes an Olympic commercial buttstock turns up at the gun shows from time to time …. Building an AR back in the day was quit expensive back in the day …parts weren’t a dime a dozen and far between and could take you years to put together to find the “cool stuff “ back then ….. I had my FLL back in the day when gun shows word if mouth and shot gun news was the main supply venue…I doubt this was a bubba gun more like a ex military inspired gun …..

[@keithbrown2458]

Very strange but interesting rifle but that coding I’ve never seen or heard anything like it and I have a few with the Piccadilly rail on top but I also have a couple with a handle which is what I had the military and I still like it best Just personal thing

[@JaykPuten]

Can I call those handguards? I totally want triangle handguards... Wish I could 3d print them but alas no one's gotten to making those yet

[@shotgunrain1994]

It looks like a COD Cold War Gunsmith blueprint

[@ryanvargas4889]

I need to get a ridiculous 1980’s or 1990’s build going. SinistralRifleman did a great video on his replica of a 94AWB era setup.

[@booliganshootingsports]

I second this. Sometimes those weird old builds are super fun.

[@mcdoctorglock]

@@booliganshootingsports You guys make me sad. I lived and built in the 94 AWB era, before and after. Y'all have it too easy now!

[@johnharrison1573]

Twilight 2000 vibes dude

[@dustyak79]

Freaking Bed liner has made its way into guns now !! Seen a guy cover his jeep entirely in it he said to protect the body .

[@booliganshootingsports]

Apparently it made its way there back in the 80s, lol

[@mcdoctorglock]

@@booliganshootingsports Not bed liner- Crackle-Coat spray paint. I've used it before in the 80's and 90's. I couldn't find it since the early 2000's. :(

[@lanehamilton5228]

If it's a powder coating it might be some sort of Hammertone

[@mcdoctorglock]

Crackle-Coat. Old school spray on epoxy finish out of a rattle can. When you sprayed it on, it looked just like regular black spray paint, but as it dried it produced that crinkly surface. If you sprayed too much in one spot, you could see the spot as it would dry and crackle in a different way than a thinner spot. It worked great, and I used it for several things, but I never used in on an AR... If I could find Crackle-Coat anymore, I'd be tempted to try it on one as a retro build- maybe an A1 upper and slab sided lower...

[@killshot7041]

looks like one of my COD loadout builds

[@ATLAS_JET132]

Builds in black ops cold war be like

[@ARShooter1000]

Did anyone else see the ar18/180 mag cut on the magazine?

[@booliganshootingsports]

It’s a really well done one too. It looks factory, but I doubt it is.

[@leopoldbarnes8655]

Booligan's definition of old: *35*

[@booliganshootingsports]

When it comes to commercially made ARs, this thing is ancient, haha.

[@leopoldbarnes8655]

@@booliganshootingsports Fair enough! Crazy to think that some of the oldest ones are C&R eligible.

[@mcdoctorglock]

@@booliganshootingsports I remember asking my dad to buy a Colt M16 before they were not allowed because of the 1986 Hughes Amendment. He promptly said NO after seeing it would cost $800 from Colt, plus another $200 stamp tax (that nobody had any idea how to do the paperwork for back in the 80's- we thought you had to have a "collectors" license). That was a crap-ton of cash back then, I can understand why he said no.

[@jacobkaminski8242]

Arctic warfare finish aka flex seal

[@mezzanoon]

shooting video with Hatfield Cyberpunk furniture pls ;P

[@WildArmsResearchAndDevelopment]

I love it! Haha I’d totally have it

[@darthsquidious215]

Gives me star wars vibes. Wierd kitbashed but still oddly good looking (Edit) watched till the end. Great minds think alike I guess

[@Dgjnbv]

Almost looks like something out of a fallout 3 or New Vegas dlc, id either leave it as is or maybe add an original aftermarket stock to it

[@Nderak]

i think this is beautiful i will carry its babies

[@robertsmith6124]

I have a commercial stock off a dpms10 of you want it

[@JEJAK5396]

I’d swap that upper for a regular modern A4/M4 upper with 1913 rail and keep that funky weaver rail chop job upper as a paperweight, and switch over to a Mil Spec Buffer tube.

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

0:40 You didn’t really need to go into as long of an explanation after this as you did. Next time just say you enjoy eating green Jell-O and everyone who knows will just nod their heads in understanding.

[@booliganshootingsports]

I’m not a true Utahn, I never saw the appeal of green jello.

[@larrymarsico4059]

🤙🏻👊🏻🇺🇲

[@o80y1]

and why he ourple 😂😂

[@booliganshootingsports]

Old anodizing does that sometimes, it's funny how it ends up looking though.

[@o80y1]

@@booliganshootingsports the anodising behind the slaughter 😳

[@cd0130]

brace for fns40 le gros

[@dagamore]

20 minute video about a muzzle brake, was it edited by nutnfancy? possibly his job before doing his .mil stint and youtube 'fame' ....

[@booliganshootingsports]

Sounds about right. But if you want to see this blast from the past, it’d about 23 minutes in on this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqKykp-Ji51-f9E

[@Butter_Warrior99]

This is what happens when an ignorant politicians get there way.