First of all I'd like to say long time reader first time poster, much appreciation for the board, and I'm hoping someone can offer some information on what my friend has stumbled on.
The rifle in question is a Palmetto Armory AR-15. From my research, I determined that Palmetto Armory was a sister company of a larger company that made aircraft parts, and Palmetto Armory was ultimately acquired my Olympic Arms. The rifle is clearly milled, as indicated by the circular marks that can be seen on the patina of the metal. The stock is one of the old metal telescopic stocks. The grip appears to be original. The upper appears to perhaps not have been the original upper (or maybe Palmetto only made receivers, which, is my opinion).
Upon inspection, the gun appeared to be in good working order. It had sat in a safe for many years. By my friends estimate, due to his grandfathers shooting habits, and collecting habits, it's likely he might never have shot this gun himself and that it could have been in a safe for the last 30 years.
He put a clip in and on the first pull the gun fired three rounds just like a three round burst gun would. His eyes got big and so did mine, and he fired it again, and that time, two rounds went off, then a very slight pause, and then a third round. I suppose you could summarize the firing of the gun as mostly inconsistent.
We were both puzzled and concerned about what we'd just seen.
The concerns I had were: His grandfather owned several companies and this gun came from a safe in his office. In the safe were many, many documents but it is unclear at this time if there is proper documentation of the gun, and this was my primary concern. The gun went back into the safe in the event it is discovered to be an asset of the company etc. My 2'nd concern was the apparent look of a semi auto gun that fired a three round burst, indicating that something had been altered internally. I snapped some shots of the receiver and can post pics if anyone can help identifying if the trigger groupings or whatever necessary parts have been altered to make this gun a three round burst weapon, and, on a slightly other paranoid concern- the pause inbetween rounds...what would cause that? We have a fair amount of shooting experience between us, and I've shot many machine guns, but i've never had a gun/seen a gun do this.
If anyone has any other information regarding Palmetto Armory please share it, and if anyone knows of a situation like this with this gun or other guns with regard to the three round burst, please advise. If you would like to see pics of the receiver and some internal shots let me know, I will upload and post.
I apologize for my first post being of an annoying nature, but until it's decided whether this gun was purchased (his grandfathers collection exceeded 200 long guns alone) and never shot or whether it was kept in this particular safe b/c it has proper documentation both of us would like to learn as much as possible about the gun, the manufacturer, and the apparent problem of an unknown 3 round burst and the irregular 3 round burst on the 2'nd pull. I have searched high and low and there is very little information out there on Palmetto Armory.
Regards,
Tex
The rifle in question is a Palmetto Armory AR-15. From my research, I determined that Palmetto Armory was a sister company of a larger company that made aircraft parts, and Palmetto Armory was ultimately acquired my Olympic Arms. The rifle is clearly milled, as indicated by the circular marks that can be seen on the patina of the metal. The stock is one of the old metal telescopic stocks. The grip appears to be original. The upper appears to perhaps not have been the original upper (or maybe Palmetto only made receivers, which, is my opinion).
Upon inspection, the gun appeared to be in good working order. It had sat in a safe for many years. By my friends estimate, due to his grandfathers shooting habits, and collecting habits, it's likely he might never have shot this gun himself and that it could have been in a safe for the last 30 years.
He put a clip in and on the first pull the gun fired three rounds just like a three round burst gun would. His eyes got big and so did mine, and he fired it again, and that time, two rounds went off, then a very slight pause, and then a third round. I suppose you could summarize the firing of the gun as mostly inconsistent.
We were both puzzled and concerned about what we'd just seen.
The concerns I had were: His grandfather owned several companies and this gun came from a safe in his office. In the safe were many, many documents but it is unclear at this time if there is proper documentation of the gun, and this was my primary concern. The gun went back into the safe in the event it is discovered to be an asset of the company etc. My 2'nd concern was the apparent look of a semi auto gun that fired a three round burst, indicating that something had been altered internally. I snapped some shots of the receiver and can post pics if anyone can help identifying if the trigger groupings or whatever necessary parts have been altered to make this gun a three round burst weapon, and, on a slightly other paranoid concern- the pause inbetween rounds...what would cause that? We have a fair amount of shooting experience between us, and I've shot many machine guns, but i've never had a gun/seen a gun do this.
If anyone has any other information regarding Palmetto Armory please share it, and if anyone knows of a situation like this with this gun or other guns with regard to the three round burst, please advise. If you would like to see pics of the receiver and some internal shots let me know, I will upload and post.
I apologize for my first post being of an annoying nature, but until it's decided whether this gun was purchased (his grandfathers collection exceeded 200 long guns alone) and never shot or whether it was kept in this particular safe b/c it has proper documentation both of us would like to learn as much as possible about the gun, the manufacturer, and the apparent problem of an unknown 3 round burst and the irregular 3 round burst on the 2'nd pull. I have searched high and low and there is very little information out there on Palmetto Armory.
Regards,
Tex
