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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JR777" data-source="post: 4272167" data-attributes="member: 45725">There's a lot of nuance here. If you just like the retro look and you're not trying to clone or make something collectible then I guess that kind of simplifies things.I think the easy button here is to just buy an old Colt carry handle AR like the Colt Sporter, and then you can outfit it however you like. An M68 red dot is pretty retro, and they pretty much stack up against any modern optic in just about every category. It's still pretty easy to find the old M68s with the cantilever for the carry handle.The light would be a problem. Retro would be Surefire Millennium, which is like 100 lumens vs modern LED lights that are 1k plus. About the best you could do is a Surefire Millennium with a Malkoff LED conversion. It would look retro on the outside but have a modern LED lamp inside. Still super big and heavy compared to modern lights though, and uses a different mounting pattern than the current scout, and it's getting hard to find aftermarket mounts in that old pattern.</blockquote>