Armalite AR-7 dates of manufacture

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Do you have a Costa Mesa ArmaLite ?
What color is the stock brown, green, marbled or black?
Is yours a ArmaLite, a Charter arms, a AR7 industries or a Henry?
Old ones have no scope mount provisions. newer ones have 3/8 dovetail on top.
 

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Do you have a Costa Mesa ArmaLite ?
What color is the stock brown, green, marbled or black?
Is yours a ArmaLite, a Charter arms, a AR7 industries or a Henry?
Old ones have no scope mount provisions. newer ones have 3/8 dovetail on top.
It is an Armalite, Costa Mesa and it has a camouflage stock. No scope mount. Serial number 664**. This is a photo with a 15 round magazine (not the original). The original magazine was in the butt stock when this was taken. The barrel on this rifle was sanded leaving part of the original finish. I plan to refinish the barrel with some DuraCoat later on.
 
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how well does the 15 round mag work? what brand?
I haven't actually tested the 15 rounder since I got it. There is a problem with it though. Even though it is locked in it moves up ad down
in the magazine well and inch and a half or so. It doesn't come out but you can grab it and move it up and down. Obviously that's not
going to work very well unless I push up on it from the bottom to hold it in place so that the rounds will feed. Not sure what brand the mag is. It could be a Triple K. I'll have to re-check that to be sure. I still have the original magazine though.
 

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Is there a way to break it down further by serial number? What year between 1959 and 1973. My serial number is 66486.
 

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