For sale is a Bushmaster M17S semi-automatic rifle in 5.56 NATO. Serial number- P03188. This rifle is in great condition and comes with a 30-round magazine and sling. This rifle has s a picatinny rail and iron sights underneath! Uses AR style parts and is one of the more unique firearms to leave Bushmaster's door. It has a 21.5 inch barrel which its lining was of hard chrome of Chrome-Moly Vanadium Steel. Standard accessories included a shoulder sling which connected at the buttstock base and the forend via hinged loops. The firing action was of a short-stroke piston with self-compensating gas-operation system. Other features including a semi-automatic fire mode and the gun was air-cooled. The steel magazine was designed as a straight, 10-round-deep spring-actuated system for 5.56mm/.223 Remington cartridges. Also offered (where legal) was an M16 STANAG-style, curved, 30-round magazine. The magazine release was made ambidextrous for a more universal buying market and fitted to the lower receiver. According to Bushmaster marketing, the weapon system accepted all AR-type magazines. The M17S was a commercial "bull-pup" rifle system sold by the Bushmaster Firearms company of Windham, Maine, in the early-to-mid 1990s. She was originally of Australian origin and nearly saw her potential fulfilled as the standard combat rifle for the Australian Army before fate took her in another direction. In the end, she was produced for a few short years but found a home in the cut-throat civilian gun market of the United States.
V2-K2
Barrel Length: 21.5
Bore condition: Excellent