Great Lakes Firearms 223 Wylde Lichen Grey Rifle

This Great Lakes Firearms rifle is chambered in 223 Wylde and wears a Lichen Grey finish. 223 Wylde is a chamber specification rather than a cartridge of its own. It is cut to headspace both 223 Remington and 5.56 NATO safely, which is why it shows up on rifles meant to be fed whatever ammunition is on hand rather than one specific loading.

The grey finish is the visual hook here, a soft muted tone that looks nothing like a standard black rifle and reads differently in daylight than a coated black gun does. For a shooter who already owns a black rifle, a finish like this is a straightforward way to tell two guns apart in the safe or in a case without reading serial numbers. The Wylde chamber is the practical part of the package, since it avoids both the tight tolerances of a match 223 chamber and the looser dimensions of a 5.56 chamber, and it leaves the ammunition decision open.