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GBBR's do not work in Canada cold. Maybe on CO2 (pain in the butt)...maybe not. The last outdoor night game...definitely not on propane.

Guys that shoot a working GBBR love 'em. If you want realistic function (all except failure to fire clearing)...they're your ticket.

The ticket is costly though. If you want something confidently solid, you're going to pay for it. DO NOT CHEAP OUT on GBBRs. They're not mainstream enough to be 2nd gen cloned to a cheap but working version.

G&P/WA type stuff...IMHO...are "builders" guns. If you want to trick out and pick every part/spring/pin...they're the way to go.

In my experience...WE's are solid and work. Metal M4's (and prob the 416/PDW) are solid. Plastic is plastic and unlike an AEG SCAR...there's lots of heavy metal banging around in a GBBR SCAR.

Mags are bitch. They might leak, they might not. They may work well in your gun, they might not. So far...there's no magic bullet for mags. Plus they're heavy, expensive and you really don't feel like tossing them around like sub 10$ plastic mags.

Unlike some guys who have them and have just put a couple of mags through it, I've skirmished my WE M4 on numerous occasions. It works. It's much more "realistic" in controls, trigger feel (it's an actual hammer/sear), noise feedback (and dead man's click) and handling. Mags are limited to 30rnds...but I think that's a good thing.

So...they're expensive. The mags are so-so. They're temperature sensitive.

But once you shoot one...it's all worth it, really...it is.



P.S. Put it this way...if you come by to visit and shoot it for a couple of mags...then pick up an AEG and shoot it...there will be no-doubt at all in your mind as to which one you'd prefer to use. When/where/how and what'll take to use one...those are the questions. Personally, I'll just keep it's use for indoors until it warms up outside and then I'll put it through it's paces in field games (I got it late in the season last year and didn't hit a field game before the chill set in).