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Originally Posted by spartan4205
After reading through all the information on the WE GBBR's, and observing some on the field, these GBBR's seem to need a huge amount of maintenance to game successfully. Now I know the GBBR's are suppose to be more 'realistic' but isn't all this extra work to keep the WE's shooting a big pain?
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That is a very good observation and fair question.
[*edit* quality working reliable] AEGs are very much..."slap a battery in, fill mags with BBs and you're good to go"...pack it away right after a game...take it out last minute before another...add battery/bbs and go.
GBBRs are not so much. They are essentially a big gas blow back pistol....cycling heavy parts with lots of gas.
For maintenance...they're like a cross between a real rifle and a gas pistol.
Maintenance free...absolutely not. But the maintenance is very straightforward and centered around checking it over and lubing up the gas/moving parts.
Once you've got the lubing figured out...there's not a whole lot to do.
For example...this is ALL I do:
Pregame
- gas/oil mags - load BBs
- run a cleaning rod down the barrel
- tune NPAS to field limits
In Game
- gas/oil mags + BBs
Post game
- wipe down rile (there's rusty steel bits on mine and it always seems to rain)
- gas/oil mags
- once over...looking for torn o-rings/cracks/breaks/loose stuff (i.e. my flashhider almost shook off the last game)
.....takes about 30 min to clean it up and pack it away
So...in the end it's less maintenance than a real rifle (i.e. cleaning/lubing)....but certainly more than an AEG.
Shoot an AEG for a while....then shoot a nicely working GBBR....
it'll ruin you and a lot of guys won't go back.