From the initial inspection and test fire:
The gun is shooting a bit hotter than 350. I fired off about 15 rounds through my chrony using .2s. The highest was 378 fps, and the lowest at 352, with most being in the 360-365 range. I expect that the spring will somewhat settle and bring it down to around its advertised 350 range once it sees more use. Rate of fire using the included 9.6V 1100 mAh NiMH battery was 13.8 rps.
The whole body is really solid except for a bit of creak in the front handle / grip / trigger guard (whatever it's called on the P90). I think that's easily remedied with a bit of expanding foam. Seam lines are nice and level, and without spaces between the halves of the shell. The plastic is nicely textured similar to the fibre reinforced nylon of CA, but it does feel more like ABS. It doesn't feel as sturdy as CA plastic, but easily as solid as anything from TM.
Accuracy seemed pretty decent using my EOTech 552 replica.
The only real issue with it so far is I find that when switching from auto to semi, the first shot in semi will often be a 2-round burst, followed by single shots. I'd say about 1/2 of the time, it will do this, whereas the other half, it will shoot semi fine. Going from safe to semi doesn't seem to do this and shoots in semi as it's supposed to.
I'll try to do a more thorough review of it when I get the chance, but overall I'm quite happy with it.
On the note of the builder - the battery included is the same battery that came wth my A&K M249, and the metal and paint look very similar to the finish on my M249. I'd say it's a good possibility that this gun could be built by A&K. No way of knowing for sure though. Maybe gearbox internals have some clue, but not about to get into that...
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Last edited by Crunchmeister; November 4th, 2008 at 10:27..
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