The Big-Out M203 Launcher is a fairly new product, and as far as I know, I'm one of the first lucky people to get my hands on it :) Opening the parcel Ripping it all open, I find the following contents:
Fitting instructions There's no English on the instructions, but fortunately the pictures are fairly easy to follow ;) One thing I should note here is that the whole thing is made from metal. The only non-metal part in it is the rubber washer. This product is as solid as they come. Putting it together Preparing the Big Out Launcher for use is a fairly easy (if thumb damaging) process. Firstly, the grenade holder unscrews into 2 parts. The top part slides down over the moscart shell so that the thread extends past the bottom of the shell. Now, this is where the thumb damaging comes into play. I'm not sure if the tolerances on my launcher or shell were slightly out, but it took me about 20 mins of pushing and cursing before I got the top of the holder pushed down over the shell. Once on, there is absolutely no way your shell is going to fall out accidently.
Next, you lay the rubber washer inside the holder so that the metal disk in the middle of it lines up with the firing pin in the bottom of the shell.
Then you just screw the two halves of the grenade holder together.
The next step is to remove the flash hider from the end of your barrel, and attach the muzzle connector. The Launcher is available with either a positive or negative thread, so check you order the right one for you. There is no small grub screw in the bottom of the adapter to help keep it in place as with the original M4 flash hider that I removed.
The connector isn't quite as stylish as the M4 flash hider, but all in all, it's not bad looking. Finally, slide the grenade holder over the muzzle. There are some ball bearings that snap into the recess on the muzzle connector so it won't slide off. They have little hex screws on the outside, so you can adjust the pressue if you need to.
That's about it. Nothing too tricky, you just need a bit of force to get the top of the holder over the shell.
In use Once the grenade is fitted, switch to single shot and squeeze the trigger. The result is an erruption of gas and BBs from the business end :) The other thing that is definately satisfying is the kick back you get when the grenade goes off. It's much like the recoil from a GBB, but it's something that you don't get when firing an AEG normally. Once you've fired the grenade, you will have a loose BB rattling around in your barrel, so make sure you tip it out before firing your next shot. The BB remains intact though, so you won't have lots of little shards to worry about. The grenade slips on and off the muzzle in a second, so it shouldn't compromise you in battle. The main downside is that the grenade holder is such a tight fit that you aren't able to easily replace the shell with a fresh one after you've fired it. To reload the shell you will need to remove the grenade from the gun, unscrew the two halves of the grenade holder and take out the rubber washer. You need to do this to gain access to the firing pin and reset the grenade. So that turns it into pretty much a one shot weapon until you can get back to the safe zone and reload it without too much trouble. It
does add a little bit of weight to the end the gun, but not
too much. If you're concerned about barrel wobble, you may not
want to leave the grenade attached for long periods of time.
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