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Tokyo Marui H&K MC51 Review
review by SykoBika images by Arnie
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First Impressions: Well, it’s not going to win any beauty contests, is it? The bastard child of two of H&K’s finest weapons, it combines the power of the G3 with the handling of the MP5 family. Cooked up in the US by Bill Fleming, a Level II weapons dealer of 'Fleming Firearms', it fulfils Special Forces’ desire for “an MP5 with more stopping power”. This desire was fuelled by the fact that more and more terrorists are wearing body armour, that the standard 9mm round can’t penetrate. It feels well screwed together, and fairly hefty too. A nice comfortable size to carry around all day.
Why the MC51? I bought this just over 2 years ago, as my first AEG purchase. It basically came down to cost and power. The family already had an AK47, and I didn’t really want something from the M16 family (something to do with spindly receiver units). That left Heckler & Koch. I couldn’t afford a G3, at over £300, and the MP5 only had small mags.
The MC seemed perfect. It uses 500rd Hicap mags, as opposed to the MP5’s 200rd. And it was £250 including a battery, which sort of swayed me. It is also fairly rare, I personally have only seen a couple of others, probably because it is SO ugly! At nearly a foot shorter than a G3, it can be wielded with ease, especially with one hand. It also came with an EG700 motor as standard, better than came as standard in the MP5’s available at that time.
Power Of two sorts. The firepower of this weapon is pretty good, better than any standard MP5 I’ve used. It chews through ammo rapidly, making good use of its 500rd magazine capacity. While the RoF is quite high (for a standard weapon), the range is fairly poor (see “After 10,000 rounds”). The short barrel does not give huge accuracy either, with a tendency to spray rounds in a wider spread than desirable. The grouping is not too bad though.The real problem is electrical power. The battery compartment is in the foregrip, and it is hard to get a decent size battery to fit (it came with a 600mAh battery), plus the foregrip is quite tricky to remove and replace.
However, all is not lost, as the fixed butt from the G3 series slots straight on, and the weapon is prewired to take batteries here too. This solves the electricity problem, as 3000mAh batteries will fit no problem, it also improves accuracy slightly, making the weapon more solid in your shoulder. It does compromise the handling slightly, it doesn’t point round corners as easily as it used to with the stock locked fully in. Alternatively, you can use FIRST’s foregrip, which allows the retention of the sliding stock, it is quite ugly and boxy however (would you really notice on this gun though?)
Don’t buy it - if you are fashion conscious, it looks really ugly!
Don’t buy it - for woodland combat, unless you intend serious mods to improve range
Do buy it - if you want a near perfect urban/CQB weapon
I tried to use it in the woods at Combat South, and became frustrated at its inability to hit long range targets. I gave up and bought an HK21 LSW from a friend, and have loved and used that instead. Fortunately, all the kit from the HK21 is compatible with the MC, so it is well stocked for mags and a scope. It has been retired to my CQB/Urban weapon, for which it is undoubtedly much better suited. Unfortunately, until recently, I haven’t had much time to do CQB/Urban, so it has remained relatively unused. Shame on me…
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Appearance |
2/5 |
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Build Quality |
4/5 |
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Performance |
4/5 |
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Value for Money |
3/5 limited ability |
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Overall Potential |
5/5 in the right situation |
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This page last edited: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:49 PM
