Mtndew

Well I got to fire mine, though only indoors at a target 20ft away so I have no idea about accuracy. I like the report, it's not very whiney and the blowback action is very neat. My single fire is pretty much non-functioning from the get-go. I can shoot it in single if the mag is not in but when it's in it just wont shoot. Auto works wonderful and while the rof is not super high it's plenty. The mag fed very well and the blowback worked as advertised. sometimes the bolt would not go all the way back forward after it shot but this did not affect the next shot. I did have an iss

In that case your correct. In the states The dboys full metal versions start in the $130 range (thats like what, 70ish pounds? darn keyboard does not have that cool symbol) and go up from there. While I could not find the AKS74U here in the states I can find the unicorn or the cyma 035 which are very similar in quality and build for about the same price as the Army R85 ($150 or ~80 pounds). For me the longer barrel is what makes the biggest difference. The full metal echo1 AK comes the closest to the Army in terms of barrel length but the build quality is not supposed to be as good t

I read your review (the link supplied did not work, had to find it on the site) and while I have seen some of what you saw I'm not sure about your final conclusion that there are better guns to be had. Sure if you pay more but for $150 I can't find anything better built out there. I am going to be doing alot of testing firing this weekend but my initial look over showed a gun that seems to layed out very well (barrel looks to be straight) and has a great feel to it. I am going to leave the blowback operational but will be looking into disabling the pre-compression feature using the G&am

Right now I only play outside in friends property so I'm not too worried about single not working well but if you are couldn't you do the fixes list in that G&G pdf to stop it from pre-compressing the spring? I want to leave the blowback on but disabling the pre-compression might be a good idea. I'm still curious about the battery though...

I just received mine and besides the normal issue of the dust cover not flipping down (fixed that with an exacto knife) it all seems to be in good shape. That pdf suggests disabling the blowback but that was one of the reasons I purchased this gun, and based on far easts review he was able to get 20k+ rounds through it with the blowback on no problem. My one concern is the battery. Has anyone tried this with a standard SubC size large battery? I ask because I am having a hard time finding a replacement 4/5SC battery and the ones I do find are pretty expensive. And one last really

So I have pretty much read all 54 pages of this thread but I still have a few questions, especially for those who have there R85 in the US. I am looking at ordering one of these from pointact ($153, seems higher than initially but not too bad still) but does anyone know if all those now shipper have the welded on cocking lever? What about the hop-up alignment issues, does any of the US guys or the UK guys who have gotten there gun recently still see alignment problems? I am not comfortable at all opening up gearboxes though the fact that this one is split means I might be able to