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Golden Eagle M870 Tactical in Tan. This spent 40 days in UK customs and I got it earlier this week. Initial impression is that it's well made and it can handle Guarder black gas. It comes with 3 shells which work well although the labels will fall off shortly.
Gas tank seems well made and I have a slight leak if I push down on the stock but I think this will be cured by tightening the screws in the stock. The only thing I have added is a TM shell holder. The paint will chip and flake off quite easily I think but as a working gas shotgun it's very good. I have a few TM M870's and I think this is a good cheaper option for anyone on a budget.
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MightyJebus, how would you compared the Guarder and KJW alloy slides to each other?
Guarder are a bit more refined in the detail and seem to be make of better quality alloy (or maybe just made in a better workshop). Both are durable enough but can snap if dropped from height. Both are pretty cheap if you can find them in stock somewhere and the only thing that would make me chose a Guarder over a KJW would be the more accurate markings on the Guarder one.
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TM Glock 17 with Guarder metal slide, H3K Gen 4 frame, Doctor sight and new shape Crimson Trace laser.
be interesting to see if someone starts making the Gen5 frames.
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Tan TM HK416D
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I think it will be possible to swap the trigger for a Guarder one.
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a pair of deltas
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Secutor have released a GBB pistol called the Gladius 17. This is a modified glock 17 and comes in 4 flavours. I bought the grey version from Combat South and currently they have all 4 models in stock.
The GBB pistol comes with a CO2 magazine however it is also compatible with TM/WE style Glock 17 magazines and I've tried this and it works but more on that later.
It actually comes in quite a nice box and the pistol is securely held in place by cut out foam.
Opening the box reveals the pistol, magazine, instructions, spare cylinder and spare CO2 O ring for the magazine.
As you can see from the pictures below the pistol comes with a cutout slide, stippled frame and extended controls. The Barrel comes with a -14mm threaded adapter for the addition of the sound suppressor of your choice.
The outer barrel has some nice markings on top.
Now for a more in depth technical look at this pistol.
The pistol comes with a sticker on it claiming 1J so it's ready for UK skirmishing out the box. I fitted a fresh CO2 bulb to the magazine and loaded 23 0.2g bb's into the magazine and took it to the chrono. Some of you might notice the bulb goes 180 degrees to the normal way bulbs usually go into a CO2 magazine. This is because there is no direct flow from the bulb to the pistol and instead the CO2 fills a space around the bulb inside the magazine. This turns out to be a very good idea as there is very little cooldown (max 10-15 FPS over 3 mags worth of bb's)
As mentioned above I can get 3 full magazines off before I have to change bulb. Even the last shot was only about 15 FPS down on the first shots from the fresh bulb. The average chrono was about 345 FPS with 1 high of 355 and a low of 330.
I should mention at this point that the blow back is stronger than any other Glock that I have. It has a real snap to it.
So it's firing around 345 but some people might want to run it slightly lower at their sites and the good new is there are 2 ways to do this.
One option is to use a TM or WE Glock 17 magazine. I tried a TM magazine and the FPS averaged around 280 on red gas and I could get 1 magazines worth of bb's off without a problem. I think using a WE magazine will improve this slightly to about 290 but I can't find mine right now to check. *EDIT* found a WE mag and it was averaging 285 on red gas.
The other option is a little bit more involving but I quite like the fact that Secutor have included a spare cylinder with the pistol. One is for winter (345 in the summer) and the other is for summer and averages 300 FPS. I used a set of calipers and both cylinder and nozzle holes are the same size however the release valves are different and this is how the FPS is being controlled. Fitting the new cylinder is pretty straight forward and all you do is remove the slide, remove the outer barrel and spring guide from the slide then remove 1 screw and the BBU slides out (try not to lose the spring!).
Slide the old cylinder/nozzle of and pop on the new one and you are good to go.
Internally all the parts look to be TM compatible so if something breaks a Guarder/TM part should fit.
The pistol features an extended magazine release, extended slide stop and threaded outer barrel with has a -14mm thread, The trigger has an additional safety catch which when engaged stops the trigger from being pulled and will stop any accidental firing.
The top of the slide has 2 positions for the rear sight and this will allow a Doctor sight to be fitted to the slide. There are 2 screw holes already in the top of the slide ready for a Doctor sight to be screwed into. The only issue I had with this is the screws I got with my Doctor sight are too thick so I'll need to find replacements if I want to fit a doctor sight to this slide.
I'll finish this review with a couple of observations and thoughts.
The grey frame is painted and is pretty hard wearing but I think over time the black original frame will start to show through.
I was reaching out to 40 meters accurately using .25's but I think a 9 ball rubber would make this reach out slightly further by lifting the bb's a bit more. The hop unit and all its parts are TM/Guarder compatible.
When I used my calipers on the inner barrel I found it to be 5.9 on both mechanical and digital calipers which I can only assume is wrong. The inner barrel seems to be stainless steel and looks good quality.
The sights use a U and dot set up and there are night sights which will illuminate if you shine a torch on them.
The slide and outer barrel are metal.
Do I like it? yup a lot.
Should you buy one? Do you want a funky Glock 17 which is full metal, can be used year round, can have a Doctor sight installed and TM compatible? then yes you want one of these.
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can't remember but it's one of the chinese clones which comes with a metal slide.
talking of metal slides Guarder have released a metal 22 slide.
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Gen2, Gen3 and Gen4 Glock frames
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yup..check out rainbow8
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Glock 17 Gen 2 frame
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added an EPS stock and rewired because I hate the NGRS battery setup.
I'll add a BTC when they get released again.
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swapped the rail for the 10.5 inch SMR rail. I'm waiting on some rail panels and the nut bolt but I think it looks good already.
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got rid of my VFC only to but another TM EBB.
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swapped my VFc 416 for Blaze's CZ805 Bren. nice bit of kit.
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Not sure where this one fits so I'll try here.
S&T E11 Blaster and a 3D printed Stormtrooper helmet.
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VFC AK74 with some real Soviet wooden furniture refinished in the Ukraine in some interesting tiger stripe camouflage.
And the other end of the scale.....A SRC AK47S in a very fetching Gold plate.
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2 x TM Breacher with Angry Gun gas stock tube
TM KSG
TM M870 full stock
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Finally got my TM 416C back up and running after a snapped lower receiver and some dodgy wiring. Now fitted with a BTC Spectre and 7.4V LIPO fits inside the front grip.
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Is it true that a real stock is a drop in fit without any modifications?
yeah mate..straight drop in
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Any signs on what this body might be based on? I don't recognise the markings at all (in the airsoft world), do you think this might be a real steel receiver? I doubt CTW manufactured their own steel body right?
It looks like Celcius made a folded steel receiver. It doesn't match any other airsoft receiver I have seen. It could be real steel with modifications but it's probably cheaper to make their own as the template is free.
Does your selector work properly? Mine shoots in semi most of the time but it jumps into burst sometimes. I've checked that the holes in the gear are clean, but it keeps doing it.
Also, about the fire-stop, you want the spring to be extended enough to keep the screw from getting caught by the magnet all the time. The pressure from the magazine will push it up no matter how strong the spring is anyway. The whole little metallic flange there is quite a let down in an otherwise good design.
My selector seems fine at the moment. Which selector board did you use? the etiny one or the supplied Celcius one?
The problem I get is when the flange is up it should get held by the magnet but 95% of the time it doesn't. I've moved the little spring into different places but still the same. I'm looking to magnetise the little silver plate by placing it on a systema motor to increase the magnetic strength which I'm hoping will fix the issue.
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I forgot to mention the markings are for a Izhmuth AKM made in 1969.
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surprising good shotgun for the price. As I suspected I fixed the leak by tightening the screw in the stock. It chucks 3 BB's over 50 meters on Black gas and the spread isn't too bad. The shells pop out really fast, unlike some sluggish shotguns I've used. I might get another one in a different configuration.