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Update, I now have the blowback unit with me. The problem is that I've tried to fit it to a TM MEU and an Army 1911 and none of the screw holes line up. I'll have to speak to Kim at Volante and find out what I can do with it.
So overall the experience really hasn't been that great. Which is a great shame as I was really excited to try this out.
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I had a reply this morning with a tracking number and saying that it should be with me this week. I can see the parcel was posted on the 4th of Feb so it's just slow postage holding it up now.
I've got no issue with people being busy or whatever and I know it's a small company, it just would have been nice to have the communication. For all I knew nothing had been done/posted so I felt a left in the dark and had no idea that it had actually been dispatched.
At least I know it's on its way so everything will be fine.
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Here's my pretty terrible review for Volante Airsoft.
So I ordered a Stratos BBU for my 1911 directly for Volante Airsoft's website. The order was made on the 14th of January and weirdly there was no kind of communication whatsoever. No email to say my order has been confirmed/shipped etc, just zero communication. I gave it a while, I know things can take time and I was in no rush. Come the 31st of January I'd still had nothing and deceided to ping a message to them on Facebook. After 3 days I got a response saying that the address they had for me was different to the address on my paypal account. Fair enough I thought, pretty crappy that they couldn't actually let me know that at the time but I confirmed my address and left it at that.
We're now over a month since the order was made and still absolutely nothing! I've messaged Kim at Volante again to find out what's going on but I'm seriously thinking this is going to be a paypal dispute.
Just a friendly warning for those thinking about getting a Stratos BBU, don't.
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Always one of my go to overseas retailers. Never had an issue with them.
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That's a shame to hear about the broken mag and things. However Samoon have outstanding customer service so I would hope they'd be able to sort you out with this.
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If you have a way to put the barrel on a lathe, that would be the way to go, so you hone the inner barrel evenly.
I do it the poor mans way, cleaning rod in a dremel!
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Which in turn does what to performance?
From my experience, improved accuracy. I polished the inside of the barrel on my old G&G Scar, after that it was much more accurate. Pegged a guys middle finger as he stuck it over a barricade to tell me to give up shooting at him.
It's pretty easy to do, but as said it's a bit of a bum time wise. I wasn't aware you could buy kits for it. I used T cut for the initial polishing and some Autoglym car wax stuff (I can't even remember what the hell it was!) for finishing it.
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I hate you all. Stupid having to pay off debts and stuff before buying another gun.
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Some shots of me at Ace Combat.
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You can use anything really. I've adjusted the hop using my car key.
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I've never had an issue with adjusting it using a flat head. Is it tight when you reassemble the hop?
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I've heard nothing about bolt carriers breaking. Maybe it's just a ploy to get people to buy them. My bolt has the usual wear and tear, but naff all in terms of anything that would cause it to fail.
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Cheers, it's the FAB defence one. I haven't heard anything about the carbine kit being discontinued, that would make me sad as it really beefs up the rifle.
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The Visionking scopes are fantastic. I'm running one on my G5 and it holds up well to the recoil. Also the G5 has the range which makes use of the scope.
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I'll give them a try. I think I lost more than the instructions last time I was marshalling. It was a hectic day!
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There were, but I can't seem to find them. I've been going through vids and have been adjusting the review as I find them out. It's a pain because I wanted this review to at least be informative damn it!
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Is it a tracer? Is it a chrono? Is it a shot counter that also measures your rate of fire? Is it a computer controlled MOSFET that can be programmed by a PEQ looking box? Is it likely to increase your chances with the ladies?
YES TO ALL OF THE ABOVE! (except the last bit, sadly).
The Xcortech X3300W is an all in one bundle of all those airsoft bits you probably don't need.
The X3300W is made up of 3 parts. The barrel extension, PEQ style control box and a plug and play MOSFET.
First Impressions:
When opening the box, you're greeted by your wallet lightening new toy. You'll find the components wrapped in bubble wrap and other protective wrappings. There is an instruction manual so if you can't figure out what you're doing, you can always read that. Sadly, I can't seem to find my manual so there's bits I will come back to at a later date.
Barrel Extension:
I'm not calling it a suppressor as it doesn't suppress.
The barrel extension body is made of metal with a plastic cap on both ends. The front cap turns in place but doesn't unscrew. The rear cap has the power button and is what you unscrew to get to the batteries. The power button lights green when first turned on and will occasionally blink to let you know that it's still turned on. The tracer unit flashes when the unit is turned off, presumably discharge the flash. The threads for mounting onto a 14mm clockwise thread are metal. Overall, the barrel extension is well made and solid. The unit requires 4x AAA batteries to run.
Control unit:
The control unit is very PEQ'ish in appearance, but that's about as far as it goes. On top you have a knob (stop snickering in the back you lot!), which lets you choose what mode the unit displays. The settings, in order, are Settings (ST), Off (O), Shot counter (UP),Ammo counter (DN), Chrono (SPD) and Rate of Fire (ROF). On the front you have another knob (stop it!) which you can use to adjust settings and the brightness of the display. The whole unit is plastic, bar the screws. It doesn't feel fragile and looks well made, but be aware that it is plastic and may not take kindly to abuse. The unit takes 2x AA batteries to run. The unit simply clamps onto a RIS rail. The unit wobbles a touch on my GHK G5, but that's nothing a small bit of leccy tape won't sort out.
The settings function gives you the following:
FLA - Turn tracer on/off
CNT - Adjust ammo counter limit
UARN - Allows you to set when the ammo counter starts flashing to show you're low on ammo. This can be adjusted between no flashing and 100 rounds left.
AEG.B - Can't tell.
UNIT - Again, no idea until I can get another manual
APo - As above
Eco - Eco mode, dims the display when nothings happening
tts - Shows the total amount of rounds fired through unit. This can be reset back to zero.
ScU - MOSFET settings
rst - Reset to factory settings
Again, I apologise for the lack of info on the features.
The shot counter does what it says on the tin, shoot a round and it will increase the number on the screen by one. The ammo counter is programmable to allow you to set the number of rounds in a magazine so you know exactly how many shots you have before you reload. These settings can be reset by pushing and holding the adjustment knob on the front for a couple of seconds. The chrono setting obviously allows you to chrono the gun, fire a shot and your FPS will be shown on the display. I compared the chrono to both a Chrony F1 and an Element chrono and the readings were spot on between all three. Rate of fire will calculate your ROF after you fire a burst through the barrel extension. The results are displayed on screen in rounds per minute.
Unfortunately, I cannot comment on the MOSFET as I currently don't have any guns using tamiya connectors, but once I change the connectors to deans, I will review the MOSFET and it's settings.
Overall I'm happy with the unit. It brings a lot of features into quite a small package. It's well put together and thought out and gives you something different to utilize during your game day. The ammo counter is great for those running low/mid caps or gas guns. The adjustable plug and play MOSFET gives AEG owners a lot of versatility and can easily be adjusted.
I bought this from RDX Tactical who are getting more in stock. It set me back £145, which is a fair price considering the features you get.
If you guys have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them. In the mean time, I'm going to find the *fruitcage* manual or read up the features online.
Edited to add info.
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Indeed, I think the ones Milspec Solutions sell have the 1j bolt as standard as mine wasn't running hot at all, even on a very warm day. Now to save up for that carbine kit and mags!
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I took mine marshalling with me yesterday. These things are insane! Mine was chronoing at 320 on a warm day with Abbey Brut gas. I stuck an H nub in there and it's sending .28's miles! I had a slight issue where the barrel wasn't straight out of the box, but that's been fixed now. Overall I'm very impressed. Works much better than my Bomber M16 which is doing 200 fps.
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Apologies for the image, but man lacks a decent camera, even in this day and age! Bomber M16A2 with M203. It's the sex apart from it shoots BBs a whopping 10 feet so far due to lack of use!
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Poo flakes!, I read this after committing myself to a Bomber M16A2.
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Just bought the second to last one off GBF. £31 posted.
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A quick and dirty pic of the brothers. How the chrome slide didn't give me away last time I used it, I don't know.
I'm tempted to take off the wings both sides of the beavertail on the 17. The left one interferes with using the slide release as it sits right where my thumb wants to go.
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My MP9 never was 100% without the disconnector, hence the tales of woe and despair that I kept posting.
I can't remember exactly what it was since it was a long time ago, but it just never performed as well without it. I don't know why if everybody else's worked fine.
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I'm in contact with him now about it. I honestly hate posting up negative stuff, but I was pretty frustrated. It's being sorted now though so that's the main thing.