Dimitri MdP
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Finally available in the US through Evike 😄
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Awesome review. The choice of an o-ring instead of cup seal is where it shows their lack of experience with GBBs. I'm pretty sure this gun would greatly benefit from a cup seal, and a somewhat lighter hammer spring while we're at it.
Giving a second thought on that, IIRC the Makarov nozzle is also 15mm, so maybe we could adapt WE piston head and shaft to the Raptor Grach. -
wonder if RPK-74 (45rnd) mag shells could fit the WE AK-74 mag internals..
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32 minutes ago, NonEx said:
Not exactly true. I managed to fit the WE AK-47 PMC magazine internals in an RS MAGPUL MOE AK 47 magazine. Not sure I would recommend it as it is a pain in the *albatross* to get done. But it can be done.
I assumed we were talking about the 74 mags (the plastic ones), as those are the ones that break easily, as well as the ones that are much longer than real mags.
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None. Your best bet is reinforcing the standard shells.
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Fair enough, that's why I emphasised that the rentals allows us to test a gun at a much faster pace than a regular user would.
Most users probably won't gent any of the issues until about a year of use, except for the mag catch. That's the only big fail on the gun, and should be evident for anyone that can get their hands on those mags. Really, really sharp metal edges engaging a tiny plastic surface should be an obvious no-go.Other than that, it's true that there are many guns with less durability, but there's also many that last 20x more.
I guess comrade Diatlov can say it clearer:
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Well we got some of those for the rental field and results are not good at all.
Yup, it's a snappy gun... being a really light weight slide. But the recoil, accuracy and range are "meh" at best.
The real issue is with durability. At the rental field, guns go through about a 500 rounds every day. This allow us to test guns at a much faster place than any normal user would. At that pace, the humble WE G17s are lasting for 2 years before showing any failure, which normally is the sear, right where it engages with the trigger bar.
The ICSs lasted less than a month. The most obnoxious design flaw is the plastic magazine catch that engages really sharp edges on the mags, and furthermore, with a really small surface area, so they fail really fast. Other broken parts have been hammers, seals, and sears.
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On 2/11/2019 at 10:58 AM, Got Wood? said:
Temperature was 4°c, windy, and wet. The rifle could reliably pump out half a mag with individual or double taps, with rests in between. Any more than that and it struggled. It’s fair to expect this given the price point and the weather in my opinion. I did nothing to warm or protect the mags from the cold.
At that sort of temperature you should be using at least Map Pro / propylene or even black gas
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43 minutes ago, PureSilver said:
Pretty much the only thing you can guarantee is that they're going to buy barely any of them, just like pretty much everything else in the post-Soviet era
The 74M is post-soviet and is the most common rifle in any deployment, the previous AK-74, AKS-74 and most other variants can be seen a lot in training but they are long gone from actual service.
The plan is to modernise most of those guns to the 74M3 spec (which is something airsoft manufacturers could easily do as well) and get any new production in the AK-12 / 15 variant. They are already making their way to the units and are gonna be the most common in a decade. This is no AN-94.
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5 hours ago, ninja master of coffee said:
it's probable they're biding their time though given that it hasn't been properly adopted into Russian military service so the chance of design changes is fairly high
Wut? They have been officially adopted by the Russian military, and chances of changes at this point is close to zero
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I've removed the side rail for the RPK project, so had to replace the rivet with a round head screw and two nuts. There was no way in hell I could get the proper rivets and tooling in my area.
Then I filled the screw slot with epoxy and painted it. Looks pretty much like a rivet. -
10 hours ago, kazuchan said:
Can we bring more fps/ Joules with heavier bb ( like 0.28 or 0.3g ) or more power gas ( 20% stronger like red can gas )?
nope and nope. As long as you keep it in the normal operating range (80 to 160PSI), gas pressure has no influence on FPS. And the gun is not a joule creeper with such a short barrel.
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On 11/20/2018 at 10:38 AM, renegadecow said:
I've observed wobble on pretty much every rifle I've handled with some being only a few months old. Sometimes though the kind of handguard installed can either help hide or make the wobble more pronounced but you can still observe it easily enough looking down the sights while pushing on the handguard/barrel side to side.
Weird, just checked ours with the handguards off and there's literally zero wobble, and they have about 4 years of use. The only one that has is because the owner pushed the pin in the wrong direction + he's using a RPK-length, full steel barrel extension. Which I'm totally gonna fix with this technique, so thanks!
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8 hours ago, renegadecow said:
Does the crazy jet barrel (84mm?) line up flush with the outer?
It does, but bear in mind the pressure relief sleeve takes 13mm out of the usable barrel length, and it's a 6.04... so the FPS are just about (o even slightly below than) that of the OEM barrel with no extension
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A silly mod / upgrade than can help with accuracy: prevent any movement in the inner barrel by shimming the space between the inner and outer with a cut out from an old bucking.
In the pic I'm using a Ra-Tech 84mm x 6.01 inner barrel, as that's the longest one and tightest that fits
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Thanks! I've never seen such problem develop in our 74Us, but our custom-build "WE" RPK has some wobble on the barrel. Will try this fix asap
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On 11/17/2018 at 2:23 PM, renegadecow said:
Just the pin through the trunnion but it's advisable to drill and tap the trunnion for a grub screw VFC style to mitigate barrel wobble.
Any pics?
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No aftermarket outers for these.
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Then it's either a worn out nozzle to bolt carrier oring, or the nozzle is disconnecting prematurely from the bucking. That should be easy to check for, just pull the charging handle and see if it stays coupled to the chamber for a couple cm then snaps back, or it just wants to follow the bolt carrier
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On 11/5/2018 at 5:11 PM, Zereck said:
Currently I have the issue of the gun freezing fast. You can feel the gun shooting weaker one-by-one until it just spews all the gas out.
Maybe first-gen mags? (the ones with lower gas routes)
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18 hours ago, HamletV said:
So,do you think it would not be necessary to buy a fancy piston head?
Certainly. Nothing beats the OEM cup seals when it comes to the 0-100 PSI use, no matter how hi-tech they look.
18 hours ago, HamletV said:Here where i live propane is ver y difficult to find, so, i can only get G.G., right now I'm using the H&K power gas, and i found this gas has a looooots of silicone oil making a mess inside the bucking, but the swiss arms gas is way better, more dry, more gas in it, i don'tknow it there's another brand like the swiss arms (more gas, less oil)
I get what you mean, pretty much the only brand of green gas we have readily available here is drenched in silicone oil, which makes a mess in the bucking and inner barrel totally screwing accuracy.
Maybe you can find Puff Dino gas, that's really low in silicone content which gives it a great performance.
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5 hours ago, HamletV said:
My gun comes with a leaking magazine, i search for a good tutorial in youtube and some guys said that to prevent any gas leaking from the mag, you'll need to seal the mag with silicone gasket, so i did that very carefully! and the remedy was worse than the disease!, now i can't fill the mag fully, before it was able to fill like 12 secons and now only 7, but the leaking has stoped xd!
Unless you really filled the mag with gasket, the different capacity might be just due to air trapped inside. Try purgin the mags, by "filling" them for a second while pressing the release valve. Repeat a couple times with the gas can nozzle up and a couple with in the regular position. That should flush all the uncompressible nitrogen out and give you the 12s loading back
5 hours ago, HamletV said:--better pistón head for more efficiency( airsoftengenuty has one made of carbon fibre)
That's ... incorrect, to put it in soft words. The cup type piston head they have from factory is the best. There's simply no way around it, they seal perfectly under pressure, go smooth as silk after release. Despite quite some fancy piston heads out there that looks like might work better, the original design is superior to all of them
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better get a OEM nozzle from KYAirsoft.com.
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1 hour ago, ST19AG_WGreymon said:
Anyone here having issues with the nozzle breaking?
Nope, we have a dozen on our team and no issues whatsoever. One of them (blue nozzle, from the first "WE USA" batch) came out of the box with the nozzle already cracked, but we replaced it with a regular WE nozzle and it's been running strong for 3 years since.
Is your gun breaking nozzles? If so, which part of the nozzle?
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Now other important stuff:
We've been experimenting for quite a while to get these things to shoot at an acceptable FPS without using the extended inner barrel + suppressor.
Best result so far is running RA-Tech's 6.01 x 84mm inner barrel (it's the longest one that will fit the outer), Maple Leaf Decepticon bucking + Maple Leaf I-key (glued to the hop arm). Everything else is OEM (forget about aftermarket floating valves and piston heads.... all those fancy things can't perform as good as OEM's)
We are getting super consistent 300FPS, which is still relatively far from the 330 local limit, but much more acceptable than the ~245FPS they shoot out of the box. Accuracy and range are unbelievably good, as is the +/-1 consistency, so I think we'll keep them that way
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Raptor MP-443 PYa "Grach"
in Pistols (Gas)
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Who sells it? 'cause I contacted Raptor at Facebook and they forwarded me to Octagon Airsoft... whom doesn't seem to have it in stock yet.
Honestly super disappointed with the gun I got, I was expecting it to be bad, but not THAT bad. I have high hopes for the V3 kit, but also having a hard time getting my hands on it