GnGArmament Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 (edited) I took advantage of ASGI's 10% off Memorial Day sale, bringing this gun to a grand total of 229.5$, and for that price, who can resist? Alright, when I came home from school today I was greeted with the gun I have been anxiously waiting for about 1 and a half weeks for. First Impressions: The first thing I noticed when I picked up this gun is that is quite heavy (Approx. 10 lbs), but that is to be expected, it's an M14! I ordered the fake wood version due to financial reasons, but the fake wood is just as convincing as the real wood on the Veteran. The bolt catch is 100% functional, and when released gives a satisfying "CLANK!" The hop-up is a drum style hop-up also seen in TM style AUG's. This combined with a G&G's stock 6.04 mm tightbore barrel should give it well above average accuracy and range. I am not able to say the exact accuracy now, but the groupings at 10m are very close together. (Approx. 1 inch) One downside is that this M14 is not compatible at all with a TM M14. The magazines are also different, leaving G&G to charge a pretty penny for aftermarket magazines, although I did read somewhere that MAG had some G&G M14 magazines in the making. Opening up the butt plate reveals a large tamiya connector. The stock can hold up to an 8.4V large battery. 9.6V batteries I am not sure of. One let down is that the heat shield is shiny and has that plasticky feeling G&G was nice enough to include trades with a serial number which I'm not positive if it's unique or not Some misc. shots Overall I am fairly impressed. I only have noticed 3 small downsides: 1)The heat shield doesn't look or feel good at all. Apparently real heat shields can fit so I might pick up one 2) The magazine needs to be tapped on the bottom in order to feed properly. Most likely needs some breaking in. 3) Small type batteries make a raquet when in the butt stock, easily fixed with styerfoam. Other then that, I am very pleased with my order. All parts that should be metal are, and it seems to be shooting very nicely. I will take it to it's first game tomorrow so I'll be able to tell you the exact FPS and true accuracy soon. Any questions? Feel free to ask Edited June 10, 2010 by GnGArmament Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TbirdX Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 Nice short review. Be sure to update us on the FPS please. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GnGArmament Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Took it out for a test run yesterday. It chronographs at 298 FPS +/- 2 FPS. A little disappointed in that, as I expected it to be a bit higher, but its nothing a M120 spring can't fix. The trigger response with an 8.4V mini is laughably bad, so I stuck a 9.6V large in and now the response is much better. Shots with .25G G&G BB's are almost a guaranteed human sized target hit at 120 feet. Only other thing I can really think of is the gearbox sounds whiny like an ARMY L85. For 229$, it's a pretty fair deal from G&G considering the TM is almost double that price for US buyers. If I were to rate it out of 10, I would probably give it a 7 or 7.5 due to some tweaking that needs to be done to get it at it's full potential. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TbirdX Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Ta for the update. I found with my own Cyma M14 that the 8.4V was pretty darn poor. Likewise, the 9,6V improved things no end. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bobbydodo3 Posted August 15, 2010 Report Share Posted August 15, 2010 Out of intrest have you had a chance to compair it with a CYMA m14? If you have could you possibly give me some information about there range, FPS and accuracy when compaired with each other? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Man with the multicam Posted August 15, 2010 Report Share Posted August 15, 2010 Out of intrest have you had a chance to compair it with a CYMA m14? If you have could you possibly give me some information about there range, FPS and accuracy when compaired with each other? I own both a G&G m14 VET and a Cyma m14 that is sort of broken at the moment. The internals on the Cyma are TERRIBLE I would never pay for a gun like that. Well the G&G has LiPo ready internals, 6.04 barrel, and it has overcome all of TM's terrible design issues on their m14s. Hope I helped. Range and FPS wise of course he G&G is alot better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Man with the multicam Posted August 15, 2010 Report Share Posted August 15, 2010 Out of intrest have you had a chance to compair it with a CYMA m14? If you have could you possibly give me some information about there range, FPS and accuracy when compaired with each other? I own both a G&G m14 VET and a Cyma m14 that is sort of broken at the moment. The internals on the Cyma are TERRIBLE I would never pay for a gun like that. Well the G&G has LiPo ready internals, 6.04 barrel, and it has overcome all of TM's terrible design issues on their m14s. Hope I helped. Range and FPS wise of course he G&G is alot better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DRAGON64 Posted August 16, 2010 Report Share Posted August 16, 2010 I own the G&G M14, SOC16 model, and I love it. I only have two pit-falls, one as mentioned above, is the 'cheapy' feeling heat shield...at least on the SOC16, the heat shield is not shiney, and comes with a nice texture. And two, through no fault of the rifle, it fires poorly on an 8.4V battery. Trigger response is much better with a 9.6V. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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