Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

Lyndication said:
Being a first batch VFC AK74M is actually a negative as well. They had bolt bounce issues that were corrected in subsequent batches.

It has an aluminium nozzle, so it's someone who doesn't know anything about teching GBBRs.

The parts are all 5ku and Cyma, so they're cheap and don't add up to the markup.

This should be like, half this cost.
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Why would the aluminium nozzle be bad ? Sorry I know sweet fuck all 😂
 
frazer900 said:
Why would the aluminium nozzle be bad ? Sorry I know sweet fuck all 😂
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Aluminium nozzles are known to smash bb's when feeding in the chamber. Also I had it personally when I tried one years ago when they where a new thing and it smashed the hop chamber to bits on my we l85. With a plastic nozzle they are designed to fail before anything else and be a cheap inexpensive replacement part.
 
It went quiet for six months then just popped back up.

Odd if nothing else. Wonder what happened in the meantime.
 
Colin Allen said:
I am struggling to get £500 out of this; that would imply an "as new" value of at least £700, more likely £800.

Full kit and airsoft gun

For sale Gear  Full kit and airsoft gun

Full airsoft kit including the rifle (lancer tactical gen 3)
£400.00
or best offer
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I see £500 having been spent, especially when not shopping around can see you spending more than you need to.

Personally, I don't see that as a starter kit. Suitable footwear plus the rental package you get from a site is what you need to get started and that's a lot less money. Everything else in the kit is what you would consider when you're more serious and committed to playing but even then, I think loadouts are too personal for this to be worth much to anyone.

The bag and gloves look more used that Bonnie Blue so I'd say the £250 valuation is much more realistic.
 
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The GHK AK series was expensive used for a while because there was nothing else that was quite as good. Now the VFC models are out, and are great, the demand for GHKs has really dropped but people still seem to want peak demand prices for them.
 
GHK V2 AKs were decent once you fixed all the issues in them with aftermarket, but late V2s started to have absolutely awful quality control issues. Completely bent guns, things just breaking, awful.

They did a big song and dance for their V3 update but while it fixed a bunch of design issues, it didn't address others plus the quality control failures were still unfixable. This led to the V3 AKs being shunned for ages because they were just unusable.

In the meantime, it became a valuable thing to say a GHK V2 AK was "pre QC" because there weren't really good alternatives. Some genuinely were, but suddenly every V2 GHK AK was mysteriously a pre 2019 golden QC gun with upcharge. Desperate people started buying.

Thing is, this got mythologised as the V2s being great but they never were. I have a friend with two of them and as much as they're really nicely made guns in some ways, they're weirdly bad in others. Partly it's the industry moving on and doing better, inducing GHK themselves with their V3.5s, and partly it's that they had to buy a lot of aftermarket to get there. Hop unit, barrel, bucking, bolt carrier, nozzle, fire control, basically the entire bloody gun.

Anyway yeah that upcharging for a GHK AK is a joke. Get a TM or VFC.
 
Yeh I had two GHK AKs, mine were lovely but still required some fettling to get to perform decently, so I got bored of it and just bought a TM AKM,
 
Mtemprell said:
Aluminium nozzles are known to smash bb's when feeding in the chamber. Also I had it personally when I tried one years ago when they where a new thing and it smashed the hop chamber to bits on my we l85. With a plastic nozzle they are designed to fail before anything else and be a cheap inexpensive replacement part.
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Ah thanks buddy yeah il steer well clear of those for my saiga lol
 
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