Anyone ever seen a hop rubber without the hop patch?

[Badgerlicious]

I wonder if anyone with a stock Specna could shed any light on it.

My friend recently got the MK18 SA-E19, so I might try and get a poke about inside. Weird that it possibly came with a flat hop nub, or possibly a flat hop. Some shop tech hiding parts in guns perhaps? 

 

[concretesnail]

Flat hop rubbers are fairly normal but usually they would be paired with an appropriate nub.

It may be possible that during production one was bagged wrongly or there was a flaw in the molding.

 

[Rogerborg]

My friend recently got the MK18 SA-E19, so I might try and get a poke about inside.

I'd be fascinated to find out if Specna have gone flat hop and not even thought to list it as a feature.

To be honest, I don't view it as one.  I've never seen the point of shoving the whole bucking through the window rather than using a large mound, e.g. a Maple Leaf, or to press on a r-hop or s-hop patch.  In this case, I can see marks and damage that I infer are from pressing the bucking into the window edges (and a standard nub or omega couldn't push it in far enough to even hop a 0.2g).

Weird that it possibly came with a flat hop nub, or possibly a flat hop. Some shop tech hiding parts in guns perhaps? 

Bought as new from PatrolBase, I couldn't see any sign of it having been touched by human  Western hands externally, let alone internally.

It definitely had the flat hop nub, I noticed it because it was so distinctive. I just never made the connection that it might also have a flat hop bucking.  They both went into the bits pile, I've now bagged them up together.

Flat hop rubbers are fairly normal but usually they would be paired with an appropriate nub

As an aftermarket part, it hadn't occurred to me that one might be fitted as stock.  I think it might have been though, as it matches the nub and I can't think where else it could have come from.

 

[Badgerlicious]

I've never seen the point of shoving the whole bucking through the window rather than using a large mound

Well in recent years, availability. ?? You can at least flat hop any bucking you please.