Are they serious? - Bolster Armouries 'Advanced' M4s and HiCapas

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Looks like Patrolbase is taking a leaf from Dave at DCA's book on how to con *ahem* make money out of Airsofters...

£1.4K for this:

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A suped-up Krytac. Doesn't even have the TM appeal. You could build/buy a very nice HPA setup for waaay less money.

Then there's this - £1.2K for a Hi-Capa:

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I would expect either gun to be able a gnat's bollock at 100 paces for that kind of money.

 
I saw their FB post about these making a big song and dance about them being hand made. I didn’t realise how much they were taking the piss price wise 

 
Genuinely expected them to be about £400-500 give or take after reading what they had to say about it being custom made...but 1400 quid for what is essentially the Krytac REC7 upper/lower/handguard set and a bunch of overly expensive PTS/Magpul shite on it.

And while custom hi-capas can easily go for that price it's a total piss take for them to actually make something like that, the type of person to spend that much money on a custom built pistol is going to want something exactly the way they want it. Not £1200 worth of random CNC'd shite.

 
I just looked at these and as someone who likes to tweak and fine tune my RIFs to peak performance... these are awful. Could build better for less than half the price, not to mention I dislike the aesthetic.

Also, £1250 for a pistol? I like my expensive pistols and will usually spend about £350 on mine plus magazines, but £1250 for something that most people won't even use?

Well, I'm sure someone will buy these. I won't, but someone will.

 
Actually, £1250 for the hicapa is about right.

approx £1000 worth of parts individually plus assembly and tuning plus custom cerakoting. 
Most skirmishers won’t benefit From the outlay but if you are a speedsofter and only use it as your primary especially on hpa or a competition shooter the increased longevity of parts and reliability makes it a little easier to swallow the price. 
plus given that a decent tuned hicapa shoots as well as any tuned aeg then I’d personally rather put the money into the fully cnc  airsoft masterpieces hicapa than an internal tuned but still a pot metal krytac

 
Just noticed - they haven't even fitted a new gear set, they kept the Krytac OEM and replace the self-shimming spring on the spur gear with a spacer. I guess they are relying on the Warhead motor to 'upgrade' the RPS. I would also guess that it's using the OEM GB shell if using the stock gears.

And they have a £6 SHS piston in a £1.4k gun and touting it as a big deal. Nothing wrong with SHS, but it doesn't fit the absurd price tag.

The spec of this gun is, well, 'off' in my opinion. A real CTR stock....why? it just costs more and there plenty of decent clones - many would never know the difference. A mock silencer...why not a tracer unit? A set of BUIS that no one will use...why not a Vortex Crossfire?

I think Patrolbase is trying to create their own version of Umbrella Armory.

Stratton Oakmont said:
Actually, £1250 for the hicapa is about right.

approx £1000 worth of parts individually plus assembly and tuning plus custom cerakoting. 
Most skirmishers won’t benefit From the outlay but if you are a speedsofter and only use it as your primary especially on hpa or a competition shooter the increased longevity of parts and reliability makes it a little easier to swallow the price. 
plus given that a decent tuned hicapa shoots as well as any tuned aeg then I’d personally rather put the money into the fully cnc  airsoft masterpieces hicapa than an internal tuned but still a pot metal krytac
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I get that Hi-capas can be ludicrously expensive things, but at this price point, I would want a full custom build where I get to specify every part, colour and finish. For the money, I would want something 100% unique to me, with a low likelihood of ever seeing another the same...anywhere. Here, they are just 'production' guns churned out en masse.

 
What a load of keech.

I mean, if someone is enough of a fknugget to blow well over 1k on any of these toy guns, they're welcome to it and quite frankly deserve to be robbed.

 
is it bad that i could all but predict the parts list in that m4?

admittedly i'd have said maxx rather than pro-win for the hop, but guess they only took every even-numbered reply from reddit....

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He'd give you back an upgraded CYMA and £1000
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not gonna lie, looking forward to seeing luke get his hands on one of these....

 
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Oof, not sure I can get behind a price point like that, especially on something that is "hand built". £1K+ is the realm of GBLS and I know which one I'd opt for.

 
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Adolf Hamster said:
admittedly i'd have said maxx rather than pro-win for the hop, but guess they only took every even-numbered reply from reddit....
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It's not even properly wanky on the internals, no edgi barrel, no maxx hop up, not even r-hopped. 

It's okay though because you get two, yes, an entire TWO pts mags. 

I dare someone to buy one two toned. 

 
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I give it a full two months before we see the aforementioned two toned in our classifieds or Mack's. But then I am trying to be more hopeful....

 
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