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Another day another Glock 17 review.
Up this time is the Army Armaments R17 which is a copy of the Generation 3 Glock 17. If you want to know the history of the glock pistol then check here and if you want to have a look at the current Glock lineup then check here.
The Army Armament R17 has been around for a while and with the company now selling at least 30 new variants of the Glock it was time for me to have a look.
The AA R17 is direct copy of the Tokyo Marui Glock 17 but it comes with a metal slide as standard. I'll stick up some photos and add comments as I go along.
The Box:
a simple cardboard box with some nice and clear markings on the outside.
Inside the box you will find the pistol, Magazine, paper target, small instructions sheet and a bag of BB's.
The Pistol:
The pistol has full trademarks on the slide and frame. The slide is plastic/polymer and the slide is cast metal. The outer barrel is also cast metal and nicely trademarked.
The base of the magazine has ARMY markings on the base plate and if you want you can replace this with a Guarder traded version. The magazine holds 24 bb's and will work in a Tokyo Marui, WE, KJ Works and Stark/Storm Glock. The magazines for all these companies will work in the Army R17. For best results I found that the WE Glock mags worked best with an increase of around 10 FPS and a much snappier blowback.
The rear sights are plastic and have a luminescent paint which when charged with white light will glow in the dark. I've tried it and it does glow brightly for quite a while.
These are a direct copy of the TM so any metal aftermarket designed for the TM Glock 17 will fit the AA Glock.
Inside the pistol:
splitting the AA Glock is like any other airsoft or RS Glock. Remove the mag, rack the slide and then pull the drop down lever down on both sides and the slide will slide off towards the muzzle. Inside you will find a copy of the TM Glock but everything is pretty much cast metal. one nice addition is that the pull down lever is metal as standard.
The outer barrel is cast with trades, the inner barrel and hop up seem decent quality but can be replaced with aftermarket parts if needed. The recoil rod, spring and buffer seem good quality and the spring is strong enough to return the slide with a nice snap.
Overall experience:
So the big question..is it any good?
For £51 you get a direct copy of a Tokyo Marui Glock 17. All the aftermarket parts made for the TM Glock will fit and it has a metal slide with full trade marks as standard. So for the price and all these features I'd give it a yes vote but let's have a look at performance.
So with a Magazine filled with Guarder 1000 gas and 24 BB's I put a few mags through the pistol and found that it would average 275/280 FPS and fire all the BB's but it didn't always lock the slide back after all the BB's had been fired. I think this is simply because the slide and internals are all cast metal so the pistol struggles with the weight. When I tried the WE magazine which increased the FPS to 285/290 the slide locked back every time.
This would indicate that this is probably a summer pistol as the pistol will struggle to run in the colder months unless you up the gas type and drop the BB load from 24 to around 15-18.
Accuracy is on par with all my other Glocks. I can hit a man sized target at 40 meters with easy. The hop rubber works well but if you want to improve this then putting in a tigher bored inner barrel and changing the hop rubber to a nine ball one will increase the accuracy down to probably an A4 sized target at 40 meters.
I like this pistol and I think it's good value for money which can be repaired with aftermarket parts if anything breaks. My only concerns are that it's more of a summer pistol and the metal slide feels brittle. I think if you dropped it onto concrete from 2 meters it would shatter. it's not the end of the world because of this and I think that with a few tweeks inside and a guarder metal slide installed it could well server you for years.
To get the best from this pistol I'd recommend the following:
Use WE magazines
replace the hop and inner barrel with better quality versions
replace the blowback housing with a light weight one and replace the outer barrel with a plastic one would make the pistol a bit snappier and would make sure that it locked back everytime when using the AA magazine.
Overall 7/10
Up this time is the Army Armaments R17 which is a copy of the Generation 3 Glock 17. If you want to know the history of the glock pistol then check here and if you want to have a look at the current Glock lineup then check here.
The Army Armament R17 has been around for a while and with the company now selling at least 30 new variants of the Glock it was time for me to have a look.
The AA R17 is direct copy of the Tokyo Marui Glock 17 but it comes with a metal slide as standard. I'll stick up some photos and add comments as I go along.
The Box:
a simple cardboard box with some nice and clear markings on the outside.
Inside the box you will find the pistol, Magazine, paper target, small instructions sheet and a bag of BB's.
The Pistol:
The pistol has full trademarks on the slide and frame. The slide is plastic/polymer and the slide is cast metal. The outer barrel is also cast metal and nicely trademarked.
The base of the magazine has ARMY markings on the base plate and if you want you can replace this with a Guarder traded version. The magazine holds 24 bb's and will work in a Tokyo Marui, WE, KJ Works and Stark/Storm Glock. The magazines for all these companies will work in the Army R17. For best results I found that the WE Glock mags worked best with an increase of around 10 FPS and a much snappier blowback.
The rear sights are plastic and have a luminescent paint which when charged with white light will glow in the dark. I've tried it and it does glow brightly for quite a while.
These are a direct copy of the TM so any metal aftermarket designed for the TM Glock 17 will fit the AA Glock.
Inside the pistol:
splitting the AA Glock is like any other airsoft or RS Glock. Remove the mag, rack the slide and then pull the drop down lever down on both sides and the slide will slide off towards the muzzle. Inside you will find a copy of the TM Glock but everything is pretty much cast metal. one nice addition is that the pull down lever is metal as standard.
The outer barrel is cast with trades, the inner barrel and hop up seem decent quality but can be replaced with aftermarket parts if needed. The recoil rod, spring and buffer seem good quality and the spring is strong enough to return the slide with a nice snap.
Overall experience:
So the big question..is it any good?
For £51 you get a direct copy of a Tokyo Marui Glock 17. All the aftermarket parts made for the TM Glock will fit and it has a metal slide with full trade marks as standard. So for the price and all these features I'd give it a yes vote but let's have a look at performance.
So with a Magazine filled with Guarder 1000 gas and 24 BB's I put a few mags through the pistol and found that it would average 275/280 FPS and fire all the BB's but it didn't always lock the slide back after all the BB's had been fired. I think this is simply because the slide and internals are all cast metal so the pistol struggles with the weight. When I tried the WE magazine which increased the FPS to 285/290 the slide locked back every time.
This would indicate that this is probably a summer pistol as the pistol will struggle to run in the colder months unless you up the gas type and drop the BB load from 24 to around 15-18.
Accuracy is on par with all my other Glocks. I can hit a man sized target at 40 meters with easy. The hop rubber works well but if you want to improve this then putting in a tigher bored inner barrel and changing the hop rubber to a nine ball one will increase the accuracy down to probably an A4 sized target at 40 meters.
I like this pistol and I think it's good value for money which can be repaired with aftermarket parts if anything breaks. My only concerns are that it's more of a summer pistol and the metal slide feels brittle. I think if you dropped it onto concrete from 2 meters it would shatter. it's not the end of the world because of this and I think that with a few tweeks inside and a guarder metal slide installed it could well server you for years.
To get the best from this pistol I'd recommend the following:
Use WE magazines
replace the hop and inner barrel with better quality versions
replace the blowback housing with a light weight one and replace the outer barrel with a plastic one would make the pistol a bit snappier and would make sure that it locked back everytime when using the AA magazine.
Overall 7/10
