Buying an AEG.

[Sitting Duck]

Couple of things

At the cheap end £150ish G&G is definitely better than ICS which is why I linked a couple. Other than that though G&Gs are not very good.

Dont know who says at the £250+ mark G&Gs are better but they are delusional. Yes they can come with mosfets and ecu's but they are all substandard ones, spend £10 to £35 and you will get better electronics. Ics new range is far superior in build quality and materials and their older stuff while not quite as good still has better motors, better gears, equally as good piston, cylinder and hop units. The only really bad thing on the Ics is the hop rubber isnt the best but for £5 you can get a TM or lonex bucking which is better than what comes in both makes of guns.

I am saying this not as an airsofter but as someone who has over 20 years engineering experience.

Yes I am not a big fan of G&Gs but that is because of the fanboyism that follows them. Good cheap first guns but after that there are so many brands that are better for same or less money.

TM, Realsword, Krytac, Ics, even some classic army and G&P guns and probably and few more that I have never taken apart.

I think G&G do good cheap guns so people buy the brand get some loyalty and carry on buying their brand as they go up.

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I like the starter guns to mess about with

I know a couple on here have the higher end ones but a fair amount of these have blowback on and they love them

Personally I don't care for the blowback gimmick and some reports of the PBB boxes tend to fail or crack if pushed

(the more stuff to go wrong n stuff plus the higher price is what puts me off the higher end G&G PBB boxes)

The CM's & most are non blowback are what I like to mess around with

(yes there are some PBB CM's about so be careful what you buy)

In the past their mosfet's had a bad rep but the newer seems better

(well couldn't get any worse than some bad batches)

The CM's are as common as muck as other players may refer to them

- or very popular if you are a G&G CM owner - the Fords of Airsoft but good decent starter guns

IMHO only - much better than SRC and think the polymer receivers are better than ICS Sportsline guns

plus G&G M4's offer you plenty of choice it is hard to pick just one - damn it (story of my life)

They not perfect - I'll criticise various bits n bobs but they are a nice gun to work on

yes motors are a little less oomph that maybe ICS, the bronzey bushings wear a bit too quick

but overall they are very well built for the price

Higher end stuff I can't see myself buying one new

doubt if I really spend £300 for a gun off the shelf for a while

tbh but that is just my take - plenty of people will buy TM Krytac WE or G&G TopTech etc....

I have mainly stuck to a £150 budget for any gun I've bought so far

to me its a toy gun and I feel need to improve a bit to be worthy of a more expensive gun

atm I can still blame "well c'mon its a starter gun" for my crappy skill or rather lack of it

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

Agree about the polymer being better but the metals is a totally different story.

With my job you get to be able to spot bad metals an alloys as easy as most people would spot mouldy bread. Most Aeg's use pot metal receivers and external parts which if fair enough to keep the price down but the internals should use decent materials.

G&G's internals set my spidey sense going in the same way as really bad chinese guns they are just not good enough.

G&G need to forget about the gimmicks and just improve internal quality. I would rather have a gearbox that will fire fifty thousand rounds than a £3 mosfet.

As for ebb its pathetic on any gun, PTS ERG and TM recoil work but ebb is a joke.

 

[djben9]

http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?products_id=4419 not sure, but thus seems good.

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Thats one im looking at, but feel i need to actually pop to FFZ and handle their goods first!....

 

[Mos]

Thats one im looking at, but feel i need to actually pop to FFZ and handle their goods first!....

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yeah, changed my mind now... But good luck!