Rogerborg
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This is a review of the Galaxy MP5K as stock.
Pros:
It's super cheap.
Very light.
310fps out of the box.
Comes with a 200 round hi-cap, a usable NimH battery and a burn-your-house-down charger.
You can HK-slap it.
Very nearly as handy as a pistol, with very nearly a carbine's range.
Works well in CQB or as a sniper-secondary, if you've got the drop on your target.
Takes pretty much any generic MP5 magazine: high, mid or real cap.
The V3 gearbox is solid, and has no inherent issues.
Will hop 0.25g.
The full-auto ROF isn't too bad.
Cons:
The fire-selector is sloppy, and wants flipped to full them back to semi in order to click in.
Might just barely hop 0.28g, but don't bet on it.
The push-pull lever hop unit loves to slacken off, and needs tightening up, or cable tie the hop-arm to the barrel.
Very plastic, lots of ping in the spring, and creak-and-flex in the foregrip.
"Very-nearly" isn't the same as same as exactly. It's not quite a pistol, nor quite a carbine.
If you HK-slap, the HK-slap will break sooner rather than later. Just bin it and fit a decent long lipo down the tube.
The stock motor is very weak, and the delay between pulling the trigger and shooting the BB can be put on your calendar.
A long, lonnnnnnnnng trigger pull, which isn't trivial to sort out. In combination with the insipid motor, this means that you'll never win a CQB face-off.
Overall:
You can have a ton of fun with this very cheap, light toy gnu out of the box.
It can be upgraded, but the trigger pull and semi-auto response will remain problematic.
Lipo, mosfet and a decent long-shaft motor will sort most of the cons, except for the trigger response.
Should you though?:
At the price, sure. Loads of laughs for the money.
Pros:
It's super cheap.
Very light.
310fps out of the box.
Comes with a 200 round hi-cap, a usable NimH battery and a burn-your-house-down charger.
You can HK-slap it.
Very nearly as handy as a pistol, with very nearly a carbine's range.
Works well in CQB or as a sniper-secondary, if you've got the drop on your target.
Takes pretty much any generic MP5 magazine: high, mid or real cap.
The V3 gearbox is solid, and has no inherent issues.
Will hop 0.25g.
The full-auto ROF isn't too bad.
Cons:
The fire-selector is sloppy, and wants flipped to full them back to semi in order to click in.
Might just barely hop 0.28g, but don't bet on it.
The push-pull lever hop unit loves to slacken off, and needs tightening up, or cable tie the hop-arm to the barrel.
Very plastic, lots of ping in the spring, and creak-and-flex in the foregrip.
"Very-nearly" isn't the same as same as exactly. It's not quite a pistol, nor quite a carbine.
If you HK-slap, the HK-slap will break sooner rather than later. Just bin it and fit a decent long lipo down the tube.
The stock motor is very weak, and the delay between pulling the trigger and shooting the BB can be put on your calendar.
A long, lonnnnnnnnng trigger pull, which isn't trivial to sort out. In combination with the insipid motor, this means that you'll never win a CQB face-off.
Overall:
You can have a ton of fun with this very cheap, light toy gnu out of the box.
It can be upgraded, but the trigger pull and semi-auto response will remain problematic.
Lipo, mosfet and a decent long-shaft motor will sort most of the cons, except for the trigger response.
Should you though?:
At the price, sure. Loads of laughs for the money.
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