Guns for £300?

Ells said:
the 048m, this one http://www.acmgear.com/cyma-cm048m-p-3200.html got a scope mount as well and came to $190 (incl the 10% off & Shipping) which my bank (Santander) charged me about £125 for. I saw a similar one in the UK for £200 not including postage or mount
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Lovely! Only my 2nd choice however. I would have gone for the CM048 - another VFC clone, the same as the 048M, but not only looking like an AK-74 instead of an AKM, but also having 40mm more inner barrel. If their TM clones are anything to go by, we should expect their VFC clones to be better than the originals.

I'm not so sure about LCT AK's - they have some really good external bits, but I have doubts about the internals. I've reviewed one here. I suspect that if you grafted a CYMA AK inner barrel, hop unit, and hop rubber into an LCT, you'd have a gun worth shouting about.

 
The 2009 Versions of the LCT AKs are spoken Of quite highly,the NV versions are not amazing. LCT have mixed in pot metal into the steel,shoved in shittier internals, increased the price,changed the name and called it a day.
I checked out the one you reviewed,but I agree with what Finius said,it looks like the retailer bought a Gearbox and LCT kit seperatly and shoddily assembled them. An LCT AK I molested at a shop was a fine piece of craftsmanship,Shot pretty well too.

I agree though,an LCT AK with Marui/Cyma hop and barrel will be a hell of a gun.

VFC AKs are very nice too,good externals and internals through out.

 
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Yeah, I'm sure you're right. I said in the review that I thought mine was a body kit with the other necessaries thrown together willy-nilly. What really pisses me off though is that to buy just a body kit is more expensive than the gun! Still, since then I've found out that the motor cage is standard for V3 gearboxes so, for between £335-55, someone could build a really excellent skirmishable AK using that gun I reviewed as a starting point.

I may do it myself if another one crops up at a similar price, but Fire Support no longer have it and I've got other plans that will absorb most of my cash for the foreseeable future.

 
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