ASG EVO BET Review

[william1134]

Gun Name and maker: ASG EVO SCORPION BET CARBINE

FPS: 350

Hop up:  Yes

Mag Capacity: 75

Battery: 9.9v Life

Plastic/Metal construction

Hi all,

So yesterday I had my very first skirmish with my new Evo BET. My main gun, which I have used for around 12 years has been my trusty TM M14 Socom. The M14 is getting a bit too heavy for me and I think the gearbox/parts are starting to wear out making it unreliable.

I knew I had to replace the gun or get a cheapo backup so I started looking around and started seeing a lot of good things on the ASG Evo, which seemed to be one of the best stock guns you could get… perfect! At a skirmish I briefly handled the SMG version, but wasn’t blown away with it as imo the aesthetics seem a bit strange as the gun is super chunky but the front bit was too stubby and just looked odd. I decided to get myself a carbine version as it looks more main-gun to me.

After a lot of searching I managed to get myself a nearly-new Evo BET for the very cheap price of £250, which included 4 low caps.

 

 

After the first skirmish my impressions are as follows.

 

The good!
• The gun seemed to perform very well and I got off some amazingly accurate shots off at range. Really surprised me and the opponent!

• The high-cap works great and although looks strange, the ergonomic nature makes it quite comfortable

• I love the stock, seems pretty solid and it holds in place very well when I fold it in. Coming from a M14 I found the folding stock just incredible when I got up close to a barricade and needed to pop in/out to take shots off. Great!

• The quick change spring was the envy of many fellow skirmishers that I spoke to. For me it’s nice but once I changed the spring to a M100 I doubt I’ll ever have to use it again.

• The burst fire was fun and I appreciated it being there but it was perhaps more of a novelty as I didn’t end up using it much as a quick burst on the auto did the job just fine.

 

The not so good!

• The battery… man, I really hate this bit. I am using the 9.9v LIFE batteries, which are huge and so so difficult to fit within the gun. After a lot of trial and error I had to tape up the batteries to stop them from snagging on the bolt cover, which happened a lot and once at home I had to disassemble the gun to extract the battery. I am very worried of this happening in the field! A possibility is to get myself a huge PDQ box to house the batteries, but I think this may just end up making the gun look awful. The batteries come as 1000mah and at around lunchtime they clocked in as 25% charge. Luckily I bought two!

• The gun is not as light as I thought it would be and is perhaps a bit too front heavy. Still lighter than my M14 though..

• The low-caps are just far too low, and it’s pretty annoying that its either these or the strange looking high-cap.

• I had a bit of trouble with the fire selector. It seems that there are settings in-between safe/1/3/auto, which don’t do anything. I would had hoped the gun would be more like a mp5 when there is absolutely no question as to which setting you are on.

• The high-caps I found on multiple occasions that when I took the magazine out the gun the magazine just sprayed perhaps 20bbs all over the place. Maybe it’s my technique.. I don’t know.

• The sights that came with the gun looked really good on first impression, but practically during the game I found them too low to use with my mask and eyepro. Also when I did squish my face down into the stock to use them, the bright orange front sight often completely obscured the target.

• The gun has quite a few sharp edges on it, for example the trigger guard is particularly painful.

• The hop unit is incredibly annoying . I hate how you have to use a tool to turn it, which just isn’t practical in the field.

 

Conclusion   8/10

I love this gun and I think it going to be a worthy successor to my trusty M14. It shot straight and didn’t let me down.

The gun is really quite long and was longer or rivalled my friends M4 rifles and I think in hindsight maybe I should had gone for the SMG version.

I am looking to buy the regular carbine barrel and maybe.. maaaaaybe buy the front end/barrel etc for the SMG version so I can change it up every now and then but these parts seem hard to come by and are expensive.

I may give up on the low caps, which seem too low capacity for me. I might just buy myself a second high-cap and leave it as that.