Some of those guns are actually almost entirely built from scratch. There are a few VSS Vintorez/AS Val rifles in there. There are Jugo AKs, AMDs, and Tabuks. There's even a Bizon. Those were labours of love.
Some of those guns are actually almost entirely built from scratch. There are a few VSS Vintorez/AS Val rifles in there. There are Jugo AKs, AMDs, and Tabuks. There's even a Bizon. Those were labours of love.
So let me get this straight, Warsaw. You want an airsoft AK-47 that looks exactly like the real thing? How is it that nobody makes such a gun if the AK-47 is the most popular rifle of all time? Also, you say no matter what you do to the M4, somebody else can replicate it. Well isn't that also the case on the AK-47? They are both very generic weapons.
You misunderstand. The AK is a base. It's what you do after that makes it unique. And it's a subtle uniqueness that makes it yours. If I were to buy, say, the G&G AK-47 today, I have several things I can do to it right off the bat that you couldn't. I have some out of production , legitimate Polish wooden furniture, for starters, that I have to restain myself and cut up to fit an airsoft receiver. I have a first-generation Soviet side mount (that you can't really find anywhere, this thing is custom) that was used on AK-47 proper for Gen 1 night vision scopes. Then there's my choice of magazines. I can cut up a real slab-side and insert airsoft guts and have something nobody else on the field will have.
Now, if you do the same thing as best you can:
1.) Your stain will never come out the same as mine and your wood grain is different anyways.
2.) You will have to settle for a later generation side mount, which in and of itself is mounted further forward than the Gen 1.
3.) You have to either use the typical ribbed magazine.
4.) The nicks and scratches that inevitably end up on your furniture during this process and during play are yours. They also change the colour of the stain as it pools. As the gun ages and is used, the stain wears away.
5.) The metal bluing/phosphorous coating will also get worn, but M4s don't look good scraped up and they don't scrape up very easily in the first place. Plastic guns like the SCAR or G36 won't scrape at all.
Bottom line is that AKs (or Eastern Bloc guns in general) gain character and Western guns don't. It's that character which makes them unique. Some kid and his bone stock VFC or TM AK does not have a unique gun. Someone who took their VFC or TM and turned modified it will have something special and unique to them. An M4 or SCAR will never be that way because all the bits and pieces are cookie-cutter copies of each other. Now, you see M4s with attachments and different stocks all the time, and those are all appropriate for the way the gun is used in real life. When was the last time you saw an AK that was appropriately modified like the ones you see in my links?
I see what you're saying now. I guess there is more "character" to the AK, as you say it, than the M4 or other modern weapons. Well, if you dig the way the gun ages, that's good, but personally that doesn't appeal to me. What I like in a weapon is one that looks pristine from the day I buy it to a decade later. That's why the M4 is one of my favourite weapons. It's the modularity of the attachments that make it cool to me. Of course, that's all personal preference. Still, I think there is a specific purpose that guns don't use wood parts anymore.
I've restrained myself from expressing my true feelings about wood-furniture AK's in this thread so far... I think I need to express it now so you can see my point of view.
I think any AK variant with wood furniture looks like it was cobbled together with bits of leftover parts.
I think any AK variant with more modern "black" furniture looks like some cobbled together machinery trying to look new.
That's just my opinion on AK's. I don't like them at all. I don't like all that "character" that they have. The point of creating a weapon system in my mind is practicality, you put something together that works the way you play. Who cares if someone replicates it? That's a compliment to the original creator in my opinion, it means they liked it so much that they wanted to try out that style as well.
I share your opinion about uniqueness when it comes to computers though. That's one reason I'm looking into water cooling my next build, not many people do it compared to your average PC gaming build. That's neither here nor there in this thread but I'm just saying I understand why you like the character an AK-47 has. My old real steel Remington 700 carbine (18.6" barrel) is like that, I just love it for some unexplained reason. Our new Browning BAR 30-06 Semi and new Thompson/Center Venture just don't do it for me like that Remy does even though they're technically "better" guns. That said, if I got myself an HK MR308, fuck the Remy it can burn in a fire for all I care.
Well, the difference is that the AK mods are to make the gun look like the real weapon and M4 mods are simply adding doodads.
The reason guns don't use wood anymore is because it's both heavy and expensive. Wood is still a better material than plastic for a firearm because it does not melt. It can catch fire, but it does so at a higher temperature than polymer melts and if it catches fire, you're doing something very wrong. There are small shops in less developed countries that manufacture AR-10s and AR-15s using wood parts. I always thought that was cool.
Anyways, to each his own. You guys like pristine, I like rugged. All of the guns we mentioned are fine pieces of equipment and do their jobs well.I just maintain that VFC is a sellout because they seem to want to manufacture the same shit everybody else does instead of their unique line of AK-74s, so now people like me have to use the shitty Chinese copies.
9.6V 2300mAh and 9.6V 1600mAh. What are the difference between the two? I forgot what mAh does.
Milli-amps/ hourOriginally Posted by Spartan094
higher the number for amps pushed through per hour.
Get higher mAh whenever you can, the higher the mAh the longer the battery will last and the longer you can play. I try to keep everything at 2000 or higher when I can depending on the gun.
Rule of thumb is 1 BB = 1mAh. So 2000 mAh is roughly 2000 rounds fired.
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