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Post by tds on Nov 8, 2006 0:52:07 GMT -5
question:
Ive been on the ropes on buying a garand since it came out, its fun, its gbb, its 8mm, i can use an external c02 rig and get good power out of it.
I understand the "issues" with having to take it apart and loctite everything, i'm not worried about that, the only thing im worried about. In my searching, as the posts become more and more recent, more people complain about the clip-ejection not working every time, and I havent read one post about someone actually fixing it.
Is this a terminal problem with the garand? is there a way to fix it? is it just a problem with the plastic mags? (why the metal mags were released?) any light that can be shed on this is appreciated.
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2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 8, 2006 11:49:20 GMT -5
I tried and tried and could not come up with consistent and acceptable performance for the rifle itself relative to skirmishing and the clips with their idiosyncratic function limitations was the real bug-a-boo for me. A crying shame. In an effort to be authentic it became unworkable in my opinion.
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Post by tds on Nov 8, 2006 20:14:57 GMT -5
can you be more specific?
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 8, 2006 21:33:27 GMT -5
First off I did all the loctite screws and think after much trial and error that I ultimately found them all. They kept cropping up like gremlins in a B movie but I think I got them all. When the gun shoots right its as cool as an airsoft gun can be. The bolt flys back and the gun hops around like a puerto rican shortstop. The clip flys out (sometimes) and life is pretty cool. Unfortunately with all the practice I could muster I could never get a smooth and seamless reload of those clips down. With great care and full attention to the task at hand you might, just might, get a precise reload and be ready to fire your next eight in a reasonable time frame I could make it happen about a third of the time. Believe me all attention had better be focused on the effort. Not an easy thing to do during a game. Care and alignment is critical and just the right amount of pressure and the precise insertion has to be done to close your bolt and be ready to continue the fight. I had two Garands and 20 spare clips so it wasn't unique to the one gun or the clips. (Some clips were better then others!) This was true of both guns. I've spoken with others who have the metal clips in place of the plastic and that doesn't seem to help eliminate the challenges. Some claim they're worse.
In short order the springs inside the clips no longer have the power to elject the clips so on top of the usual challenges you're now having to pull them out before you can reload. You can of course minimize this somewhat by always being sure you don't leave the clips loaded for long periods of time especially not over night.
I wanted the gun to be skirmishable and loved firing it in the back yard. I was convinced that with practice and familarity I could become competitive with it. I worked hard at it. The gun in my opinion is a wonderful novelty but not a skirmisher. If others have had other experiences with theirs please join in so this guy can make a sound decision. I sold both of mine and never regretted it. I was determined to get a kill with both before I sold them and I did manage that but every kill was from the intial 8 rounds and at close range.
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