Post by valtteri on Jul 4, 2007 6:57:06 GMT -5
Alright, just got this one. I'll be giving out more details once I get to shoot it, which should be today.
First off, the gun looks as it should. It's made to resemble Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 from ground-up, so it's not a conversion. It's the only airsoft rifle that looks the part also at receiver area.
The stock is all wood, but as usual with japanese guns, not any kind that would be used on a real gun. The wood is really light, the whole gun doesn't seem to weigh much more than a real stock + handguard. The grain pattern is really small and quite unlike any real Mosin-Nagant stock I've seen. Happily you can get real stocks with all the metal parts for some 20 euros around here, and since the gun does not have any mechanisms in places where there houldn't be anything on the real thing (like detachable box mags), it probably isn't too difficult to install a real stock.
Okay so the stock & handguard is wood, but the bad news: Most other parts of the gun are plastic. External metal parts are bolt, rear sight button & spring, cleaning rod, barrel junction and the safety, which is a dummy. Plastic parts are all the rest: magazine, trigger, stock rear plaste, rest of the rear sight, hand guard rings, springs for the hand guard rings, front part of outer barrel, front outerbarrel bushings and the front sight. The front sight being plastic, it broke within 30 minutes of me getting the gun. Real steel sight should fit easily, though..
Only markings on the gun are two small, distorted stamps in front of the magazine and one in the outer hand guard ring.
The plastic parts are real bad looking. Seams are visible and their general appearance is really, really rough. Perhaps they try to get the feel of a hastily built war time rifle, but none of the real M91 parts I've seen have looked this bad.
General feel and fitting: Would be flimsy, if most of what you will be touching wouldn't be one-part wooden stock. Plastic parts always bend, and the trigger is just horrible.
Action: The gun is a spring-action airsoft rifle feeding from an internal hopper. You load the gun by opening the magazine floor plate, pour some twenty bbs and you're set. Bolt action works normal, except the handle is on 90 degree angle, turning 45 degrees. This makes Mosin-Nagant rifles distinctively ankward to cock. As said, safety just sits there, it doens't work. The action is very light, despite spring loading - this probably means the gun has a rather weak spring. The action is lighter than that of the real gun! Triggers wobbles around a lot. Trigger pull isn't light, but not really bad.
The gun has a hop-up, which is adjusted by a flat-head screw behind the rear sight. There is no such screw on the real gun.
All in all: If this shoots the same as a non-upgraded AEG, I'll be happy. It does look the part and apparently it won't be impossible to enhance it with real steel parts. With transport, taxes and customs the gun costs 900 euros, for which price I would expect to get the gun full metal and with much better finish.
First off, the gun looks as it should. It's made to resemble Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 from ground-up, so it's not a conversion. It's the only airsoft rifle that looks the part also at receiver area.
The stock is all wood, but as usual with japanese guns, not any kind that would be used on a real gun. The wood is really light, the whole gun doesn't seem to weigh much more than a real stock + handguard. The grain pattern is really small and quite unlike any real Mosin-Nagant stock I've seen. Happily you can get real stocks with all the metal parts for some 20 euros around here, and since the gun does not have any mechanisms in places where there houldn't be anything on the real thing (like detachable box mags), it probably isn't too difficult to install a real stock.
Okay so the stock & handguard is wood, but the bad news: Most other parts of the gun are plastic. External metal parts are bolt, rear sight button & spring, cleaning rod, barrel junction and the safety, which is a dummy. Plastic parts are all the rest: magazine, trigger, stock rear plaste, rest of the rear sight, hand guard rings, springs for the hand guard rings, front part of outer barrel, front outerbarrel bushings and the front sight. The front sight being plastic, it broke within 30 minutes of me getting the gun. Real steel sight should fit easily, though..
Only markings on the gun are two small, distorted stamps in front of the magazine and one in the outer hand guard ring.
The plastic parts are real bad looking. Seams are visible and their general appearance is really, really rough. Perhaps they try to get the feel of a hastily built war time rifle, but none of the real M91 parts I've seen have looked this bad.
General feel and fitting: Would be flimsy, if most of what you will be touching wouldn't be one-part wooden stock. Plastic parts always bend, and the trigger is just horrible.
Action: The gun is a spring-action airsoft rifle feeding from an internal hopper. You load the gun by opening the magazine floor plate, pour some twenty bbs and you're set. Bolt action works normal, except the handle is on 90 degree angle, turning 45 degrees. This makes Mosin-Nagant rifles distinctively ankward to cock. As said, safety just sits there, it doens't work. The action is very light, despite spring loading - this probably means the gun has a rather weak spring. The action is lighter than that of the real gun! Triggers wobbles around a lot. Trigger pull isn't light, but not really bad.
The gun has a hop-up, which is adjusted by a flat-head screw behind the rear sight. There is no such screw on the real gun.
All in all: If this shoots the same as a non-upgraded AEG, I'll be happy. It does look the part and apparently it won't be impossible to enhance it with real steel parts. With transport, taxes and customs the gun costs 900 euros, for which price I would expect to get the gun full metal and with much better finish.