- Great Reliable Gun!, November 04, 2009
Reviewer: kcaz94 from Suffern, NY

If you are just starting out, or you and your friends play together, but you don't want to spend money on an expensive gun, then this is for you! It is extremely powerful, and is very accurate when coupled with a red dot sight attachment. I was surprised at how well this gun performed considering its price. The gun's hop up is also highly adjustable and very responsive. So responsive in fact that if set to maximum, your bb will travel around 100 feet, then curve upwards at around a 80 degree angle. Now this said, you can adjust this very precisely to your liking, although I think the gun is powerful enough to the point where I hardly even have to turn on hop up. The shotgun aspect of the gun doesn’t really mean much though because this gun only shoots one BB at a time. I actually chose it for that reason. If you have a 3 shot air soft shotgun then you are shooting 3 bb's every time you shoot it. Think about that, it adds up to a lot of wasted bb's! And tri-shot shotguns usually cost up to 250% more. Also the single shot feature is good for precision aiming. If there were two spring air soft guns, where both had exactly the same features, and where the only difference was that one looked like an ak-47 and the other was a shotgun, then I would choose the shotgun. This is because when you have a spring air soft gun, over time you will get tired of after every shot you take, pulling that little lever back with your fingers. A shotgun format gun has the whole hand-grip lever, so when you pull back to cock it, instead of using weak forearm and finger muscles which fatigue easily to pull back a small lever, you are using your entire hand along with your entire arm to pull back a large pump. This allows the shooter to fire more shots consistently without fatiguing.

Suggestions

*Don’t buy those fancy KSC Perfect .2g 4000ct High Polish BBs, they are nice to have, but really unnecessary for this gun. Instead save a couple of bucks and get 1,000 more bb’s with the 5000ct Bag .2g High Grade Precision Ground Premium BBs for Spring Guns. They work about the same and are much cheaper.

*DO NOT use .12g bb’s. The best for this gun are definitely .2g and I would go so far to say .25g bb’s if you live in a very windy place. But your standard weight should be .2g.

*BUY THE 10-DOLLAR DOT SIGHT (Spec Ops Reflex Sight) WELL WORTH IT!!! INCREASED MY ACCURACY BY A LOT!!

*Buy the 180 round high capacity magazines!!!

*Silicone lube will help your gun live a long life and it will increase your gun's fps by about 30. Nice to have but not 100% necessary, I would say about 70% necessary.

To Lube: Insert straw into the can’s nozzle, place straw as far down the gun's barrel as possible and squeeze hard for about a half of a second. Then flip the gun so the belly is exposed. Remove the magazine. Then move the shotgun's pump as far back as possible and squirt a half second of lube into the bb receiver. Without firing, move the pump lever back and fourth several times (Anywhere over 5 times is good) and pointing away from your face and anything you don’t want to get damaged or oily, dry fire one shot. Then reinsert your magazine (with bb’s) and pump off around 10 to 15 shots).

NOTE: Initially after you lube your gun, its hop up may perform inconsistently and/or it may not fire as powerfully. This issue will reside after around 30 or so shots.



NOTE: The gun comes with a small magazine (20 rounds) and a high capacity magazine (180 rounds) this does not mean that an additional high cap magazine is not needed. Trust me, if you’re in an intense fight, or one of your high capacity magazines break, you will be glad you had a spare.

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