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FPBBrandon
Accounting, GO!
Registered: March 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 716
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Review Date: 11/12/06
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: £250.00
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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SOLID Build, Full wood/steel, Super performer
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Price, Poor wood fitment
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Hello All...
I come to you today with my own review on the VFC AKS74UN, which I received in the mail yesterday afternoon.
So lets get started.
Down with the unboxing photos:
A nice pretty full colored box. Very solid, and leaves no question as to whats inside. Probably good for you who either own your own home, or live in your parents home. Not so good for myself on the Uni's apartments.
First glimpse inside the box reveals the instruction manual, written in English, Russian, and Taiwanese. Also, a 40ish page catalog full of other VFC goodness. They have some very interesting stuff coming down the road for those of you who don't keep up with your airsoft news.
Here we are, my new baby nestled into its little cardboard holder. Its not the securest of packing, but it looks like nothing came out in shipping. Now that its out of the box, lets have a look.
So lets start with initial impressions.
Upon removing the gun from the box, you find that this thing is heavy! The gun weighs in on my scale at a little over 12 lbs with the magazine attached. The entire exterior excluding the pistol and foregrip is a combination of steel and machined aluminum, with steel presiding.
The wood is the correct color for a soviet manufacture AKS74U, and feels like laminated plywood as the real gun uses. Theres a slight roughness to the wood in places where the finish isn't uniform. It makes it alot more authentic in my opinion.
The gun's construction is completely solid. There is not a single creak, flexing joint, or lack of rigidity anywhere in this rifle. My only niggle is the fitment of the wood to the body, mine looks off by a few millimeters.
The gun is very short and natural feeling to me. I don't exactly have the longest arms in the world (My G3 fetish is a mystery even to myself) and find this gun to be a perfect size for me. The stock has a simple spring loaded latch to keep it both open and folded, and in either case, it is solid and positively locked in place. Below is an image for a size comparison with the gun's stock folded, myself as a backdrop.
Sights are fairly standard AK sights with a twist. The rear sight is flip adjustable with a small, and very slightly smaller aperture. Front sights remain open ring and post sights, so anyone used to the marui AK fear not.
Those of you familiar with these know they come in a standard and DX version, DX including the wood grips (where the standard has plastic), and the DX Having individual serial numbers stamped on the bolt, the nameplate, and the upper wood grip. I have #433 out of 1000 DX versions. You can kind of make out the serial number on the picture of the bolt below.
Another neat feature is that one can pull the bolt on this all the way back. Not sure how important this is to you AK owners, but the bolt goes as far back now as the realsteel.
So, lets now talk about the internals.
This gun uses a V3 Mechbox, with highend gears, piston, cylinder, spring guide, 7mm bushings, and a good hi-torque motor. On an 8.4v battery, the gun has a great stock rate of fire, and a 9.6 turns it into a beast. Interestingly, a 9.6v isnt even the full capacity of the gun. The battery compartment is hollow all the way through the foregrip, allowing up to a 12v battery to be fitted to the gun. Also, in the picture below, note the 20Amp automotive fuse used instead of the strange 15A consumer electronics style fuses used in most other guns.
In terms of bb flight, I am unsure as I have no place to test the gun at range. Ill update this when I can, all though I will say that this punched through 2 layers of heavy cardboard this morning with little issue.
Overall, this is a wonderful little toy, and I would recommend it to anyone who collects merely on the quality of the build.
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Chairsoft Press- The good times roll, and you dont even have to stand!
Not Chris for longer than he's not been Brendan... Nor one of those Mississippi f*cks as well...
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November Sun
Registered: March 2006
Location: Wakefield
Posts: 84
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Review Date: 31/1/07
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: £340.00
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Very Solid, Looks Fantastic, Good Quality
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Poor Handguard, Expensive
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I have just received my VFC AKS74UN (DX Version 2) from WGC Shop in Hong Kong. The DX v2 has a dark brown grip and wood handguards. I have to agree with all the points above about the quality and looks, its a fantastic item. One thing that bothers me is the quality of the wooden handguards and also the top handguard cover wobbles alot even with the 'pop-up' cover firmly closed, apart from these points its a great gun and very powerful, I managed to shred a cardboard box with just 0.2g BB's and a 8.6v battery.
The supplied Bakelite magazine seems to feed fine and i'd heard that some magazines didnt fit very well (such as the ICS black 74 mags, which I have) When I tried my ICS mags they didnt want to go in at first but if you them angle them right then they fit and work fine.
Overall fantastic gun although I would probably order the standard version in future and buy some original Russian handguards from an auction site.
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mi-go-a-go-go
Registered: November 2006
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 41
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Review Date: 14/3/07
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: £260.00
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Weight, look, feel
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price, the mag fitting
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I agree with all the above
but will also add that over the past 4 months it has proved super reliable, accurate, and has inspired jelousy.
Its rocks
The only issues are.
yup the handgurds do feel that little bit lose
And althought the mags lock in fine they are fussy to get in position compaired to a cheep cmya Ak i have used
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I Only Need one Bullet.
Crash bang eeek
Ammmo ammmooo give me more ammooooo arrrrrgh
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gato
Registered: April 2007
Posts: 1
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Review Date: 24/4/09
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Quality, weight, feel
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Cost, wood fit
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Keep in mind I'm from Canada and Airsoft costs us ALOT more than most other countries when it comes to price. On first impression I'm thoroughly pleased with my VFC AKS74U DX (V2) that just arrived today, as mentioned the wood isn't as snug as I'd like especially the upper but I don't see it falling off or getting lost or anything so it's ok. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet though but am looking forward to doing so.
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Registered: March 2005
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