EMG x Strike Industries Tactical Competition AEG w/ GATE ASTER ETU - CYMA (Model: CQB w/ PDW Stock - 300 FPS / Black / Gun Only)

"-pros-
rps is awesome
firmly built, feels realistic
fast trigger response
cons-
Straight out of the box had issues with the gate aster, wouldn't click into semi
battery drainer -11.1v lipo-
stick batteries fit somewhat into the stock
muzzle is almost impossible to take off without stripping the gun apart and putting a new barrel on

"out of the box, 11.1v 1200 mh battery causes the gun to STOP FIRING ofter one small burst .. motor immediately got seriously HOT ! after a 10 seconds or so it would shoot again but only a handfull of semi.. then same issue .. stops shooting .. 7.4 seems to not have this issue so far.

"Great build quality with a few flaws. For starters, the piston has mostly plastic teeth and broke after one game of use. However, I had a spare shs but I understand that not everyone is willing to crack open a gearbox especially one with the aster, which brings me to the next flaw. The aster is notorious and unfortunately known to have selector issues which admittedly are present in this gun. I had to recalibrate the selector about 20 times to get it right and even then it can still feel gimmicky. The rest of the gun is great, good build quality, modern appearance, si trades and snappy response on a 11.1 especially in binary.

"Pros
Receiver has no wobble and is very firm.
Rail has no wobble and is very firm. (SBR 349-353 fps)
Gearbox is very snappy but the trigger pull is long.
Paint is very Nice
Full auto is very good

Cons
Battery compartment requires you to take the stock off completely for easier access to the cap at the end of the buffer tube. (Im using 11.1 1000mah stick type)
Stubborn grub pin used to hold the orange tip. (need pin punch to remove)
Even more stubborn grub pin used to lock the compensator on to threads (need pin punch to remove), this is probably the worst outer barrel design I’ve seen yet.
Even after removing the grub pin I cannot remove the compensator.
No 14mm tracer units will work unless you can either remove the compensator or swap the outer barrel entirely.
Compensator is so thick that it blocks the use of the furthest m-lok slots furthest to the front.

"Receivers fit nicely along with the rail, there is no wobble. You will have to remove the stock to replace batteries as the buffer tube has a screw cap that is difficult to spin off with the stock on. The gearbox is very snappy and sounds good, although the trigger pull is far too long. I got the 400fps spr and it chronos in at 349-352fps. Beware you will either have to forget about screwing on a tracer unit to your outer barrel or you have to damagemodify it. Compensator explained Part 1: The orange cap on the compensator is held in place by a grub pin. I had to use a heat gun to weaken the plastic on the orange cap and it eventually it leaves the plastic weak enough to pry it off by hand. The grub pin will be left exposed and sticking out (I dremeled mine down.) Part 2: Now that you have the orange cap off in order to remove the metal compensator you will either have to punch out or drill out a deeply receded grub pin because that’s what’s keeping it locked to the outer barrel and it’s 14mm+ threads. Gotta say whoever designed the outer barrel and and compensator did a very poor job, if you are reading this use grub screws in the future buddy. 3/5 for me and I had lot of hope for this aeg.

"Build quality was good, but the weapon itself has loads of internal issues. Mis fires a lot due to bad optical sensor for the trigger, and randomly error codes mid game then needs to be factory reset. Not the best especially for this price.

"Purchased this in store for my son with recommended batteries/accessories. Took it home and it functioned for less than one magazine before it would start cutting out and not functioning. After 5 separate trips to Evike including leaving it with their tech department for a week we would get it home it would shoot less than a magazine before it would stop working. On the 5th trip they wanted to replace more parts but we decided to return it and buy something else.

While checking out multiple different guns we looked at a similar style "Krytac". I asked the salesman what the difference in quality would be between the Krytac and the EMG and he said we will never need to bring the Krytac back for repairs. Wish they would have mentioned that before we bought this thing. Got the Krytac home and it has preformed flawlessly.... Lesson learned. This was a great looking solid feeling gun but only useful if you want a very expensive paper weight.

"I bought this gun as I buy all of my G&P m4s…. As a project. I don’t care how the gun performs. I build $2k custom gun builds off the G&P m4 platform on the regular. The best part about buying from the same brand, is the modularity. Because most of my airsoft guns are G&P m4 based, I can easily exchange upper and lower receivers between any of my guns. I was so excited when my two favorite companies partnered up to make this new gun. I impulsively bought it to add to my collection of G&P guns and I quickly had exciting build plans for the gorgeous externals. I was so excited to have another gun to exchange parts with my other G&Ps. This gun, however, is misrepresented on evike in my opinion. I believe this gun to be G&G based…. And that’s a BIG difference, as G&G and G&P are not modular. I’m greatly disappointed in the completely different branded gun that I bought. The receivers aren’t modular with any other G&P receivers, the outer barrel has a negative thread (which we all know G&P makes positive threads), the gearbox itself is black, G&P uses their award winning gearbox for their guns and the gearbox itself should be silver, the hopup is a rotary hopup, which to my knowledge, G&P doesn’t use rotary hopups, I haven’t taken the gearbox or motor out of the gun yet, as I plan on returning it and don’t want to void the warranty. But to anyone that buys for brand…. This is NOT a G&P