ICS CXP-APE Special Edition Carbine Electric Blowback Airsoft AEG Rifle (Color: Black)

"Absolute laser beam. I was able to get one while they were still Europe only, and I've used it for the past year. Heavily recommend at least using .25, if not heavier. This thing is heavy in and of itself, but 110% worth it. It does have issues with the charging handle, however. The op-rod will slowly shift further and further forward, until it's out of alignment and unable to be pulled back. To fix it, you have to disassemble it all the way down to shift it back. It has a little spring guide that slides across the rod, causing it to shift, but with some JB weld or locktite, it's and easy fix. Welding it to the rod doesn't effect disassembly in any way, so it's an objective upgrade. Other than that, it truly is excellent.

Objective pros/cons:

Pros:
•S3 trigger is amazing
•Accurate as a laser (with heavier BBs like .25s or .28s
•VERY good quality
•gearbox is as solid as it gets
•Mosfet is excellent, has 3rd burst.

Cons:
•op-rod will over time shift out of position (fixable by welding the spring guide in place)
•polymer stock isnt set up well for 2 point sling, and will fully extend if weight is put on it.

Subjective pros/cons:

•HEAVY! It's full metal/aluminum, but with polymer grip and stock, so it's a bit front heavy and isn't by any means light overall.
•M-lok (some people prefer the old keymod, for some unknowable reason)

"Absolute laser beam. I was able to get one while they were still Europe only, and I've used it for the past year. Heavily recommend at least using .25, if not heavier. This thing is heavy in and of itself, but 110% worth it. It does have issues with the charging handle, however. The op-rod will slowly shift further and further forward, until it's out of alignment and unable to be pulled back. To fix it, you have to disassemble it all the way down to shift it back. It has a little spring guide that slides across the rod, causing it to shift, but with some JB weld or locktite, it's and easy fix. Welding it to the rod doesn't effect disassembly in any way, so it's an objective upgrade. Other than that, it truly is excellent.

Objective pros/cons:

Pros:
•S3 trigger is amazing
•Accurate as a laser (with heavier BBs like .25s or .28s
•VERY good quality
•gearbox is as solid as it gets
•Mosfet is excellent, has 3rd burst.

Cons:
•op-rod will over time shift out of position (fixable by welding the spring guide in place)
•polymer stock isnt set up well for 2 point sling, and will fully extend if weight is put on it.

Subjective pros/cons:

•HEAVY! It's full metal/aluminum, but with polymer grip and stock, so it's a bit front heavy and isn't by any means light overall.
•M-lok (some people prefer the old keymod, for some unknowable reason)

"AMAZING GUN! It shoots like lasers and its so easy to operate aside from stiff releases and a stiff charging handle. But how is someone going to make a 400$ m4 style reciever that doesnt take any m4 mags but their own basically proprietary mag, that is an insane decision for a gun in this price range. EPM-1's are so crunchy going in and are misaligned with the hop up. It doesn't take lancer mags either which are the most common two companies in the sport rn. That is crazy, and it says it takes tm style mags. Thats my only gripe is its a 400$ gun that can only use the mag it came with reliably.

"I've had many issues with this rifle. I've owned two of these rifles so far due to sending the first one back for repair/ replacement because of the issues I've had with it.

Issue #1 - The top rail is way too wide, resulting in my optics to mount crooked on the rail. I wanted to run a real EOTech on it, but when I tightened it down, it mounts crooked and it's very noticeable.

Issue #2 - My charging handle got stuck in the forward position just from normal use, without any rough-handling, within two day of owning it.

Issue #3 - When firing it for the first time, within the first 100 rounds I shot through it, the electronics completely died. It simply just stopped working. The fuse was fine, and all of the batteries I tried to use were fully charged and functional. After this I decided to send it back for repair/replacement

Issue #4 - The second rifle I received came with a defective hop-up unit. Adjusting it would do nothing to the hop of the BB's. It also still had the same rail issue I had earlier with the previous rifle, so I assume that every one of these rifles, or at least the batch of rifles mine came from, has this rail issue.

(It's also very picky with magazines, but that's a pretty well known issue with it, and I knew that before buying it)

I still own the second rifle and haven't ran into any new issues yet. I'm tempted to fix some of these issues myself, but I don't want to void my warranty and be stuck with it if I don't want it anymore, so I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it or return it. When it did work, It shot very accurately with consistent groupings, with great range, and with a very short and snappy trigger pull. It has a lot of potential to be great, but with all of these issues I've had, and for $400, it's falls short. For the price, I'd expect to be able to mount any optic that I want on it without it being crooked, and for it to last more than 100 rounds before the electronics completely die, and for it to come with a functional hop-up out of the box. I was super excited for this rifle to come out when I first saw it's announcement, but I'm very disappointed with it now.

So in conclusion, the consistent issue it seems to have is that it's very picky with both magazines as well as optics. Other random issues seem to appear from rifle to rifle from the experience I've had from the two I've owned, however it has potential to be great, and perhaps some of these issues can be fixed. But for the price of $400, I shouldn't have to fix anything when it's still brand new.

"Im only giving this a bad rating because of what happened on my 3rd time using this gun. my version was the S3 gearbox.

I LOVE this ACR and get so many compliments from it, its heavy in a good way, feels very comfortable and satisfying to shoot but....

My third time Feilding this gun at a milsim event the mosfet caught fire and killed my gun barely got to use this thing and never did anything crazy to this gun to cause such and issue. everything was stock out of the box and all I was doing was just using it pretty reserved in semi. IDK if my gun was fauly but upset this happened and hoping I can get some assistance from evike for a $400 gun that had such a catastrophic issue out of the blue