Airsoft Canada - We ak 74-u

As a special thank you to myself for being such a great guy, I decided to pick up a new toy.

I am a self avowed WE-tard I have 8 WE GBBR M4, M16, CQBR, L85A2, G-39 but I've been waiting patiently for the AK series

and the wait was worth it.

I won't be posting Pics .. there are pictures available elsewhere, I just don't have time to take them.

OK so here are my impressions.

External:
very well done, good finish, all materials look proper.. you could not tell this gun from a real one even upon picking it up.

The receiver is stamped steel with a black finish, body cover is steel with a black /blue finish , Upper piston block is blackened aluminum ( and looks it from close inspection.. this si the worst looking part)

Folding stock blued / blackened steel and solid as a rock.

The Canadian version come with an extended barrel covered over with a silencer ( necessary to get the FPS up to legal import levels ) the stock part are included in the box.

Internal:

Take down is just like a real one, pop the body cover, remove the return spring and guide. retract the bolt carrier/ piston to the take out indent and remove.. field strip is 20 seconds.

Bolt carrier is cast metal, pot metal I expect. but robust. machined just where it needs to be to run in the receiver rails . Piston is black cast in a piece with the carrier, the piston head is machined bright just like a real one.

The trigger group is a fair replica of an modern AK trigger group and clearly very different that anything else WE has done.. they invested some R & D here as I am certain they intend to produce a lot of variants.

Sights, standard AK74 SU , protected post front adjustable for elevation ( but not windage ) and flip short and long range rearsight no adjustment available I could see ( will look more closely)

magazine, Modern polymer style, weight is about right for a loaded mag, has a bolt stop on empty in that the mag can be set to interrupt the fire cycle on empty. so when the mag goes dry the gun stop firing.

Performance : all I can say is WOW and Meh

Semi auto, the action is crisp , with a solid recoil, snappy , chonied with .20 bastards, the gun shot a consistent 456 fps I am told is shoots about 360 with the short barrel installed.

Crazy range.. I mean crazy.. obviously big improvements to hop up.. I was hitting targets the size of a dinner plate consistently at 200 feet, shooting with .30 bastards, the only other gun that has ever shot like that was my KA FAL or a TM M14.

Auto fire.. sucks the longer barrel slows an already slow rate of fire, a real AK74 SU fires at a cyclic rate of 700 RPM pretty slow,, but I think this thing maybe fires at 550 RPM and it vents gas and stutters a bit ( granted it was cold out.. I will try it indoors friday and see if I can measure the ROF ) NOT AT ALL LIKE THE JOY OF AUTO FIRE WITH THE G-39

It is the predominant complaint regarding this gun.. so I expect a ra-tech fix in short order, I think something as simple as and asymetrical return spring could go a ways to addressing this problem.

It is very cool to see the full cycle of the bolt carrier.. all the way back , the movie guys are going to LOVE this gun.

I ran the gun outdoors in 9 degree weather with propane on the weekend.. it ran "ok" but was not happy in the cold.. I did manage to shoot full mags
but auto fire was just not happening.

Overall I am very happy with the gun.. I can see a few of them in the stable

don't ask how much I paid.. I won't tell you.

they will be available at Toronto Airsoft in about a month I'm told