GBB M4A1

Any thoughts on the Western Arms M4A1 CQB-R?

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=24491

Nice expensive wall hanger. Mag cool down makes it virtually unuseable as a real skirmish piece, plus the fact that spare mags are going to cost an arm and a leg.

It has some limited potential as a training weapon, but as a game piece, there are MUCH better options.

If you teat it right, it might be an EXCELLENT airsoft weapon, im not going to buy it, its to expensive right now.

^Even if you treat it right, it's not really skirmishable in a normal game. If you burst fire it more than 5-10 rounds, the cool down slows down your bbs and the blowback becomes sluggish. Mags will be darn expensive, and only hold 50 rounds. Top it off with a nylon body and you get an overpriced wall hanger...

Now, if they made it gas in body instead of gas in mag, and made it compatible with AEG mags, I would be all for it, but, just like every other WA product I've run across, it's overpriced and not that skirmishable.

For training purposes, functionally, it would be good, better than a Systema PTW in fact, but for normal use, not impressive...

I agree with Booligan unless you hardly ever fire in a skirmish its usless, but if you want blowback you could get a Guarder armalite.

Yeah, since I have started to agree with you that systema should start making a blowback. But the changable Cylinders, has the same takedown like a real M4. I am impressed with the WA pistols, but the cost of the mags will be a problem to me. I expect them to be around 75 each.

fdsakiller wrote:

I expect them to be around 75 each.

At a minimum. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than $75. Their 1911 mags are $45 each, and in my experience, leak like there's no tomorrow. I wasn't impressed at all with my WA 1911.

You should try a WA M9 Chrome, that thing works like a beauty, Its A GREAT pistol, and works very smoothly, I dont like 1911s though.

No thanks. I don't want to spend $220+ on an all plastic gun with weak blowback and that can't use Propane without adding flow restrictors...

Plus chrome guns make me want to gouge my eyes out... (unless it's my super sexy 8mm gas shotgun)

Like the Deagle Leon lol

BTW
There are some metal parts on the WA, I am looking for a good replacement because all my other GBBs, have broke somehow... because a lot of overuse, with a LOT of rounds through them. But I still cant find a worthy replacement. The WA is almost broken though. It still works ok, and I clean it every day, but its just starting to wear after 2 years.

What I appreciate about this gun, is not so much that it shoots 370-380 FPS, but the more realistic blowback action and that the gas itself is stored in the mag. (Unlike, say the Escort MP5 that had the gas run through a tube, similar to *gasp* paintball. )

However, this design in an M4 configuration... probably not the best idea for a gas gun. Not saying I would turn one of these down given the chance, but I wouldn't really consider it as a primary weapon.

I like the fact that the gun stores the gas in the mags so when the gas cools you can change out the mag and get fresh gas.

^The fact that it's gas in mag is a bad thing. Smaller gas tank = faster mag cooldown. You don't want to change a mag every 10 shot burst because the mag has frozen up. It would be much better if it was gas in gun, such as a larger tank in the buffer tube. Shoot, I'd buy it today if it was set up for HPA on an external tank, and if it could use AEG mags. That way you would actually be able to use it, instead of just look at it and shoot off 10-15 rounds at a time

Shoot, even on redwolf's video they only load 10 or so rounds, because they know the cooldown affects it with a bigger burst than that. That way you get the nice sexy bolt lockback, and it looks good on video.

If it had a full 50 rounds, the burst would have gone like this:
tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat.tat..tat..tat..tat..tat..tat..tat...tat...tat....tat.....tat......tat......tat........tat.........tat...........tat.......hsssss as all the gas vents out from an incomplete cycle without emptying the mag of bbs, or locking back the bolt...

This is why non CO2 gas SMGs don't work that well. Anyone who has tried to skirmish with something like a KWA/KSC M11 will attest to the ROF and FPS decrease with extended bursts, due to the gas in mag cooldown. CO2 SMGs work a little better, but external HPA SMGs are the best gas SMGs, hands down.

Yea, but do you know how much gas the mag can hold?

^Not very much. Probably only enough to fire off one and a half mags on semi, maybe a full mag using 3-5 shot bursts, with a few seconds between bursts. You are limited physically as to how large of a gas container you can make fit inside a magazine. That is why gas in gun systems are better, you can get a much larger gas container, or why external HPA systems are the best, as you can have a relatively huge gas container, plus HPA doesn't have the cool down effect like Propane or CO2.

Propane cools down more effectively that green gas?

^No, propane cools down the same as Green gas because Green Gas IS Propane, just with lube added.