M249 Review

[Polie]

I have the a&k m249, it is was VERY reliable out of the box. The stock piston lasted 10's of thousands of rounds. (375fps with .25's and a 20+ROF) I would buy an A&K over a CA any day. (and 2 of the for the price of 1 CA) I bought mine for a little over $220 shipped to my door. I run a 11.1 lipo on it and I am VERY hard on it. I tend to spray allot to keep people down while others can actually get them out. One thing, the bipod is shit and needs to be taken off. I have only used it once where I thought I could have used it, but thats what the sling is for in prone.

I now have a Frankengearbox with different gears and what-not to kinda play around with it. My next step is to see about putting some ceramic 8mm bearings, a faster motor, mosfet with 10rd burst, and a new trigger switch.

I give it a 10+

I paid $30 for an extra box mag for it. All "200" round mags need the tap mod over the motor area. So thats not a A&K issue only. I run lithium AA's and have ordered 3.6v AA size lithium batteries for it to feed faster. I like the 200rd one vs the 100rd mags due to ease of loading. Just pop the cover and dump water bottles of bb's in it.

[azsworst]

Thanks for the rundown on the a&k m249 polie, however this specific thread is for box mags of support weapons. I'd actually really like to see your opinion of the m249 in the reveiws sections.

[clayton]

220 shipped., good deal. i thought the cheapest was airsplat...