The furniture is made from a high quality fiber reinforced polymer with a textured surface, you will notice instantly how much higher quality this feels over Marui’s furniture. The metal body has an amazing finish with awesome laser engraved trademarks in white, definitely better quality than previous versions, and it comes standard with locking receiver pins. We haven’t heard a lot of complaining about any of the external parts. This is the first time we’ve heard of this, and it may be a quirk specific only to that particular AEG, since we haven’t heard any complaints from our team members about the issue.
When it does this, the only way to get it to stop is to switch to full and fire a burst. When switching directly from safe to semi, sometimes the trigger locks. The trigger assembly on one of our test platforms has been a bit problematic for semi-auto. For an increase in accuracy and maybe an extra foot or two per second velocity, you’re going to want to drop in a tight bore inner barrel. However, a stock barrel is a stock barrel. Having fired a stock Marui M16A2 in comparison, we honestly can’t tell the difference. The inner barrel is definitely not a tight-bore, some users complain that Marui’s stock barrels are better. This feature is also standard on many other one-piece hopup units, not just the CA, which are vulnerable to the same issue. There’s also a retainer ring that can theoretically work itself back too far and stop the hop-up from functioning correctly (or at all), but that’s a quick fix (remove the ring). It also saves you the money you would have spent on a more expensive hopup unit to fix a problem with the pilot hole depth on a set screw. This fix allows you to tighten the screw on the adjustment gear to put as much tension on it as you want. To fix the problem, we used a very inexpensive tiny washer between the set screw and the gear (see the image below). This phenomenon is most likely due the fact that the small set screw on the adjustment gear on the hopup unit cannot be tightened sufficiently to put enough tension on the gear to keep it in place.
Our crack team of weaponsmiths here at Airsoftpacific have come up with a simple and very effective solution to the issue of the hopup backing off. Users have complained about the hopup “backing off” on its own after the AEG has had some time to break in. The stock hopup mechanism is an all metal one-piece setup, much like the Systema, but unfortunately it doesn’t perform like the Systema unit. Some players have complained about CA’s motors in the past, but we haven’t noticed any problems with any of the variants that our team uses. This looks great on paper, but even if you upgrade, just about any motor will do. The M15A4 comes standard with a high-torque motor, easily comparable to Marui’s EG1000. There’s no extra open space, and it’s completely reinforced wherever possible. By just cracking the gearbox open, you can instantly see how much more reinforced the CA box is compared to a Tokyo Marui model. The M15A4 Rifle comes equipped with standard metal bushings, although some newer models (such as the SPC) come with 7mm bearing bushings. This review will focus on the full length versions, but since the parts are standard, many parts of it refer to the others as well.Īll of Classic Army’s newest replicas come pre-installed with metal bushings. In particular, two full length M15A4 rifles, an SPC variant, and an M4. To that end, we’ve ordered and tested several variants of the CA M15A4 platform. The Armalite replicas go leaps and bounds beyond what the previous versions have, yet still many would-be customers are skeptic. CA’s continuous development of this product is a true testament that they’re a company working to serve the US mil-sim market.
Each replica has its own serial number engraved in the receiver. Classic Army resolved to fix the issues that plagued the previous versions of M16 variants and partnered with Armalite to produce its new line of Armalite trademarked M15 variants under the A4 version number.