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CM028 CYMA AK-47 discussion

  • 02-01-2007 3:32pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭


    Nice review :)

    Just one thing though, you sure about the selector settings? AK models are safe, auto, semi from the top down.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭nonex


    sorry for my mis type
    AK models are safe, auto, semi from the top down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 305 ✭✭Shigsy


    Fiach Dubh wrote:
    Nice review :)

    Just one thing though, you sure about the selector settings? AK models are safe, auto, semi from the top down.

    The AK comes in multiple variants and is almost always Auto, Semi, Safe from top down but the Romanian variant (along with others) has Semi at the top, followed by Auto and Safe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Fiach Dubh


    Is this a late version Romanian AK you are talking about? All the info I've found says the Romanian AK operation is identical to it's Soviet counterpart. The only other reference I found was to the AKM which has auto, semi, 3-shot burst function but I can't get a list of the selector order for it.

    From Wiki (confirmed on AK47.net);

    Romanian AK47

    The initial Romanian copies of the AK-47 were faithful copies of the Soviet milled Type 3 receiver (See AK-47, Receiver development history). When Romania switched to stamped receivers, following the advances of the USSR with the AKM, the new rifle was designated the AIM. The Soviet AKM and AKMS are distinguished only by an underfolding stock, and the Romanian AIM and AIMS, respectively, follow this convention. The only further distinction is a forward handgrip on each model. The forward pistol-grip on the AIMS differs in that it curves backwards, allowing the underfolding stock to be completely retracted.

    Operating cycle

    To fire, the operator inserts a loaded magazine, moves the selector lever to the lowest position, pulls back and releases the charging handle, and then pulls the trigger. In this setting, the gun fires once requiring the trigger be released and depressed again for the next shot until the magazine is exhausted. With the selector in the middle position, the rifle continues to fire, automatically cycling fresh rounds into the chamber, until the magazine is exhausted or pressure is released from the trigger.

    I know civilian model AK's only have semi capability so their setting is Safe, semi. If you have a link to a website with a non standard AK model design I'd love to see it. I'm crazy about all things AK :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭nonex


    i'am sorry for the mistake on that review as i'am reviewing 6 models you have to make one
    this model AK selector pattern is safe, auto, semi from the top down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Fiach Dubh


    No problem Nonex, I was directing my last post to Shigsy ;) I just thought you may have actually gotten a 028 with a screwed up selector, would have been interesting to have an AK that goes to semi first :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 305 ✭✭Shigsy


    I was pretty sure the Romanian AK model selector was safe, semi then auto from top to bottom. Had a quick look and came across this article. It's about an airsoft AK but it references the real Romanian Ak selector switch...

    "The Double Eagle M86 AK-47 is modeled after a Romanian made AK-47 variant, so the first thing you will notice is the difference in selector pattern from the traditional AK. One click down from safety is semi-automatic for controlled, accurate shots. Drop the selector down another click to full auto and at the squeeze of the trigger the M86 fires 13 shots in under a second."

    Source: http://www.airsoftworthy.com/double-eagle-m86-ak47-49/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Fiach Dubh


    Thanks for the link, interesting alright. It must be a later model Romanian AK47. I'll keep checking for more references to it. You've peeked my curiosity now :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Waylander24


    Thats a nice looking AK. I prefer AKs with a folding stock rather than a fixed one. Is that AK compatible with lo-cap mags? If so which one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Just had a go of three different versions of this AK. One had a collapsible stock. All very solid. I was very impressed. The finish on the wood furniture is excellent. Obviously the rate of fire isnt as high as a TM. The mags you get with them aren't the best. (but seem to be interchangeable with TM so that's alright) I'm not sure about the hop ups on them. But for the price, they're excellent.

    I'd really reccomend one of these to a beginner who's interested but not wanting to spend hundreds in case they dont like it. Or if you're someone like me who does like the AK, but not enough to go and spend a fortune on a TM version.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Fiach Dubh


    Thats a nice looking AK. I prefer AKs with a folding stock rather than a fixed one. Is that AK compatible with lo-cap mags? If so which one?

    TM and CYMA AK's will take Star 30 round low-caps and 105 round mid caps. I think UTG AK's will take them too but I hear UTG aren't the best.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    I have the classic army slr on which this is based. I've the all black solid fixed stock version. the mags are the same. Im actualy gonna get a box of mid cap mags for it from star as mentioned above.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Waylander24


    Fiach Dubh wrote:
    TM and CYMA AK's will take Star 30 round low-caps and 105 round mid caps. I think UTG AK's will take them too but I hear UTG aren't the best.
    Thanks for the help.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Fiach Dubh


    Always happy to assist getting more AK's onto the field comrade ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    Just ordered a box of star mid-cap mags for the AK so it'll be a weapon that'll get more use in future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    You and your constant supply of new stuff.

    I hate you :P

    Just ordered a rifle bag for the Famas. Hope it gets here sometime in the next month.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    That wasnt all i ordered, i ordered a box of mp5 mids too so now i MUST get a pair of mp5k's, $300 for a pair from ehobby so not bad.
    Also got around to ordering a marpat boonie and a balaklava for good messure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    All we need now is to get good at the sport ;)

    ...

    And a damn site down south!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    All we need now is to get good at the sport



    Speak for yourself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Ah sorry I forgot, you're an old hand at it now :rolleyes:

    In my defense, I did get a kill before I was shot on my first go. Quite proud of that, was I. Poor chap got riddled. Damn adrenaline.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    LOL yeah, was proud of myself too my first game. i did have the advantage of the fastest rate of fire there using the famas and all but hey. such is life.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I really do love that about the Famas. It may be a big ugly lump of plastic. But jesus, can it fire. It sounded faster then most AEGs there.

    Quite looking forward to getting to use it again. This time without a bottle of bbs rattling around in my pocket to fill up my high cap every few min.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    whys that? you gonna bring more then one hi-cap or more mid caps?

    It probly is the fastest thing that was there. its faster then most.

    the hollow plasticy feel is the only thing stopping me getting one of those too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Last time I had one high cap and one mid cap. It has such a high rate of fire that it blasts through the mid in a few seconds.

    I'm after buying another high cap. So hopefully two highs and one mid should do me without having to reload.

    The hollow plastic feel I find does diminish quite a bit when you put the battery in. And tape up the handle. I have yet to line the battery compartment to stop the foregrip creak though. Keep forgetting to buy tape.

    But yeah, feel wise, it doesn't really come close to some of the other AEGs. Ah well, maybe someday there'll be a full metal kit released. *fingers crossed*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    if classic army make a fa-mas id say it'll be metal but i doubt they will if they havn't already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I know its lack of production in the airsoft world is a bit odd. I know most people seem to want m4's and Heckler stuff, but there ARE Famas appreciators out there.

    What makes it even weirder is the fact that it was Marui's first gun.

    Maybe I'll just have to find an engineering shop somewhere and construct one myself :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    im not realy supprised some how at mauri macking it. there whole image seems to be a kinda of video game approach and with Metal Gear Solid being HUGE over there and it being a main weapon in it, it just seems normal.


    Don't get me wrong, it may have nothing to do with video games and i know other makes are rom the same place but it COULD be a reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The TM Famas dates much further back then Metal Gear Solid. It features in the 1991 Marui Man Advert. They have it over on youtube. Worth checking out if you have a decent connection.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=qjdP4pQFHoY

    Metal gear solid should have actually resulted in an updated remake of the gun. strange that it didnt. Pity that it didnt!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    metal gear solid on the playstation isnt the first of the metal gear solid games though, it originaly came out on the nes in '87


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Ah yes, they were on the nes.

    but i meant the whole Famas era. Didnt start till ps1. ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    http://www.nesfiles.com/NES/Metal_Gear/Metal_Gear_boxfront.jpg

    Looks like some form of Mac with loads of stuff on it!

    Ah Solid Snake, a man with a quality taste in arms.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Indeed I know. I've been meaning to get a copy for my Nes. Was no European release though. So It'll have to come from the states.

    See, that game you're talking about there is Metal GEAR.

    Metal gear solid starts on the playstation 1. Same character. New incarnation. New guns. New look. the word "solid" attached onto the end of the title. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    same difference.

    Have you tried looking for an emulator and downloading it as a rom?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Yeah I have it. But another one of my expensive hobbies is collecting old consoles and games. I have quite a lot. Something about playing it on the original console that roms just cant replicate ;)

    Sometimes a game I want will come up, there'll be a gun I want, and an Animation cel I want too. Damn, for someone with no money, I sure know how to spend it :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    i get ya,


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Harekin


    Me too...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Anyway, back on topic...either of you two interested in the Cm028?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    link or pic?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    It's what this thread is originally about! hah, shows how off topic we got. Theres a pic of the retractable stock version on the first page.

    I had a go of them the other day. They seemed like the best built out of all the clones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    I know, it was a joke....

    Hmmm, I just got a very nice phone call, seems somebody found a bunch of AK’s and a spiffy new rifle in a field and I get to have them…..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    hmm. my sarcasm detector seems to not be working.

    Well the owner of those rifles will be pretty displeased if he doesn't get them back ;)

    Actually I really hope he sorts out that business and gets it going. He has a link to the manufacturer. Wasn't just buying them from gunners.

    Could be our source for lots of cheap clones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    could be, i doubt he will get the over powerd rifle back in which case i might, not likely. i like to see what sort of stuff he can bring in, and then buy most of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    You and your habbit :D

    How many you have now in total?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    5 and 2 will be ordered next week along with a possible 2 others.


    The 2 mp5ks only count as one realy as they will only be for duel weilding because im sick of pistols.
    im thinkin of getting a maruzen sawn off shotgun just to see what its like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    5 and 2 will be ordered next week along with a possible 2 others.


    The 2 mp5ks only count as one realy as they will only be for duel weilding because im sick of pistols.
    im thinkin of getting a maruzen sawn off shotgun just to see what its like.

    I bet you wish you had more then two arms :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    LIGHTNING wrote:
    An interesting footnote about the boxart for the nes version it was modelled on Michael Biehn from Terminator 1. If you recall he has the same pose in the film.As for the weapons choice I`ll leave that up to the proper agent, Sam Fisher FTW!

    Interesting, was unaware of this one. Reminds me of the American cover for Contra *borrowing* the setup of the Predator poster.


    predator.jpg

    Contra.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    cant help but think that that contra games characters are based on both action stars of the time, arnie and stalone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Yeah.
    Pain in the arse the way we didnt get that over here. No, they decide to take the main characters out, replace them with robots and rename it Probotector.


    what the hell...?

    Bizarre.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Spitfire666


    o1s1n wrote:
    Yeah.
    .....No, they decide to take the main characters out, replace them with robots and rename it Probotector........

    Sound kinky.



    Right im unwell so im off to bed. nite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    night! Bet you have dreams of skirmishing. Sometimes I do. It worries me a little :eek:


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