Blaster (Regrets)

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Most of my disappointments have been the result of being an early adopter

  • the first M16 - pre Gen 8 - twist and bend when firing and snap in two when you fell over

  • M24 - broke several bolts before I gave up trying the strengthening tricks and lashed out for metal bolt

  • APS Shark (I think) - no end of problems with magazines and sold it

  • AA357 revolver - was a waste of time, as documented on other forum. CEH swapped for AA 1911 tactical (green gas), which is still one of the best GBB pistols despite being based on Wells

  • WeTech - HiCappa 4.3 M1911 - rattles and fired all over the place until APGS fitted a GE barrel

  • Wells M9 - leaking magazine (fixed by iHobby) and poor performance (fixed by new barrel from CEH). - now performs great

  • any blaster built by a self proclaimed expert

Disappointment because of short life

  • Wells G17’s - just wore them out in games. Need to find someone to rebuild the hammers with some decent parts. Performed great until the hammer issue causes all the gas to be expelled from the mag

Tac Gear disappointment

  • any drop leg cloth holster
  • plate carriers held together with wire
  • Amorex universal holsters
  • MP7 holster
  • Lack of standard screw spacing between Safariland and other nylon holsters
  • Duty belts off AliExpress - always shorter than stated
  • lack of decent tac gear for those of us who have achieved a mature figure

Other stuff that has become unnecessary or useless

  • reflex sights - can’t beat good old magpul popup iron sights
  • 3 - 9x scope
  • sight risers
  • pic rails for AK or M16 handle
  • Rizer Hop-ups - not as good as short AKA
  • M120 springs
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You have inspired me to make a new thread, with this post. Tac gear for hefty folk.

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lol I’ll allow it :smile: considering the deceptive marketing tactics of retailers. Scamming a sober or inebriated individual is still scamming

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I started typing a similar length list to yours but it just beeping depressed me so gave up. So many over promises / under deliveries. So much bad support after purchasing, even literally on the same day.

Im glad i look at most of mine as just collectors items now and other than than to many M4 derivatives, i don’t really regret many of the buys now, but at the time, for many of them - soooo angry.

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The revolver was definitely a heap of shit. Sent that back. To not return anything but money.

The Shark otoh I’ve had success with after a few mods suggested by an old forum member. Held up fine thus far.

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I’ve been pretty lucky in that most of my regrets were learning processes, pushing things too far, expecting too much from good parts in cheap nylon boxes etc. But I have some notable numbers.

Skd Beretta.
Bought it, blew circuit board at first game. Fixed it. Second game barrel shot out. Fixed it. Next game? Circuit board blew. Turned out I had a seized mag motor that would blow the board every time, binned the spare mag… forth game, circuit board blew. I took great pleasure in hoiking it at a wall and watching my first pistol explode into many bits.

Well 1911 and fabric drop leg holster.
I was one of the first to get a 1911. Yes. Spent the first game loosing mags and the pistol from the holster. Got a better one for next time. The pistol actually worked okay. I was lucky. I did shoot my mate with the barrel as it flew out once. Fixed it. Eventually the mag seals went… fixed and okay when they eventually came into stock nearly 6 months later. Sold it. Happy again!
Also kept the fabric holster and years later it now is a great mobile leg home for my 40mm. So a regret that ended well.

Gen9.
Now I still technically own my first blaster, and my first gen9. It has an mk box and is awesome. It’s kinda not the original gen9 anymore as I had done enough work and mods and use that the upper receiver broke, and the receiver is the only jm gen9 part left!
What I do regret is buying 5 of them!
On one hand they served well, and seen countless games and 100s of 1000s of gels so all good. But in the end to get them where I wanted them they need an mk box. End of. And I just couldn’t justify keeping them as I would end up buying too many mk boxes, and by this time v2 boxes were much better options and far more prevalent so sold them all.

I now refuse to buy anything new until it is been in the wild for 6 months. Once something passes the “6 month test” I am aware of weak points, parts availability, and have usually worked on them also. I am fortunate that I get to work on blasters I don’t own, so I get to be familiar with blasters I haven’t forked out for at times… Which leads me to my last regret…

Double bell aks.
I waited 6 months to get one. And love it. It’s great. I replaced the oring and cylinder, radiused it… nothing else as shimming was good… and it does 390fps all day on semi and full auto. Decent accuracy, and over all… it’s good. The only blaster I’ve not changed a shim on and been happy with ever. I want more. Love aks, and they have a good range of them! But the price has increased across the range of db aks, and I’m too much of a tight ass to fork out for them. At least this regret keeps my wife happy! (Until I see them on sale again!)

I have a massive list of internal parts and build mistakes and regrets from 5 years of playing with them… but ain’t going into that! Any mistake and broken part is an opportunity to learn, so I will take it.

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@RokSolid
Sounds very much like my whole experience buying, collecting and building blasters for myself and others :joy:

I’m not even going to make my list just yet…… will take a bottle of Jacks and some therapy to reduce some of the flashbacks and trauma :flushed:

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Interesting topic, thanks to the advice on the old forum and probably due to my limited time on the gelball field dont have to many regrets. Mainly my earlier buys.

  1. fjs hk416. 3rd blaster and bought on facebook marketplace for 150. My regret was not doing enough research , i thought i was getting an ltd as i thought that all their was. And yeah thing was rubbish, worse then the jm scar i had.

  2. m92 aeg pistol. 2nd blaster i got, paid retail and i wish i skiped it and went straight to gas pistols.

  3. not so much a regret but wished it worked better. Ltd m203 launcher, one of the two grenades is a pain to fill. But the main issue is the firing mechanism, its hit and miss if it fires.

  4. any tactical gear from gel stores. Thigh holster, mag holder etc. Its all rubbish, spend twice the price at a proper combat/tactical gear store but its 4x better.

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No regrets :rofl:

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Jesus n here i am all torn up with wanting more but also only wanting what ill ever use

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Recently had the urge to build a hpa sniper.
After a long search I found the only hpa bolt in Aus at a store that was closing down.
Rushed in and made the hefty purchase after the staff told me it will fit into the DB VSR-10 SNIPER RIFLE.
So I hunted the net and bought the rifle for an exceptional price.
Low and behold the bolt was to big for the receiver.
So far I have honed the receiver :sweat:and the bolt slides fine, but now I have to hone the barrel to allow the bolt to fit in there.
I have a fine line between having a broken barrel and a tight bolt.
Over $700 in and feeling some regret,
But screw that, I’m getting this done.

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Sadly, that doesn’t include everything in the shed😳
Or the shelving unit and rack you can’t see in the pic.
But yes I probably have more blaster parts than I will ever use :rofl::rofl:

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Skd glock. Was decent till it stoped feeding.

Cyma m4 (all 4 of them and the one im buying later today), not because they are bad. Im pretty happy with them overall. But because spare parts and upgrades are harder to come by. Them having slightly different parts vs standard dosent help. Like the piston, cylinder head, mags and buffer tube. I blame @DocBob. If i were to start over with my stable, id go jm just for simplicity. Tactoys (sigh) US is stocking more stuff and popularity is increasing on this side of the earth, so that regret may change.

A stainless steel 7.3mm barrel. Contolled growing, and having different gels then my kids made it a pain. Esp since its rare i ever have super fresh gels on hand.

Bf p90. Mags are a pain in the ass. From loading, to swapping, cleaning and feeding. Rear grip puts my wrist at a really uncomfortable angle.

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To be fair…… I was still always a Gen8 tragic trying something “modern” with the JUND/CYMA M4 CQB’s…… but still went back to the old faithful Gen8 powered blasters every single time :joy::+1:

Lesson learnt…… newer doesn’t always necessarily mean better!

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As far as this thread include blaster-related equipments
i utterly regret buying 2 grips, rail cover for my Hk416
first off, i have 0 clue what were i thinking when i made that purchase, i was really happy at first but then i started thinking like: Dude you only need a grip! NOT 2 AND a full set of rail cover!!
turned out my mind was right, i ONLY NEED 1 SINGLE GRIP from the whole list
but i only made that realization after i received the products and i have 0 chance of returning it due to the seller’s policies lmao

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Ahhh yes the purchasing remorse …we have all made this mistake haha :sweat_smile:
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Sooo many blasters over the years, sooo many regrets… :laughing:

I’ve had buyer’s regret with just about everything I’ve bought, keep thinking what else I could have spent the bucks on :thinking:

But I keep building the collection, although it’s more the old school weirdo classics I look for these days. If I could get my hands on an old MA5C Halo I’d go to town on that. A lot of the new offerings are either overpriced or just more of the same ol’ same ol’… :wink:

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I regret every pistol that ive owned… they were just not useful where I play and I found the actual firing of a gel to be inconsistent.

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So far it’s just the YS-08 manual springer pistol because it didn’t work right out the box

however I do regret not going all out on the young fellas first blaster, the temu ones were great for the glow hopper fun n they do hit averagely decent, still need to chrono them for shits and giggles, but yeah should’ve just got him the hk416 he ended up with right off the bat, just didn’t want a bunch of the exact same blasters floating around the house getting mixed up who’s was whos, thought it’d be better getting everyone something different to avoid confusion and arguments lol

I also regret not shopping around more thoroughly as I did over pay here and there, but on the same token, store reputation comes into play with that as well tho

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Ebay used to be full of blasters, some good ones too, not just the flouro grafitti ones.

They stopped that a long time ago, probably because people in banned states were ordering them and it was probably easier to just shit can the lot than have to filter through purchase requests from Vic, etc…

Now you’re pretty much limited to the websites of the major retailers if you want better quality. :man_shrugging:

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