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Originally Posted by ThunderCactus
hows the grouping?
hows the hopup on it?
whats the range? (good, great, ridiculous)
how consistent is each shot?
and is it compatible with most airsoft accessories? (G&P ACOG, AN/PEQ unit)
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Range is superfluous. By that, I mean, your useful accuracy is likely diminished by the time it lands... it all very dependant on how the hop-up likes your BB choice.
Thats brings me to BB choice. People have had various degrees of success in different aspects with different BBs. Some are generally accurate, but occasionally stop-up in the mag and won't feed. Some fee perfectly but if they break they get fragments in the gun, etc, etc...
FWIW, I did a fairly comprehensive shoot-off at 100' between Excel, Metal-tech, Marui and Tippmann .25 BBs. I can tell you that the Tippmann should be avoided at all costs. The Maruis actually won, hitting (as I recall) 18/20 average on an 8.5x11" paper at 100'. The numbers weren't significantly better than the Metal techs or Excels however, but I choose Maruis because they all feed perfectly for me so far. 0 'dry-fires' due to the mag telling the gun its got ammo coming, but its stuck in the mag. I did have feeding issues with the Tippmann and Metal Techs, as did other owners.
Metal techs are better quality than Marui though. They hold together when impacted where the Maruis explode into tiny pieces. This is of concern due to the fact that if the systema doesn't like a particular BB, the nozzle will simply chop it. I haven't had this happen with anything but the Tippmanns thus far, but it would be trouble if it happened with the Maruis because they would disintegrate and likely end up partly in the mechbox via the nozzle. Something to be aware of.
In the end - the systema is a BB machine and ammo selection is more important than with a typical AEG. Bad BBs make for laughable trajectories with a systema, whereas the right ammo will make you quite proud to hold it. That said, its not realistic to expect to hit anything at 300' even though you'll see your BB disppear at least that far. I still wait for better opportunities to fire just like the 'old days' of AEG weilding.