ARES Airsoft Full Size L1A1 Battle Rifle Airsoft AEG (Color: Synthetic Furniture)

"This gun is the best looking gun in my collection without a doubt. This thing turns heads wherever I take it. I also strive to be unique when it comes to airsoft (straying away from your average Multicam+M4 loadout or hoodie+DyeMask+Hi cappa that shoots like 9 millions rounds a second). To say the least, Aesthetic is important for me. This gun gets a 10 out of 10 for aesthetics. Now, as for practicality.. that's a whole different story. I'll address the issues below;

PROS:

- Real wood furniture!!
- Feels nice to hold despite its somewhat heavy weight & awkward build
- Hopup is very easy to adjust and stays in place despite what others say, perhaps I just got lucky with mine?
- Mid caps are lightweight despite their metal construction. The mid caps feel high quality
- full metal construction! Haven't found any flimsy/cheap plastic bits on this gun
- The barrels threading is painted orange. The L1A1 comes with a flash hider! I've never seen any company do this before! I feel like more companies should start doing this!
- Disassembly is rather easy compared to other AEGs
- A dust cover with picatinny rails is available for purchase for a reasonable price
- Shoots at about 370 with .20s and a 9.6v battery. This may be a con for some, but I hate DMR rules.
- It's unique looking and badass. I guarantee you're not gonna see another person with this at your field

CONS:

- Despite the full metal construction & wood furniture, it feels flimsy. A lot of parts on this gun were loose when I first received this. The hand guard felt a little loose, but that was fixed easily
- The barrel always comes loose after about 2 matches. It hardly effects accuracy but its annoying
- Tamiya battery connector popped off the very first time I used it. I've had to have this gun re-wired at least 3 times because of it..
- Mid caps are kind of pricey
- little to no accuracy without using at least .28s. Using .25s and lower makes this gun almost completely useless. The bbs spread all over the place if you don't use heavier bbs.
- the barrel is flimsy. The littlest of pressure on the barrel causes the barrel to bend, causing bbs to fly up into the heavens. This even happens whenThis gun is the best looking gun in my collection without a doubt. This thing turns heads wherever I take it. I also strive to be unique when it comes to airsoft (straying away from your average Multicam+M4 loadout or hoodie+DyeMask+Hi cappa that shoots like 9 millions rounds a second). To say the least, Aesthetic is important for me. This gun gets a 10 out of 10 for aesthetics. Now, as for practicality.. that's a whole different story. I'll address the issues below;

PROS:

- Real wood furniture!!
- Feels nice to hold despite its somewhat heavy weight & awkward build
- Hopup is very easy to adjust and stays in place despite what others say, perhaps I just got lucky with mine?
- Mid caps are lightweight despite their metal construction. The mid caps feel high quality
- full metal construction! Haven't found any flimsy/cheap plastic bits on this gun
- The barrels threading is painted orange. The L1A1 comes with a flash hider! I've never seen any company do this before! I feel like more companies should start doing this!
- Disassembly is rather easy compared to other AEGs
- A dust cover with picatinny rails is available for purchase for a reasonable price
- Shoots at about 370 with .20s and a 9.6v battery. This may be a con for some, but I hate DMR rules.
- It's unique looking and badass. I guarantee you're not gonna see another person with this at your field

CONS:

- Despite the quality of materials, it is quite flimsy out of the box.
- Mid caps are on the pricey side
- The outer barrel sort of comes loose every now and then, it's an easy fix though.
- Tamiya battery connector popped off the first time I used it. Fixing it wasn't easy in the least! I've had to have my friend re-wire this gun at least 3 times
- Any pressure on the barrel causes the bbs to fly into the heavens. The barrel is just flimsy
- You have to use at least .28s unless you want this gun to be a semi-auto scatter gun. For some reason, .25s go flying in every direction. Not too sure why.. I can't even imagine what .20s would do in this thing
- Batteries will not fit in the stock properly unless you take the plate off of the stock, which looks kinda ugly
- The finish on the wood comes off really easily, revealing cheap looking wood
- The stock is very loose. I have not been able to fix this issue for some reason..
- Its freakin' expensive. The L1A1 is 600$ for the wood furniture. It's still expensive for the synthetic furniture version (530$)
- The L1A1 occasionally 'chokes' and jams when you fire too fast. Not really sure what the issue is with that though? I've never encountered this issue with any other gun before

For all the issues that I've encountered with this gun, I say its not worth the 600.. It looks really nice but is not practical at all. It's more trouble than it is worth in my opinion. I still think it looks beautiful! If this gun was not as wobbly and troublesome then I'd say it's totally worth it. Also some better wood finish on the furniture would be nice. I think I am going to retire this gun & use it for decoration.