EMG / Daniel Defense Licensed SOPMOD Block II w/ GATE ASTER Programmable MOSFET (Model: Mk18 / Cerakote Mil-Spec Brown)

"I am only giving this a 3 star review because of the Daniel Defense licensing and realistic feel. However the rest of the gun is a 1 star. I originally bought the gun on a Thursday for an op on Saturday. after opening the box i was stoked to fire it and break it in before the op but little to my surprise the gun did not work. I immediately called customer service and they were super nice and said bring it back to the store and they will evaluate it. That was great but it is a 75 mile drive for me one way and 150 round trip. So I went back Friday and they took care of me, they needed to update the software for the Aster. all seemed amazing and drove back home and started breaking the gun by firing at some boxes in the back yard. On Saturday I played for 5 hours but on the last op the gun decided not to work. Thinking it was a jam I pulled my self form the op and went to un-jam the gun, however it was not jammed. The gun was still making a winding sound and nothing was happening. I looked at the set screw for the motor and it was still in the same place. So I pulled the motor and noticed the Pinion gear screw was backed out and the pinion was moving on the shaft. I tightened the pinion gear down figuring this was the issue and unfortunately it did not solve the problem.

I sit here with a $400++ dollar gun that does not work after one opp and extremely disappointed!!! The store did say they will fix it if I bring it back or exchange it for something else as they did not have another DD replica. This means I need to drive another 75 miles each way to get this fixed.

Also I forgot to mention after initial try to break in the hop up and then 5 hours of play this gun is not accurate at all and no matter how much hop there was it would not shoot consistent groupings! A customized gun should always outperform a stock factory shipped gun and this one is not that gun right off the shelf!

I do want to say that EVIKE customer service has been great, and this review is about the lack of consistency, quality, and craftsmanship of this product.

"Gun has great externals, but internet are pretty basic as is expected from a standard g&p gearbox. The aster has been a pain I've had 2 die on me. The first one was cracked, and the other die after 1000bbs.

Would not buy again

"Great gun, easy to program, nice packaging, the bucking is SUPER lubed and unusable. Also, it has 14mm- threads so the 14mm+ flash hider I bought for it doesn’t fit. Piston strips fast as it doesn’t have a full metal rack. Good base plate form for someone who wants a fully licensed, attractive rifle that is a solid UPGRADE PLATFORM.

"When I first got this gun I had many problems with it.
First is that a lot of mags won’t fit into this gun especially the PTS Mags which is a HUGE BUMMER. Second is that my hop up is completely not working doesn’t shoot accurately and the bbs drop bad. The motor gets really hot really fast. Overall I’ll give it a 3 star just for how terrible it is out of the box when I got it. First of I don’t even wanna sent it back and wait for like another week and a half just to get this gun working...