"Background for reference: Army infantry through the 80's and 90's, milsim for about 15 years now. I've owned and built more airsoft guns than my therapist knows about. I have very demanding and unrealistic expectations of what an airsoft replica should be so, with that in mind, the limited edition Arcturus PP-19 PE is the first AEG I've bought that literally made me say, Wow, I'm done. It's a very good looking copy of a bad-ass looking "AK meets MP5 SD" platform. Solid, high quality steel with an excellent real-steel finish on a well thought out, but not over done Zenit AK 9mm package, with a good looking suppressor AND flash hider option, and 2 midcaps, picatinny rail sections, patches, well written instructions and documentations...It's like an actual human really cared. But that's not the best part. The best part is when you put in a battery and pull the trigger. I ALWAYS re-build my AEGs form the ground up, and always with non-programmable GATE mosfets. The Perun optical mosfets in the Arcturus PP-19 sounded complex and made me nervous, until I pulled the trigger. Now I'm a convert, I've seen the light. Wow. Out of the box, I'm ready to run this on the field. I plan to put in a longer Madbull 6.03 inner barrel and Maple leaf bucking within the included suppressor, but that's it. The trigger response and ROF are amazing. The gun shoots a QUIET 1.4 joules, and the range with the stock stubby barrel and hop up is impressive. If you're feeling the need to shoot faster, the quick change spring guide makes it possible. All in all, the best AEG I've ever purchased. I highly recommend for both the experienced/obsessive builder, and the plug and play new player with money and eye for quality.
"Bought this when i saw it was back on stock. Now this is my new favorite AK platform out of the 4 others that I owned.
Pros
Great internals,consistent fps
Great included attachment (mock suppresor, handstop,muzzle)
Great pistol grip
Great mag
Amazing look
Some Niche Pros
Charging handle can hang onto the selector switch when the switch is on full-auto. Fun because you can play with it by smacking on the upper receiver to release the pulled back handle.
The adjusable stock has a crisp clicking sound to you when you change the length
Reload is easy and hard to miss
Cons
The stock can be wobbly, both horizontally and vertically, both folded and extended. But you can fix this by laying down some tiny patches of tape in the connecting slot to reduce room of movement.
The upper reciever does not secure 100% onto the body. This will disturb the zeroing on your sights, especially if it is heavy.
The additional mag flare can only be put into place by glueing. Although imo you dont need it for both practical and aesethic reason.
It is a pricey gun, but for what it comes with I would say the price is decently fair. Coming to Milsim West next month with this PP, wish me luck
"I've had the CQB version for around five months, and it still works flawlessly. I've taken it to a field a few times now.
Pros
- The construction quality is amazing, everything that should be metal is metal
- Arcturus gives a ton of goodies inside the box, no matter if you get the CQB or the carbine version, you'll get a metal muzzle brake, a silver suppressor, a hand stop, an extra mag, some stickers, two Picatinny rail segments, a flared mag well, an Arcturus fridge magnet, and a patch corresponding to whichever model you got.
- All the Zenitco parts have Zenitco trades and Russian text, although they will say Arcturus Tactical instead of the Zenitco site for copyright reasons, though it is tiny and you won't really see it.
- The internals are excellent, Arcturus said if you were to try and upgrade any of the internals, you'd most likely be downgrading it, which is a bold claim, but for this gun, it is 100 percent true.
- It also comes with a Perun V3 mosfet, which can be a little confusing to navigate at first, but Arcturus provides a manual in the box.
- If you open up the gun, you can mechanically change how short your trigger pull is, 4UAD airsoft has a video showing this.
- On the selector switch, there is a tiny ledge that allows you to switch from safe to semi or full auto easily, it's a small but really good addition.
- The magazines are way better than the LCT mags, they feed flawlessly and you can take it out of the shell, and change it to a real cap if you want to, and even then they're relatively cheap at only $16 per magazine. Just note that the LCT magazines will NOT work with the Arcturus version, as it is 1-1 with the actual Vityaz, so the magazine sizes are different.
- The orange flash hider is extremely easy to take off, all you need is an Allen key set and then you can just screw it off.
- The hopup is rotary instead of the standard AK hopup, which is nice since rotary is much better than the standard AK hopup.
- The dust cover is on a hinge so you don't have to line it up every time you want to close it.
- The charging handle pulls back really far, it's almost full travel but not really. The sound is super scratchy though. This of course has no actual impact on performance since it's mock.
- Each model of the Arcturus Vityaz is limited edition with only 500 units, so it has some collectors value.
- If you go to a field with this, you'll turn some heads, every time I go to a field, I get people wondering and complimenting my gun.
Cons
- The stock is a little wobbly, but that's kind of expected since every folding stock is going to have some wobble.
- When you first get the Vityaz, the stock is going to be extremely stiff and difficult to unfold. I've found that putting upward pressure on the piece that keeps it from unfolding makes it much easier to unfold. As you unfold it more it'll get easier. It's very easy to break the stock if you don't know how to unfold it correctly so read the instructions, there's a little card in the box that shows how to unfold it. You also have to hold down the button right before you snap the stock back into place.
- The Picatinny rail on the upper handguard is useless if you have a snap-on pressure switch for your flashlight. It's slightly too wide for it to properly snap on. It works completely fine if you have screw-on attachments, but it does not work for snap-on attachments.
- This is really minor and I noticed it by pure chance, but the upper hand guard on mine seems to be ever so slightly asymmetrical, it has absolutely zero wobble and won't fall off. But it's just a small detail that bugs me.
- There's this tiny piece on the dust cover, so when you try to close it, it gets caught on the charging handle. So you have to pull back on the charging handle slightly so that the little piece can go past the charging handle, this is also a really minor annoyance but something to point out.
- There's really no way to attach the flared mag well other than just gluing it on, I personally haven't used it since I just hate the look of it.
All in all, Arcturus has seriously impressed me with this gun, this was my first gun from Arcturus but consider me an Arcturus fan now. It was really difficult to find any real cons other than minor annoyances. The Arcturus Vityaz is miles better than the LCT Vityaz and if you were to try to upgrade the LCT version so it would be just as good as the Arcturus, you'd dish out a lot more money than if you were to just buy this one. If you have the money, get this. It's criminal how good of a deal it is, superb internals, superb Zenitco externals, all for a reasonable price.
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