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LCT Stamped Steel RPKS74MN Airsoft AEG Light Machinegun w/ Side Folding Stock (Model: Standard AEG w/ GATE Aster)
13 Customer Reviews
by tyler m. on 06/01/2023
"I love it! pair this with the LCT Drum mag and your set to go. Shoots far, fast. Do note mine came front wired. overall a solid gun as LCT has always been. great performance and always gets attention.
by Ronald S. on 06/17/2022
"First off this gun is 10/10 for me i mean seriously running full auto with a perfect record and no stoppages running a titan 7.4v Lipo. My only and I mean only problem with it is there is no mag well spacer for it so reloading with it takes some getting used to at first
by Andrew P. on 05/15/2022
"So I bought this about a month ago, before I even played with it, I'll be fair I did some modifications to make sure it does what I want it to. However, most of that doesn't effect the base functions.
Out of the box it fires 440 with .20's but if you're using 20's in this I have some serious questions about your intelligence. I've ran 28's and 30's out of it and get 355-365 and 330 fps out of it respectively. The accuracy over distance is where this thing really shines. This thing will outdistance a lot of base sniper rifles. That 500+ mm barrel is what does that, especially since it comes with a 6.02 tightbore in it already. I'm plinking guys at 200 feet easily
Additions/Modifications
Gate Aster V3 MOSFET with ETU to protect the internals from my 11.1's, programmed to safe/3 round burst/semi
I had it rear wired as well, brick types are a bit tight, but they'll be fine after 2 minutes of Dremeling, butterfly types should be fine in this configuration as well.
removed rear sight
Overall this thing is an amazing LMG, with some minor adjustments you'll be perfectly fine. Yeah, it's a bit heavy but it's an LMG, what do you expect?
Out of the box it fires 440 with .20's but if you're using 20's in this I have some serious questions about your intelligence. I've ran 28's and 30's out of it and get 355-365 and 330 fps out of it respectively. The accuracy over distance is where this thing really shines. This thing will outdistance a lot of base sniper rifles. That 500+ mm barrel is what does that, especially since it comes with a 6.02 tightbore in it already. I'm plinking guys at 200 feet easily
Additions/Modifications
Gate Aster V3 MOSFET with ETU to protect the internals from my 11.1's, programmed to safe/3 round burst/semi
I had it rear wired as well, brick types are a bit tight, but they'll be fine after 2 minutes of Dremeling, butterfly types should be fine in this configuration as well.
removed rear sight
Overall this thing is an amazing LMG, with some minor adjustments you'll be perfectly fine. Yeah, it's a bit heavy but it's an LMG, what do you expect?
by Luke R. on 04/09/2021
"This is one of the best guns you will ever buy. Much more affordable than a pkm.
Out of the box it hits a wopping 400 fps with .20s but I recommend .25 or even .30s. The entire thing is made of metal, except the furniture which is very high quality polymer and the flash hider ( it's in two pieces the orange rim and the full flash hider, I hit the end on a pallet while playing and the orange piece broke off leaving the hider fine.) although the rear sight block seems to be of high ( but still lower quality then the rest of the gun) quality steel. The guns weight is quiet nice and heavy around 15 pounds If I'm guessing right. One down side is that it doesint have a button to release the stock so what I did was took a piece of electrical tape and put a bb on the tape and put the bb in the hole to release the stock and boom a button! Bipod Is nice and sturdy and really adds to the gun, although kinda useless Like most airsoft bipods so don't bother to use it unless your going to be there a while.
Pro's.
Heavy
Hits hard
Very durable
Internals are reliable
Fire rates good
Looks so freaking cool 😎
Con's.
Polymer furniture is more durable than wood but wood looks cooler
No stock release but I fixed that
Mags wobble but it's a rpk so doesint really make difference
Uses big type conncter but I took the stock off and switched it to small...
Take my word for it you will dominate the airsoft field
Out of the box it hits a wopping 400 fps with .20s but I recommend .25 or even .30s. The entire thing is made of metal, except the furniture which is very high quality polymer and the flash hider ( it's in two pieces the orange rim and the full flash hider, I hit the end on a pallet while playing and the orange piece broke off leaving the hider fine.) although the rear sight block seems to be of high ( but still lower quality then the rest of the gun) quality steel. The guns weight is quiet nice and heavy around 15 pounds If I'm guessing right. One down side is that it doesint have a button to release the stock so what I did was took a piece of electrical tape and put a bb on the tape and put the bb in the hole to release the stock and boom a button! Bipod Is nice and sturdy and really adds to the gun, although kinda useless Like most airsoft bipods so don't bother to use it unless your going to be there a while.
Pro's.
Heavy
Hits hard
Very durable
Internals are reliable
Fire rates good
Looks so freaking cool 😎
Con's.
Polymer furniture is more durable than wood but wood looks cooler
No stock release but I fixed that
Mags wobble but it's a rpk so doesint really make difference
Uses big type conncter but I took the stock off and switched it to small...
Take my word for it you will dominate the airsoft field
by Austin D. on 09/12/2020
"To put it as bluntly as possible this is one of the best airsoft rifles I've purchased.
I bought this rifle a few months ago to satisfy my desire for an Ak pattern rifle and a light machine gun, and it has yet to disappoint me. The fire rate is very high with an 11.1v lipo and with the extra barrel length, it shoots hard, fast, and with supreme accuracy. not to mention the entire thing is made of steel, from the receiver to the barrel to all the controls this thing is built to last.
Pros.
-phenomenal build quality
-great rate of fire (with 11.1 lipo)
-quite accurate
-folds for transportation
Cons
-really heavy (10lbs flat with magazine)
-only comes with a 100rd mid-cap magazine that broke on me after a few games.
overall this is a solid rpk, it's built like a tank, shoots straight, and with a steel drum mag would be a damn near perfect squad support weapon. just make sure if you buy it you have, or buy, extra magazines because you will need them
I bought this rifle a few months ago to satisfy my desire for an Ak pattern rifle and a light machine gun, and it has yet to disappoint me. The fire rate is very high with an 11.1v lipo and with the extra barrel length, it shoots hard, fast, and with supreme accuracy. not to mention the entire thing is made of steel, from the receiver to the barrel to all the controls this thing is built to last.
Pros.
-phenomenal build quality
-great rate of fire (with 11.1 lipo)
-quite accurate
-folds for transportation
Cons
-really heavy (10lbs flat with magazine)
-only comes with a 100rd mid-cap magazine that broke on me after a few games.
overall this is a solid rpk, it's built like a tank, shoots straight, and with a steel drum mag would be a damn near perfect squad support weapon. just make sure if you buy it you have, or buy, extra magazines because you will need them
by Brandon m. on 11/28/2017
"Best airsoft gun I have ever purchased externals are fantastic and well build and internals are great also
Pros:
Well built
Great quality for a reasonable price
No magazine wobble at all
Cons:
Foldable stock seems impossible to fold
metal latch that holds the bipod makes it hard to deploy
Pros:
Well built
Great quality for a reasonable price
No magazine wobble at all
Cons:
Foldable stock seems impossible to fold
metal latch that holds the bipod makes it hard to deploy
by Eric O. on 08/27/2016
"Very good build quality blued steel looks amazing, shoots amazing right out of the box.
Gun did jam after first 1000 rounds, but it was an easy fix. There was a slight bit of rust on mine but it was oiled very well.
Gun did jam after first 1000 rounds, but it was an easy fix. There was a slight bit of rust on mine but it was oiled very well.
by kenneth g. on 07/23/2016
"Pretty good LMG c :
Pros:
Good for removing NATO from premises
Steel contruction
stable Bipod
Pretty nice price for LCT stuff
Cons:
May shoot too "hot" for some fields (clocked 405 fps), downgrade spring if hot
Side Mount may not fit well with some mounts due to the stock release button
10/10 Would buy again
Pros:
Good for removing NATO from premises
Steel contruction
stable Bipod
Pretty nice price for LCT stuff
Cons:
May shoot too "hot" for some fields (clocked 405 fps), downgrade spring if hot
Side Mount may not fit well with some mounts due to the stock release button
10/10 Would buy again
by Jesse J. on 10/24/2023
"It's a beautiful replica and I want to love it but there have been too many issues out of the box for me.
For me this is an at home plinker so some of the issues, which would be fatal to a skirmishable replica, aren't that big of a deal but they're still annoying.
The rifle came out of the box with a hop-up unit positioned incorrectly in the receiver. No magazine would lock into the gun. As the hopup sits on the barrel extension which is threaded into the outer barrel and secured with grub screws on the trunnion there isn't a good way to fix this. If LCT had not opted to use taper pins to secure the RSB, gas block, HG retainer, and FSB I could have fixed this problem by adjusting the depth of the outer barrel. This could have been done by rotating the outer barrel a few threads in or out of the extension allowing the hop unit to set a little bit further back. An easy job when you can simply use the set screws on the other parts to realign them true. When LCT made these kits for Guarder back in the day this is how hop unit position was adjusted. Now they locktite and use pins so you'd best hope whom ever assembling it was having a good day.
Initially though we believed that the issue was the magazine catch so with some massaging we managed to insert a magazine only to find out it was the hopup's position in the receiver. The hopup unit deformed with this action requiring replacement.
Our first replacement part, an EMG branded Retro Arms CNC hop unit, required extensive fitting and light machining. In the end even after fitting this unit it did nothing to remedy the problem as again the depth the barrel extension sits on the receiver is the problem.
The second replacement was a Lonex hopup unit, which has enough slack in the mounting holes that we were able to massage the unit into the correct position allowing magazines to lock in easily. Air seal was not affected by this as the unit was still adequately flush with the gearbox not that it matters because the factory piston head had absolutely no air seal to begin with. This is another problem I've found on most of the modern LCT guns I've purchased.
Once the Lonex was in all was still not well however. Due to the positioning of the barrel extension which we figured out also has a slight cant in the trunnion the hop unit does not sit low enough to pick up bbs. The gun will only feed if you hold back on the magazine and thankfully there's enough slack in the release and receiver for this to work. Most LCT AKs have this slack, but this is the only one in my collection I have to hold back on the magazine to get it to feed and function.
I found that using Arcturus magazines seems to resolve the feeding issue but only due to the fact that Arcturus magazines have thicker locking lugs. To better resolve this issue I plan on fitting a RS Romanian AKM magazine latch to the replica and adjusting the height of the catch with a file until it feeds correctly. I've encountered this problem three times now and twice I've fixed the guns and made them accept every TM compatible magazine by fitting a RS latch.
With the feed issue somewhat resolved we move onto the battery space and wiring problems.
This gun is front wired to the handguard and there is no space for any battery found here. LCT has an OEM manufacture a battery for this gun and it's shown in the catalogue but it's not available in the US. So what do you do? You either run a battery box or re-wire the gun to the stock.
I opted to re-wire the gun. Re-wiring and routing the wires was easy however I will mention that the steel in the trunnion and stock hinge are heat treated. I burned up two TiN bits drilling a hole to route wires through and I was using cutting oil so they must be heat treating these parts at LCT. Wiring is routed down the left side of the gearbox and through the shelf where the back of the gearbox rests. There's just enough space there to route wiring without pinching.
With the battery in the stock you're not going to want to fold it unless you've made a generous hole and used heat shrink on the wires. Without heat shrink or an adequately sized hole you'll end up damaging the wiring by folding the stock. A G&G style "powered hinge" solution would be ideal and something LCT should consider incorporating on future replicas.
The stock is almost entirely hollow so you could run one of the old school brick batteries in there if you so chose.
With the battery compartment issue resolved we move on to the EBB bolt.
The EBB bolt is kept in position by a small square piece of plastic. The tapered edge faces the shooter when the block is inserted into the rear sight block. This part falls out when the bolt is removed and on my example doesn't do much to keep the bolt in it's correct position. I will likely have to 3d print a slightly thicker block or disable the EBB feature on my replica to resolve this as using the replica with a poorly fitting block or no block at all can damage the gearbox.
To make take down easier I epoxy the plates in place on my other LCT EBBs. Once epoxied you can take the bolt in and out as much as you want to show off the fake piston without worrying about losing the plate.
This replica unlike the other LCT rifles I've bought did not come with the correct flash hider in the box. You have to order it separate. Mildly irritating.
One last irritating thing to note. The cleaning rod is too short for the replica and sits too far back. To rectify this I had to install a RS Saiga 20" sporter cleaning rod I had in my parts bin. Further, the LCT cleaning rod is of two piece construction and came apart under EBB recoil. LCT needs to re-design this part if they're going to faithfully replicate an RPK.
On to actually shooting the replica.
I had to replace the spring on mine as the gun came to me with the piston locked back out of the box. The spring inside the gearbox was significantly shorter than a new spring and produced 155-160 FPS with .2s so it was replaced with an M100.
With the new M100 spring and .25s the rifle will fling bbs out to 150 feet without issue. it's an accurate replica and a joy to shoot as long as you can live with it's little gremlins. At approx. 150 feet I was able to keep all of my bbs inside of a B5 style target. (Torso). It will serve it's purpose as a collector's piece and an at home shooter but it will never be skirmishable in it's current state.
Despite all the problems I am happy with my purchase though given the fact that out of the last 5 LCT replicas I've purchased only two have been good to go out of the box I won't be purchasing any further LCT replicas sight unseen. I will pay the rental fee at an outpost or EVIKE main store to function test before I buy.
Would I still recommend this gun? If either you can test fire before you buy or you're mechanically inclined up for a challenge and not easily frustrated then absolutely.. Remember, it's the journey not the destination and anything worth doing is going to take time and effort. :)
For me this is an at home plinker so some of the issues, which would be fatal to a skirmishable replica, aren't that big of a deal but they're still annoying.
The rifle came out of the box with a hop-up unit positioned incorrectly in the receiver. No magazine would lock into the gun. As the hopup sits on the barrel extension which is threaded into the outer barrel and secured with grub screws on the trunnion there isn't a good way to fix this. If LCT had not opted to use taper pins to secure the RSB, gas block, HG retainer, and FSB I could have fixed this problem by adjusting the depth of the outer barrel. This could have been done by rotating the outer barrel a few threads in or out of the extension allowing the hop unit to set a little bit further back. An easy job when you can simply use the set screws on the other parts to realign them true. When LCT made these kits for Guarder back in the day this is how hop unit position was adjusted. Now they locktite and use pins so you'd best hope whom ever assembling it was having a good day.
Initially though we believed that the issue was the magazine catch so with some massaging we managed to insert a magazine only to find out it was the hopup's position in the receiver. The hopup unit deformed with this action requiring replacement.
Our first replacement part, an EMG branded Retro Arms CNC hop unit, required extensive fitting and light machining. In the end even after fitting this unit it did nothing to remedy the problem as again the depth the barrel extension sits on the receiver is the problem.
The second replacement was a Lonex hopup unit, which has enough slack in the mounting holes that we were able to massage the unit into the correct position allowing magazines to lock in easily. Air seal was not affected by this as the unit was still adequately flush with the gearbox not that it matters because the factory piston head had absolutely no air seal to begin with. This is another problem I've found on most of the modern LCT guns I've purchased.
Once the Lonex was in all was still not well however. Due to the positioning of the barrel extension which we figured out also has a slight cant in the trunnion the hop unit does not sit low enough to pick up bbs. The gun will only feed if you hold back on the magazine and thankfully there's enough slack in the release and receiver for this to work. Most LCT AKs have this slack, but this is the only one in my collection I have to hold back on the magazine to get it to feed and function.
I found that using Arcturus magazines seems to resolve the feeding issue but only due to the fact that Arcturus magazines have thicker locking lugs. To better resolve this issue I plan on fitting a RS Romanian AKM magazine latch to the replica and adjusting the height of the catch with a file until it feeds correctly. I've encountered this problem three times now and twice I've fixed the guns and made them accept every TM compatible magazine by fitting a RS latch.
With the feed issue somewhat resolved we move onto the battery space and wiring problems.
This gun is front wired to the handguard and there is no space for any battery found here. LCT has an OEM manufacture a battery for this gun and it's shown in the catalogue but it's not available in the US. So what do you do? You either run a battery box or re-wire the gun to the stock.
I opted to re-wire the gun. Re-wiring and routing the wires was easy however I will mention that the steel in the trunnion and stock hinge are heat treated. I burned up two TiN bits drilling a hole to route wires through and I was using cutting oil so they must be heat treating these parts at LCT. Wiring is routed down the left side of the gearbox and through the shelf where the back of the gearbox rests. There's just enough space there to route wiring without pinching.
With the battery in the stock you're not going to want to fold it unless you've made a generous hole and used heat shrink on the wires. Without heat shrink or an adequately sized hole you'll end up damaging the wiring by folding the stock. A G&G style "powered hinge" solution would be ideal and something LCT should consider incorporating on future replicas.
The stock is almost entirely hollow so you could run one of the old school brick batteries in there if you so chose.
With the battery compartment issue resolved we move on to the EBB bolt.
The EBB bolt is kept in position by a small square piece of plastic. The tapered edge faces the shooter when the block is inserted into the rear sight block. This part falls out when the bolt is removed and on my example doesn't do much to keep the bolt in it's correct position. I will likely have to 3d print a slightly thicker block or disable the EBB feature on my replica to resolve this as using the replica with a poorly fitting block or no block at all can damage the gearbox.
To make take down easier I epoxy the plates in place on my other LCT EBBs. Once epoxied you can take the bolt in and out as much as you want to show off the fake piston without worrying about losing the plate.
This replica unlike the other LCT rifles I've bought did not come with the correct flash hider in the box. You have to order it separate. Mildly irritating.
One last irritating thing to note. The cleaning rod is too short for the replica and sits too far back. To rectify this I had to install a RS Saiga 20" sporter cleaning rod I had in my parts bin. Further, the LCT cleaning rod is of two piece construction and came apart under EBB recoil. LCT needs to re-design this part if they're going to faithfully replicate an RPK.
On to actually shooting the replica.
I had to replace the spring on mine as the gun came to me with the piston locked back out of the box. The spring inside the gearbox was significantly shorter than a new spring and produced 155-160 FPS with .2s so it was replaced with an M100.
With the new M100 spring and .25s the rifle will fling bbs out to 150 feet without issue. it's an accurate replica and a joy to shoot as long as you can live with it's little gremlins. At approx. 150 feet I was able to keep all of my bbs inside of a B5 style target. (Torso). It will serve it's purpose as a collector's piece and an at home shooter but it will never be skirmishable in it's current state.
Despite all the problems I am happy with my purchase though given the fact that out of the last 5 LCT replicas I've purchased only two have been good to go out of the box I won't be purchasing any further LCT replicas sight unseen. I will pay the rental fee at an outpost or EVIKE main store to function test before I buy.
Would I still recommend this gun? If either you can test fire before you buy or you're mechanically inclined up for a challenge and not easily frustrated then absolutely.. Remember, it's the journey not the destination and anything worth doing is going to take time and effort. :)
by kyle h. on 04/29/2018
"Good external build parts. FPS is consistent but hot at 380 with .25. Biggest downside is the stock barrel does not like to play with other buckings and nubs. stock it pushes about 225 and will lift up to .32. If you want any heavier you will need to buy an r hop barrel.
by Dale K. on 04/01/2022
"I expected better
I've only used it a couple times and on its second use the gears stripped. Installed some shs gears to replace it then motor blew. I can tell that this thing is going to give me a lot of hassle so unless you're planning on just HPA tapping this thing right off the bat I'd say pass it up. It's performance when it was working was decent but I've seen guns for far less that will outrange it and shoot more accurately (I used .30's in it). Also the polymer on this gun does not feel very good, as compared to my LCT ak15 that thing feels like a rock compared to this
I've only used it a couple times and on its second use the gears stripped. Installed some shs gears to replace it then motor blew. I can tell that this thing is going to give me a lot of hassle so unless you're planning on just HPA tapping this thing right off the bat I'd say pass it up. It's performance when it was working was decent but I've seen guns for far less that will outrange it and shoot more accurately (I used .30's in it). Also the polymer on this gun does not feel very good, as compared to my LCT ak15 that thing feels like a rock compared to this
by Dale K. on 04/01/2022
"I expected better
I've only used it a couple times and on its second use the gears stripped. Installed some shs gears to replace it then motor blew. I can tell that this thing is going to give me a lot of hassle so unless you're planning on just HPA tapping this thing right off the bat I'd say pass it up. It's performance when it was working was decent but I've seen guns for far less that will outrange it and shoot more accurately (I used .30's in it). Also the polymer on this gun does not feel very good, as compared to my LCT ak15 that thing feels like a rock compared to this
I've only used it a couple times and on its second use the gears stripped. Installed some shs gears to replace it then motor blew. I can tell that this thing is going to give me a lot of hassle so unless you're planning on just HPA tapping this thing right off the bat I'd say pass it up. It's performance when it was working was decent but I've seen guns for far less that will outrange it and shoot more accurately (I used .30's in it). Also the polymer on this gun does not feel very good, as compared to my LCT ak15 that thing feels like a rock compared to this
by Allison P. on 12/19/2018
"The externals on this gun are absolutely phenominal. There is no wobble, and the plastic has no give. But the third time I used this gun in a game the pinion gear stripped and now I have a good looking paper weight.