Real Steel History - wikipedia.com
The Remington Model 700 or M700 series of firearms are bolt-action hunting rifles manufactured by Remington Arms since 1962. All are based on the same centerfire bolt action. They come with a 3, 4 or 5-round internal magazine depending on caliber, which sometimes includes a floor-plate for quick-unloading, and sometimes is "blind," meaning it has no floor-plate. The Model 700 is available in a great number of different stock, barrel and caliber configurations. It is a development of the Remington 721 and 722 series of rifles, which had been introduced in 1948. Due to their low cost and high reliability, the guns are popular among both civilians and law enforcement agencies.
Basic Information
The gun being reviewed here today is one of Airsoft GI's latest in house custom guns. At it's core it's a Socom Gear R700 that's been upgraded inside and out with Airsoft GI's upgrade parts. The gun is available from Airsoft GI here for the fantastic price of $259.99. With that low of a price, don't be surprised to find that it's frequently out of stock! The Socom Gear R700 is essentially another clone of the Tokyo Marui VSR-10 and is designed to compete with the popular JG BAR-10.
Product Description/First Impressions:
For owners of existing VSR/BAR-10's, this will all seem pretty familiar. The gun comes in a plain beige box with Socom Gear's sticker on the top with a brief feature run down. Inside, you will find the gun sitting in cut foam padding along with the camo netting, speed loader, tools, and bottle of BB's. The ASGI G700 varies a bit because of their custom scope rail which required them to remove the rear site which is included in a little baggie. Please note, the gun is NOT available in a GSpec configuration. I transplanted the internals into a GSpec based of my personal preference for the GSpec looks. The gun normally comes with standard VSR-10 style externals. Other than the rail, this looks like a stock Socom Gear R700.
Externals
Externally, the only difference between this gun and any other VSR-10 clone is ASGI's custom rail, so we will start there. The rail is CNC machined out of Hard Coat Anodized 6061-T6 Aluminum and looks absolutely fantastic. It's not just skin deep though, the rail is 100% sturdy and is plenty long to mount a variety of optics.
The stock, as with all VSR-10 clones, it's plastic and feels cheap. This is no different than the JG/Well clones so this is not a complaint specific to this gun but to the series in general. The stock bolt handled is textured heavily which I found makes the gun painful to use due to the stiff spring, so I swapped that for a JG bolt handle which has no texture on it. That said, I live in a desert, so if you are playing in locations where rain/snow is more common, the ASGI bolt handle would give you a lot more grip when wet. Alternatively you could wear gloves which would also resolve the issue.
Internals
The main difference between this gun and the base Socom Gear is that Airsoft GI has replaced the stock parts with their in house pre-upgraded parts. This consists of the sear set, piston, spring, spring guide, and 6.01mm inner barrel. I very slightly bored out the mock mock silencer on my GSpec to accommodate the longer barrel from the G700. In addition to improving the looks of the gun (in my opinion) this also had the added advantage of negating the need for barrel spacers. Since people expressed their concerns about the longevity of the parts, the below pictures were taken after roughly 1,000 rounds through the gun.
Given the fact you can't really tell anything about the barrel by pictures, I will not be including any pictures of the barrel. That said, the barrel has no noticeable flaws of any sort, has a reasonable weight to it, and provides solid performance. The cylinder head is the stock brass head, so there's not much to say about that.
The piston and piston head are part of Airsoft GI's in-house line of upgrade parts. Both pieces have an orange finish on them and seem to be pretty well made. They seemed to be a bit over lubed but other than that everything looked pretty good. I was however a bit concerned by the small metal shaving stuck to the lube on the piston. However, I could not determine for sure where the shavings are coming from nor did they appear to be effecting the guns performance. The lube itself did feel like it might have been a little lighter weight than needed but given the guns performance, it seems to be working perfectly well.
The spring guide was also upgraded and is of the bearing variety. The spring guide is solid and seats nicely into the piston. There's no signs of wear or stress on the spring guide which is really all the more you are looking for in the spring guide.
The spring was also upgraded to a stiffer model with a black finish to it. As with the spring guide, there's not much you can say about it other than there's no signs of wear or deformities. The spring produces consistent FPS results which indicates there's no flaws in the manufacturing of the spring.
The sear kit is probably the part the most people are concern about. After 1,000 rounds, the parts showed slight signs of wear which includes slight rounding of the corners. That said, the have worked 100% reliably to this date with no slam fires or failures to fire of any sort. The trigger sear shows little to know wear at all.
The spring guide stopper is the part that seems to show the most signs of wear out of any of the parts. I don't work on VSR's that often, so that stuck me as a little odd. I personally would have expected the other parts of the sear set to wear first.
Power/Magazines
The gun is a bolt action spring powered gun. The gun is cocked by lifting the bolt handle and pulling it back. However, due to the upgraded spring, be aware this gun has a VERY stiff bolt pull on it. It is highly likely most members of the younger crowd will be unable to use the gun. Magazine wise, the gun uses standard 25 round VSR-10 style magazines. I've put roughly a dozen magazines through the gun and have not had any issues with either the included mag or using my existing JG mags in the gun.
Performance Characteristics:
First off let me state that I will be subjecting this gun to several chrono test in the review as there are some concerns about the Madbull and Xcortech chrono's and reading high FPS guns such as this too low/inaccurately. For the first run, I put 20 rounds through my Xcortech chrono using .20g Airsoft Elite BB's with the hopup OFF and this is what I was greeted with.
That was the highest reading of the group, the lowest being 553.6fps. Even if the chrono's are not reading properly, they usually read LOW which means you should consider 550fps to be an absolute minimum. Second run was done using KSC .25g BB's on another Xcortech with the hopup off again. The gun was now reading 515-520fps which would seem to indicate the chrono is reading properly. The third run was with KSC .25g BB's on the Xcortech with the hopup adjusted to about 50%. The gun was now reading 530-550fps. For the forth run, I switched back to the AE .20's and left the hopup at 50%. The gun now registered 570-590fps.
Now for the accuracy. The nickle is for size comparison as these aren't my normal targets. The test was done using Madbull .40g BB's at 100' with nearly no wind. While not the best BB's out there, they are the best I have handy at the moment. However, that said, I do believe they may account for the two floaters on the left hand side as I could see their flight path curving. If you ignore those two as flukes, which is evidenced by the overall consistency of the rest of the shots, the gun is shooting sub 2" groupings at 100'. If you adjust for operator error, I would say the gun itself is capable of 1"-1.25" groupings at 100 feet. This gun is no joke, it's extremely consistent.
Range wise, I simply don't have a controlled environment where I can test ranges past 100ft and I consider in-game "estimates" to be unreliable at best. That said, my in-game estimate with the gun would be accurate out to 225-250 feet or so.
Accessories/Modifications
There's plenty of VSR-10 parts out there for you to look at, but really the only thing the gun needs is a scope and bipod. But if you are looking for more, any VSR-10 parts should work just fine with the gun. One thing I would mention is that the very stiff bolt pull combined with the "textured" bolt the gun has results in a sore or even bleeding palm after repeated usage. I would highly recommend replacing it with a smooth handle. When I transplanted my G700 into my GSpec body, I used the GSpec's handle which resolved the issue.
Upgrades:
As this is a VSR-10 clone, there are mountains of upgrade parts available both internally and externally. However, the whole point of this package is the fact that it's preupgraded, so you really shouldn't need much of anything. All I did was add a scope/bipod and declared it done.
Skirmish Results
The gun was transplanted into the GSpec externals prior to it's first skirmish, so take that into consideration. The gun performed perfectly at it's first skirmish with no failures or misfeeds of any sort. However I could not seem to get the hopup to adequately lift the Madbull .40g BB's I was using. Admittedly those are about the heaviest BB's you can find, but it was a bit unfortunate as I had no other suitable BB's with me. Beyond that though the rifle performed admirably.
Conclusion:
There's a few small things I would change on the gun if it were up to me, but it's very hard to fault a gun in this price bracket that's completely upgraded internally. The only think I would say is on the verge of needing to be changed is the bolt handle. It's simply painful (literally) to use. I would also like to see a GSpec version offered, but that's simply my opinion. Really though, this gun is fantastic for both people getting their first airsoft sniper rifle or people simply wanting to avoid the hassle of upgrading it themselves.
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