I managed to get the rifle out yesterday, and the only upgrade I had in it was the 2.8J spring, but.. This gun is going to have to sit on the backburner for a while with me.
I hadn't realized it, but the field I play on is a lot of fast paced action, small to medium sized maps, occasionally a large map. But I've gotten so used to the 1" bolt pull on the Striker, making super fast follow-up shots, so much so that I can't commit fully to the Tac41. With that being said, Mancraft has
already stated in a comment that they're working on an SDiK kit for it, so the day that becomes available, you best believe I'll be one of the first to order it.
With all that said and done, mine does need some work. To no fault of their own, mine became a lemon due to some.. unforeseen circumstances. The orange tip fiasco that shredded my bucking, replaced the bucking, barrel is most likely warped, and the fact that one of the sling points gave out 3 times (not sure if it's a flaw with the
sling point or the rifle's sling mount), but when the rifle was slung with the barrel facing down and the sling point gave out, the barrel hit the ground from about 2 feet up. From then on, I noticed the shots were more or less straight, but they were.. angled, from left to right. The scope didn't hit the ground, it was just the barrel that hit the dirt at an angle, and I managed to catch the rifle before it completely fell over. It's not some cheapo airsoft scope that got knocked out of alignment, this is a real steel
legit Vortex scope.
In other news, I'd also bought the Stalker variable weight piston for the Tac41, but.. there's basically no documentation on how to assemble it. Just a handful of weights, a spring guide, a ton of o-rings, a piston head, an airbreak, and two rings - one of which being a guide ring, and the other being the sear ring. Which ring is which? Where does each go? Nobody knows. I looked up a video of someone else using it and
copied their assembly, and had
zero air seal and a drop from 2.7J with the stock piston to a 2.3J with the Stalker piston, only to be
told in the facebook group by Stalker that it's wrong.
I want to like this rifle. I really do. But for my playstyle of fast-paced, quick follow up shots, it's just not in the cards for me at the moment. If I could have it my way, I'd definitely get a shorter barrel and basically replicate my AS01 setup - Get a 330mm outer barrel and a ~417mm inner barrel, throw on my "mock" suppressor, get the SDiK for it, and voila - another faithful scout sniper setup.