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Originally Posted by CuppoJava
okay...upon reading more into it.
It seems the bent barrel in the KJW is by design.
I'm not sure what purpose it serves but it is intentional...
Perhaps CDN_Stalker can share his wisdom on this gun.
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Dragged back in again, eh?
Ok, here's a nutshell of the gun, clarifying some stuff mainly.
* Bent inner barrel: This isn't in every single gun, it's in about 2/3 of them I guess. What is going on is that the front barrel mount (attaches the outer barrel to the stock and holds it straight), if the base of the outer barrel where it attaches to the receiver is slightly canted from manufacture, then the mount holds the outer barrel so it sits perfectly in the stock, the inner barrel will gain a very slight bend. Remove the barrel mount, move the rear sling stud and nut forward (if you feel like it) and you've just relieved the barrel to sit as it wants to. I ordered 3 M700 (I was going for one, two teammates wanted as well, so I bought them) and out of the three, 2 of them had the barrel lean a bit to the left compared to the stock. One stayed straight.
* Flow restrictor: Only comes in the M700 Take-Down model.
* Gas use vs. temp: I strongly recommend duster in this gun if the temp is over 20C, but propane is fine under it. I let a bud use mine one game day, it was a high of +10C, I told him to keep the mags in an inside pocket unless he was going to take a shot, he had good power and accuracy all day.
* Mag feeding issue: Not a feeding issue, it's that the inner feed lips are a bit sharp, and when you push the bolt forward to strip a BB off the mag, it hangs up a bit, you press harder and a BBs pops out and gets loaded. Problem is, you just put a small cut on the BB surface, which will cause your BB to hook. Use a Dremel or diamond needle file to round the sharp edge where teh inner feed lips contact the BBs.
* Adjustable power: Yes, but not field friendly. Remove bolt, remove the two slotted screws from the bottom side, remove the set screw at the back of the striker (the part on the end that gets held back and releases to strike the mag gas release valve). From there the two halves will separate, you will see the striker spring. On the end of the rod there is a slotted screw head, you adjust it one way to give more tension (releases more gas) or the other for less. Then reinstall the set screw (it holds the rod), then both halves, put back in gun and try out.
Finally, this gun can be a sweetheart if yo utreat it right. Every 20 shots dry swab the inner barrel, it get really inaccurate after about 20 shots. And fill the mag first with gas (no BBs), and dry fire 4 times. Then load BBs, and go play.
Doing all this above, my groups went from CD sized at 30ft (basement) when I first got it, to this after about 500 settle in shots:
BTW, washed just means I got all the excess graphite off the BBs.
And case in point to the gun being that accurate and not me, my 11 year old daughter can nail (sitting and using bipod) 8-9 out of 10 bottle caps set up at 30ft!