A couple weeks ago I was looking around for a new purchase. I wanted something unique, something that I don't see 30 of at an airsoft event. After a lot of searching, I stumbled upon the KA FAL. I purchased this from Evike 10 days ago. I'm not an Evike fan for the fact that they are slow, and rather unreliable in my experiences. Along with this rifle I also purchased a bipod, which upon inspection did not appear to be included with my gun upon delivery. Just before I threw the rifle's box out, I noticed the bipod was taped inside the back of the box. Wow, way to fail Evike...way to fail.

So lets start with the box. Cheapest box I've seen outside of mpegs. The box is simply composed of styrofoam molded to the gun. Cheap. I know the box is just that, a box, but it is the first impression. I must say that I was already dissapointed.

The contents of the box were few; Rifle, sight adjustment tool, and magazine. Nothing else.

So lets have some pics!

This is a very long rifle, as is evident from the pictures.


Here's a side by side with my M14 for comparison


The gun weighs roughly 10 pounds, though it doesn't feel too bad. The length, however, can be very cumbersome and make it difficult to handle.

Even the flash hider is insanely long


Some closeups






Hopup adjustment



Motor plate cover


It's not just the gun itself thats huge




Pros:
-Aluminum and steel parts feel/ look nice
-Holds large type 8.4v


Cons:

Where to begin?

Lets start with the terrible cheap plastic front fore grip. The rest of the body is composed of nice fiberglass, but the fore grip is cheap abs plastic....why?? Then we have these god aweful seams


Then we have the rear sight, that kind of bugs me...

While the rear sight slides forward and backward, theres no point to this as you cannot change the sight elevation.

More seams...

...in addition to the seams we have a stock that wiggles at the tangs. That doesn't help to reassure me of its strength.

In a previous pic I showed the hopup unit and how you expose it. What I didn't show yet was this...

...the gap in the front appears when you release the bolt and allow the hopup cover to slide forward. It does not completely cover the gap unless you manually push it forward with your hands. I've already lubed it several times, and it still continues.


This is what appears when you pull off the butt plate

I spent quite some time trying to figure out how to get this inner plate off. Consulting the manual revealed nothing, as it didn't even SHOW this piece in the book. As it turns out you have to very forcefully push the inner plate downward and then pull it out.

I took this to an indoor pistol range last night. I fired the rifle from a sitting position, with the barrel rested on a sandbag. The distance was 50 feet. I fired a total of 10 rounds. They're difficult to see, but they center roughly 1 inch inside and outside the black on the 3 and 6pm position.


While at the range I stumbled into a problem I'd experienced before. The mag quit feeding, and then began to feed VERY sporadically. I own a set of 10 KA mags for my M14 and had experienced this problem with those as well. I've never owned mags that worked so poorly in all my experience.

Impressions so far?
-At the moment I feel a little cheated, considering I paid $410 for this gun. I'm looking around to see if anybody else owns one and has opened it up before I decide to do so on my own.