• Weight: 2.70 kg
  
  
• Inner barrel length: 495mm
  
  
• Barrel caliber: 6.08
  
  
• High Cap magazine capacity: 470
  
  
• Initial speed: 300-320 fps
  
  
• Battery type: Mini

The Story:






I had bought the CA36 for one main reason: I LOVE THE G36!!! I was sitting at my computer one day, FAMAS in hand because I felt cool like that, I was going to our beloved ASC website and then I saw it. It was there, on the front page, I saw my airsoft future. Classic Army was making my dream gun. I dropped my FA-MAS in total awe of this gun. I said to myself right then and there that I must have that gun.

After four months of saving I finally had enough money. I called AEX’s store to see if they had it in stock, they didn’t. My father and I went to reserve on just in case. About two weeks after I decided to call them just to check, and luck my they did! But unlucky me had decided to call at 7:30pm. It was a 1-hour drive down to their Torrance store, and the next day we had to go somewhere so I had to wait till Friday, the 16 of September, yesterday. After getting home…well this actually belongs in the next section so scroll down.

The Gun





Gun in box


After getting home I opened the slightly roughed up box and found, not a gun, but a beast. This thing is huge compared to my FA-MAS! Numbers don’t really mean much until you hold the gun in your hands. When a battery is inserted the gun is front heavy. It is extremely light compared to the size of the gun. Though light it feels very solid, it felt like holding a brick, except without the weight of one. This may be due to the fiberglass body. There is absolutely no body flex whatsoever. I’m confident that this gun could survive a drop from the top of my house but I didn’t pay $360 to have my gun dropped from a roof.

Sights


The sights are also something to be mentioned. The export sight is only 1.5 magnifications but it’s a lot better than regular G36c sights. There is also a set of iron-sights on the top of the carry handle. The integrated scope can be zeroed in by allen screws on the top and right side of it. Surprisingly Classic Army didn’t include an allen key to do this. Luckily one of the paintball allen keys that come with my marker fit perfectly.

Stock





Left side folded





Right side folded


The stock, like on all G36’s, is folding. When standing up straight it stand at roughly 39 inches, with stock folded, about 29 ½. It locks into the folded position quit nicely and when folded stay secure. The piece that locks it into place is metal so I doubt it will ever break on you .It has some ugly mold seams down the middle of it but with a small file this can be fixed. At the very back of the stock where it is to make contact with the shoulder it is not fiberglass. At first inspection it seems like a piece of dense rubber, but in closer inspections reveal it’s like a plastic rubber polymer.

Front assembly of CA36


The fore grip on the CA36 is nice and looks to be fiberglass as well. The only problems I have with it is trying to get in on and off and fitting a battery in it. Though learning to take the fore grip take practice as all guns, this one take extensive practice. And fitting a battery in that isn’t a walk in the park. The fore grip is a lot smaller than I thought it would be, and because of this it will only take a mini-type battery, but I’ll talk about this later.

This is about the little things on the gun that don’t deserve their own paragraph like the mag well and selector switch. The selector switch could be better but that is a thing of preference. The “click” is there but it’s not as definite as the one on a FAMAS or M4 but this problem is insignificant. The way the mag goes in is a bit odd to me but may not be to you. You first put the top half of the mag in, you line it up, and then just push. I’ve become comfortable with the magazine changing of a FAMAS, but I’m sure I’ll learn. The charging handle can be better also. The ambidextrous charging handle can be moved back to open the ejection port cover and expose the hop-up. It seems to be made of some cheap plastic and is very loose in its slide, and moves freely. Because it is directly mounted to the ejection port cover this means it moves as the charging handle does, forward and backward, side to side, but this is such a small problem it really isn’t worth mentioning. I’m just really bored.

The Performance:




Test were conducted under these conditions:

• Wind: calm
  
  
• Temp: 82* F
  
  
• Gun: CA36
  
  
• Upgrades: stock
  
  
• Shooting position: prone w/rifle rest

target




Talk about a good marksman platform. It can hit a target the size of a CD at 40 ft. It can hit a man sized target repetitively at 80 ft. Drop in a tight bore and 400fps with a bit of custom work and boom you’ve got your self a marksman rifle, in fact that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve already got the upgrades.

Charging handle relaxed

charging handle pulled back exposing hop-up dial

The hop-up is very good as well. It been said that Classic Army hop-up isn’t too good. I wouldn’t really know. But if it is true the CA36 is the exception. It is very responsive and doesn’t adjust itself while shooting like I’ve heard other guns do.

The G36 is very quiet, a nice thing to have if you doing recon. The sound that comes out of the barrel is kind of like a high-pitched “tick, tick” or like when you tap two metal pens together except higher pitched and a little louder.

The Accessories:




The human mind, simply put, gets bored. We get bored with games, we get bored with music and we get bored with our guns. Fortunately the wonders of accessories come to the rescue. I’ll split this up for you convenience

The Battery:


I had no idea what it was like to have a gun that takes a mini battery. It hard to find a battery that fit correctly in my gun. Right know I have a nun-chuck battery and two small 600Mah batteries. One of those small batteries can’t even get though a whole hi-cap with out dieing. I now know why most ppl opt for guns with full stocks.

Gap to allow wires to lead to battery compartment

But Classic Army has solved this problem; maybe it was a fluke, maybe that’s just how the gun was designed. When I slid the fore grip all the way on and inserted the pin I noticed that there was a gap under the gun between the end of the fore grip and the rest of the body. At first I though nothing of it thinking it was an error made by the manufacturer but after a while I relived it so wires can run from out side the gun to the inside and still look neat. I can take that nun-chuck battery and have half of it inside and half hanging (or taped to the gun) outside. I plan on either getting a battery bag and put it in the front or rewire the gun and place it in the stock.

The Internal Upgrades:


Well there’s not much to say here except there are upgrades that will go into the G36.
To help out in upgrading your G36 I’ve gathered some info:

• It uses a short type motor
  
  
• It has a 495mm inner barrel. A M16/AUG barrel will fit.
  
  
• Version III gearbox
  
  
• 7mm bushings
  
  
• Classic Army reinforced gears and internals

The Outer Upgrades:


If I tried to list the external up grades you could do or the conversions you can do to the G36 I’d wear the letters off of my keyboard. With a g36 or one of its variations the only limitation you have is how deep your wallet goes. There are conversion kits to turn it into a sniper rifle to a whole different gun.
Here are some I feel are use full, or really cool to have:

• G&P long for grip w/built in bipod
  
  
• STAR SL-9 conversion kit
  
  
• G&P 4.5x magnification carry handle.
  
  
• STAR G36C top rail
  
  
• GWS XM8 kit

Well that’s my review of the Classic Army G36. Over all I highly recommend this gun to anyone, grunts or veterans.

The pictures I added just because:


When buying a gun you sometimes can’t get to a store to hold the gun and inspect it for your self. Because of this you have to look at picture and try your best to judge it from that, so I added these to help with that. I also just like taking picture of my gun .

CA36 in case

CA36 on rifle rest

Gun is case again

Well that’s my review of the Classic Army G36. Over all I highly recommend this gun to anyone, grunts or veterans.

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