Trigger Happy M240 Review - Updated Oct. 21th 2010

Postby Wyxz » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:52 pm

Maybe you could tell anything about hop-up chamber and ruber? Is it specialy made for TH or it can be replaced with other brands chamber and ruber?
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Postby Black Fox » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:26 am

Wxyz

The TH M240 uses the same Hop-Up bucking as everyone else.

If you look near the top of the review I wrote, I listed all the parts that I upgraded.
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Postby Snake_Eyes » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:03 pm

LiquidSnak wrote:All I have to say:

I envy the F**k out of you.

I feel the same way...
My sword runs at 450 FPS, try to out run that! 35+ Sword/Knife Kills and counting.
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Postby Black Fox » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:25 pm

LiquidSnak wrote:
All I have to say:

I envy the F**k out of you.

I feel the same way...



Thanks guys.

Save your money and check ebay. Once in a while I see one pop-up. The cheapest I saw was $900.
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Postby Matt » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:34 pm

I wasn't very impressed with the TH M240.

I've paid excess of $1000 for an LMG before, stripped all the internals, replaced them, and had to tinker with the damn thing after every game to get it to work again. IMO, after spending that much cash on an Airsoft gun, the damn thing should at least stay together. I can deal if the internals bust out after firing 90,000 rounds through it over the course of 3 games - that's fine, I can buy new pistons or gears. But when random shit just falls off the gun during normal use - I'm sorry but you are being bent over and Trigger Happy is having their way with you.

This sounds like a TOP M60 to me. Worthless out of the box. Sure if you buy it and replace all the parts it might be a good skirmish weapon, but then you always have other random things break.

This is a case of "we're the first to come out with it, so we can make it any price we want." I don't know about everybody else, but if I buy a fixer-upper I want it at a fixer-upper price.
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Postby Black Fox » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:10 pm

I've paid excess of $1000 for an LMG before, stripped all the internals, replaced them, and had to tinker with the damn thing after every game to get it to work again. IMO, after spending that much cash on an Airsoft gun, the damn thing should at least stay together.


I hear you Matt. I've been there too. I bought a TOP M249 years back. I had Airsoft Extreme upgrade it with a PGC gear box. It never really worked after that. I would send it back to get it fixed and it was good for 1,000 and break again. Other shops tried to fix it too but with the same results. It turned out to be the most expensive a biggest piece of crap airsoft gun I ever bought. I stayed away from SAWa & LMGs for a long time after that.

I've had my TH M240 for a year now. Other than the problems I had from the beginning, I have not had any problems since and the gun has been a solid performer. I've probably put about 20,000 rounds through it at this point.

This is a case of "we're the first to come out with it, so we can make it any price we want."


You'll get no argument from me on that one. But lets just say I didn't pay full price for mine. The main reason I got it though was because I needed a bigger gun to go on top of my HMMWV turret

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Postby Matt » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:22 pm

I don't fault you for being a pioneer. It's just too bad you had to replace nearly everything inside to make it worthwhile. Let's hope that more manufacturers jump on board so that these things become affordable, or at least so they have somebody to answer to for quality control.

Only 20,000 rounds in a year? Is that all? We'd rip through 20,000 rounds in a month with our M60s. I had to replace the piston every 40,000 rounds but it was worth it. :)
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Postby league 4 » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:55 pm

I liked my TOP M60E4 and TOP M249 w/ PGC gearbox... :(

They never broke for me, and I only use lipo batteries. The M60 saw about 20k rounds in a week, and the M249 about 30k rounds in a month or two. And Matt, I never had anything fall off of my G&P M249 Ranger (if that's the gun you're talking about) so it must have just been you. Nothing broke. I just had a really dumb box magazine that decided it didn't like to work.
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Postby Matt » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:40 pm

No I'm talking about the Trigger Happy M240, not your gun. I had a G&P M249 as well, the bi-pod broke and so did the outer barrel.
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Postby Black Fox » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:10 pm

I don't fault you for being a pioneer. It's just too bad you had to replace nearly everything inside to make it worthwhile.


Matt, I don't think you really need to change everything on the inside with the TH M240. All I really heard was that the BB grouping wasn't all that good. At minimum I would just replace the inner barrel and the hop-up bucking. But when I buy a new gun in general, I usually strip the internal and rebuild it anyway. To me, "stock" is a 5 letter word when it comes to airsoft.

:D

With the M240 though, I just decided to go balls out on the thing.
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Postby Black Fox » Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:46 am

This review has been updated.
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Postby Black Fox » Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:49 am

Only 20,000 rounds in a year? Is that all? We'd rip through 20,000 rounds in a month with our M60s. I had to replace the piston every 40,000 rounds but it was worth it. Smile


Initially I had some problems with the gun shooting too hot which eliminated it from a couple of games but that has been fixed.

Also, when you have a wife and kids it tends to limit your game time. So I don't get as much trigger time as I used to. :cry:
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Postby Black Fox » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:37 am

This review has been updated. Updates are in blue and green.
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Postby Black Fox » Thu May 27, 2010 1:03 pm

This review has been updated.
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Postby Solid » Thu May 27, 2010 2:21 pm

That things beautiful
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