SOCOM Gear R700 Sniper Rifle Airsoft Gun

[TheFatGoose]

I have been practicing to perform a sniper role for months now with my friends rifle, and now its time for me to get my own. I found this http://www.airsoftgi.com/product_info.p ... ts_id=5735
and wondered if it would be a less expensive alternative to the CA m24 im think about buying. If its a hunk o s@#t, tell me now before i buy it, break it and then go buy a M24 after wasting a few hundred dollars.

[Jester316]

Any bolt action rifle you buy will require a decent amount of upgrades to perform to your expectations.

I have $300+ dollars into my bolt action rifle, and I'm still going on the upgrades. That bolt action you linked is not an M24 replica, it's a replica of the Remington 700. However, the internals are all VSR-10. If you can find it in stock, http://www.airsoftgi.com/product_info.p ... ts_id=4360 that's what I use and is a very good base rifle. Minimum upgrades would be a new tight bore barrel 6.02 or less preferred. And a new hop up bucking, I recommend the Firefly soft if shooting 500 and below, Firefly hard for 500+ fps.

[Nocte]

I'd say that the chances are better that it's a hunk of shit.

[SilentStalker]

If you are thinking of one model and settle for a different since it will "save you money" you will truely never be happy. Save the extra cash and get the gun you want. And then dump the money you need to to make it shoot the way you want it to. If you settle you will end up woning both. May not be a bad thing but if you can only afford one get the one you want.
Happy hunting

[AirsoftAmmoSupply]

SOCOM R700 = JG Bar 10

[KA-BAR]

yea, the socoms are hotness, a lil better then the tsd in my opinion.

its stable enuff for you to build on.

if i was building another cheap-O tack driver this would be one of the platforms on the block.

[Beran]

except that it doesn't come with mount points for optics.

[Mono]

Optics sure do look cool and all... but seriously, at the ranges airsofters engage at they're a hindrance. You're better off sticking to iron sights so you don't get tunnel vision. Bring binoculars, they're easier on the eyes. As a sniper you won't be engaging a lot of targets, anyway. You'll mostly be hiding in the bush, looking through those binoculars and calling in troop movement on your radio.

In fact... if I ever play a sniper role again, I'm going to spend 200 hours slaving away over my ghillie suits (one for each field, each season), I'll bring huge-ass binoculars with camo mesh lens caps and not bother dropping $800 or more on a sniper system.

I'll spend that $800 on the best damn radio/headset I can find and have a $10 suppressed springer pistol tucked in my belt for defense on ingress/egress. I'll spend the whole game supplying my CO with real-time intel from behind enemy lines, and sneak away at the end of the day without firing a single shot.

I'll go down in history as the best sniper in the entire airsoft world.

Think about that before you start dreaming about being a superleetsniperZOMG, please.

[KA-BAR]

i am going the new route.

semi auto platforms are the new standard, bolts have become a secondary, specialized tool. all army snipers are now trained on the M110 ( AR-10 or SR-25), so i will be heavily upgrading a platform to the maximum FPS limit ( 400) with a one piece metal hop up unit, and a high quality TB passed through a mock suppressor. top it off with a M3 and POOF. i am a dragon.

[Mono]

That's a much better idea than a bolt. Maybe 10 yards less effective range, but instant followup shots on targets of opportunity for when your roll switches to DM.

That SR-25 is one sexy beast, too. I approve of this!

[Raging Hormann]

I have had the chance to use SR-25's before, both the G&P SR25K (URX), as well as the G&G GR-25SD. Both are amazing replicas. For the Sniper/DM roll, definitely the SD version with the Inner Barrel through the suppressor. Extremely accurate weapon with the parts that were installed, I couldn't give you a list but that was due to the fact that it was not mine.

If you move for an optic, get it more for the fact that you will use it for monitoring and spotting, not so much aiming. I would personally use the optic on the lowest zoom setting when sighting targets.

[Merchant]

If your going to go the bolt rout, and your serious about sniping, the TM VSR's are regarded as the best model to build off of. I have owned two JG Bar-10's and a TSD L96 and can say I would trade all of them for the TM G-spec that I have now.

You can get a cheaper rifle and tune it to shoot like an upgraded TM, but the quality in build material will be lacking, and it will feel much more toy like.

As far as upgrades, I have heard an acount of someone shortstroking the piston, kept the stock spring guide and piston, poped in a slightly harder spring to get 400fps, sealed everything well and used sound dampening material to get it so quiet he said you can only hear the sear drop.
-my point is that you can tune your rifle very well for many situations, weather you use an upper end, or a lower end that is your choice, but in my personal experiance you ALWAYS get what you pay for in airsoft.

(also if you want info on guides to moding a VSR/BAR-10 I know a few web sites, send me a pm.)