Both Elephant L96

[-=Hollywood=-]

Over all, pleased. Headshots from 150 or so. Through the wind. with .25's.

It's plastic, but it held out. Even through my mad romps through the forest, catching it on everything. The hop-up worked well. The cocking mechanism worked well.

Over-all, It is WELL worth the $150 investment.

I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone though, as I want to be the only cool person with one. (Other then Livonia, but his is god-like).

People said it looked nice, and those I let shoot it were surprised. It's accurate enough out to 180 or so (Center-mass). It cocks easily once on the shoulder, and it weighs in at around 9 lbs.

Only complaint is the cheap-ass bipod mount. It's time to hit the machine shop and fabricate something better.

[BoredKender]

most of that 9lbs is from chunks of cement they put in there to off-set the lack of metal parts (including the bipod mount) found in the maruzen version

just an FYI

[Crazyman™]

I was one of the guys that shot it. It was nice for a Chinese version.
His velocity statements are accurate, too. I was chronoing with him and saw the results. They were way higher than I'd expected.

[Maddok]

Wasnt there a problem with a sear box being plastic or something when it was supposed to be metal? I heard that the V1.s had this and it made them very unreliable, but I think they fixed this in the V.2, is this true?

[-=Hollywood=-]

My sear pin is metal, along with the rest of the internals on my trigger housing. I am not sure what version I have however.

I've taken my BE apart, I know there's blocks of metal inside to weigh it down. It still makes for a nice rifle.

[Maddok]

Ok, because people on a few other forums were warning me about that pin breaking, and thats what was holding me back from buying it.

Would you say its accuracy is on par with the utg m324? because if so that almost makes my descision final.

[-=Hollywood=-]

I haven't shot a 324, you'll have to ask someone who has (Jumprefusal?).