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By Koko
Published: January 19, 2008
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So I will be doing a review on the Marzuen Type 96.
Before Purchase:
I was looking around for a bolt action rifle for long ranges (or at least longer than a AEG) and I had my eye on the VSR-10 and the Type 96. I choice the Type 96 because I felt that the VSR is not realistic in the wieght and I want to have a rifle that is very realistic. Also the Type 96 has a whole range of upgrades. And last... it just looks cool
" alt="biggrin.gif" border="0" />. So I was originally going to buy from Evikes.com but I decided to go with Redwolf because they were $70 cheaper and I could get a spring upgrade with it. I bought my scope and bipod from evikes.com. FYI... If you need something fast... don't go to evikes. I don't know... I have mixed reviews on them now. First they deliver my CA M15A4 the next day, now they didnt even ship my scope or bipod (still havent gotten it) and I had to go pick up my scope from their store (lucky I live near them but its still pretty far.) but they never said their bipod was out of stock till I called and asked where my stuff is. Also, their customer service had was really weird, I called Wednday they say its shipped... I called Friday they say their out of stock and they didnt ship it... So yea... Im done venting my anger.Cost: Marzuen Type 96 - $310
Spring Upgrade- $70
TM .25 BBs- $8
Shipping- $60
Total- $448
Shipper- Redwolfairsoft.com - Great customer service! Sent them an email, I recived one the next day! Friendly people and they did a great job at upgrades on my gun at least I didnt see anything wrong with it yet.
Evikes.com-
NCStar 2.5-10x40mm Illminated Scope - $99.00
Speedloader- $5
Bipod- $30
Total- $135 w/o tax
don't order from them if you need something fast. I had one great experience with them and now this. I havent had worse customer service in my life. I think most people tend to remember the bad things. O yea and it took them 40 minutes for them to acutally GIVE me the scope when I went in to get it when they said just to come pick it up. I had my comfirmation number and everything but I had to argue with them for 40mins. Whatever, the guy was friendly, just not helpful.
UPDATE (9/6/07): Still have not recieved what I ordered. They told me they would ship on the 4th but still no shipping order comfirmation. I am losing patients with them.
First Impresstion:
So I recieved this rifle in the last week of Auguest of 07, and I was impressed by a huge box at my front door. It was 5ft long! I was overjoyed by seeing this huge box and I grabed it and ran upstairs to open it. After cutting open the tape, I was greeted by a sea of white foam. I had to dig underneath the white stuff to get the box. Now the Marzuen box was like 3ft long. Kind odd but at least there was no damage to the box. The box is pretty plain and very colorful... but who cares! Now onto what was inside the box. Now I could tell customs went through it because bags were opened and a few manuels were just kinda under the gun's foam custion. Never the less the gun was undamaged. The gun is broken into two pieces: the stock and the barrel. I attach them together (they provided the allen wrenches to screw the gun together) and the gun's length is about 4ft give or take. The gun is mostly a strudy plastic but the whole barrel assembly is metal. After picking it up its pretty heavy but managable to hold standing up. The magazine that is included is basically all metal execpt for a lever that I don't really know what its for expect I guess pushing the magazine out when you release your magzine. The magazine also has a uquie BB opening which convenstional BB Speedloaders will not work. Ill talk more about it in the Firing Section of this review.
Shipping Box
Marzuen Box
Inside the box w/ two pieces of the gun
Details:
Now the gun has a unquie design for a bolt action rifle. That is the pistol grip. Most bolt actions like the M24 have a bend in the stock and then the butt plate. The Type 96 has a very comfertable grip when shooting in prone and when standing. The Type 96 comes with a very niffty feature that tells you your out out of BBs. Its on the left side of the gun and it pops up of the stock when your out of BBs and is down when you have BBs (see picture to see what I am talking about) The trigger also has a unquie design too. The trigger has a double trigger, but the top trigger is the safety. Speaking about the saftey, the safety is located just above the trigger and next to the bolt. The saftely only works when you have cocked the bolt and have the gun ready to fire. Onto the bolt, the bolt is metal and it is very smooth in pulling back. However, with at 300% spring (500FPS with .2) its quite hard to pull back without bracing the gun on your body. If you have a weak upper body strength I do not recommond upgrading to over 500FPS. Moving on down to the magazine fits very snuggly inside the well and doesnt move around. Thats great cause it reduces the noise produced by the gun when moving. The magazine pops out very easily when you press on a magazine release lever infront of the magazine. Next to the lever is the hop up. The hop is kinda hard to get to due to its in a small dark hole infront of the magazine release lever. You have to use a small allen wrench to turn the hop up. Turn clockwise to turn on hop up and turn couter clock wise to turn off. The mounting area for scopes is all metal and is feels very durable.
Safety
The Double Trigger
The Bullet Counter
Firing:
Ok now to the fun part. I chronoed my gun with .2s and .25s. With the can test I only did .25s. With the gun test I got around 460-480 FPS. With a real chrono (I did this yesterday) with .2 I got very different FPS range. First shot was 490, second was 460, third was 480, foruth was 470, fifth was 490. With the .25 it seemed more consistant, the first was 430, second 425, third was 440, fourth was 435, fifth was 440. So the Can test was off by 30FPS but I don't really mind, I just want to see groupings and accuracy.
Now before I began shooting targets, I had to zero my scope and adjust the hop up to a good area. Loading the magazine is sort of difficult if you don't have a bottle of BBs with the nozzle on top. Marzuen gives you a BB loader so having a bottle of BB's is pretty usefull when your loading the magazines. Long story short, fill the BB loader that Marzuen gives you to the top, use the stick they give you to push the BB's into the magazine and your ready to fire. Place the magazine in with the BB opening towards the front of the gun and push in until you hear a affirmative click. Now I did 3 test trials, one in prone, one crouching, and one standing. All test were conducted at 65ft, and I took 5 shots each trial.
First Trial:
Second Trial
Third Trial:
Final Thoughts:
I feel like I made the right choice in choicing my new primary weapong of choice. Its really accurate at 65ft, (which probably most of my shooting will be at) and I cant wait till I get a tightbore and all the goodies for my Type 96!
Conclution:
Design/Ergonamics - 9/10
Operation - 9/10
Accuracy - 10/10
Cosmetics - 10/10
Hop Up- 8/10 - Hard to change in low light and its hard to know if your in the hole when turn on hop up.
Final- 10/10
Highly Recommonded!! I love it and it looks really good.
Scope and Gun Close Up
This is why you always wear face protection, this came back at me when I was 65ft away.
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