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The Cyma CM.023 MP5 airsoft gun is a great beginner package that includes everything you'd need for backyard shooting. And, in fact, it is a great stepping stone if you ever going to upgrade to a high-end airsoft gun down the road, especially if it is going to be another MP5. For $20 to $30, how can you go wrong?
As you can see from this list, it includes everything you need to get started playing and more. Because of all these accessories being included for the price, when you upgrade your gun to a better MP5, you can actually save money in the long run.
For example, let's go through some Amazon prices (not including shipping/tax) for these re-usable parts: 1) low-cap magazine $4.66; 2) high-cap magazine $11.14; 3) speed loader $0.99; 4) sling $5.65; 5) MP5 rail $9.11. Just these parts add up to $31.55 and that's not including shipping (many of these items are not eligible for Prime and Super Saver).
The gun is model after the Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun. In fact, the sellers of this gun claim that it is a exact Tokyo Marui replica. But I seriously doubt that it is a true replica, because after taking it apart, I found that it is practically not upgradeable. (See "Is the Cyma CM.023 a True Tokyo Marui Replica?" thread.) On the other hand, Tokyo Marui airsoft guns has plenty of upgrade parts. Perhaps, this Cyma CM023 gun is just a Tokyo Marui replica on the outside.
The gun has a fire mode selector with three settings: 1) safe; 2) semi-auto; 3) and full auto. Semi-auto is quite sufficient, because the trigger is light enough to shoot out the entire 30 round magazine in a few seconds.
In fact, shooting with this airsoft gun in the back yard is a lot of fun. It's in fact more fun than the Daisy air rifle that shoots metal BB's, because the CM023 is semi-automatic and full-automatic, without having to manually pump like the Daisy air rifle.
The entire gun is made out of plastic, except for a few sling mount parts. That means if you want a realistic heavy metal airsoft gun, then this one is not it. But its plastic assembly means it is extremely light, yet it feels quite sturdy.
Because it's so light, even my toddlers can hold the gun up. This gun is perfect if you want to train your kids gun safety and teach them the basics of shooting.
The shoulder stock is well made and is quite sturdy for plastic. It has four positions to adjust to a length that suits your body or the close quarter environment.
It seems that you can easily carve into the plastic shoulder stock rails to customize its length for yourself.
The Cyma CM.023 includes two magazines. One is a realistic low-cap magazine that holds 30 rounds. The other is a high-cap magazine that holds a lot more BB's. The low-cap magazine works really well out of the box. There is no wobble in the magazine well. And it feeds the gun without any problems.
The high-cap magazine on the other hand is finicky and unusable out of the box, until you figured out the trick. It is loose in the well and moves up and down. The trick is to slam it in there and get it to seat well. After you do it once or twice, it'll work just fine. (See "The Finicky Cyma CM023 Hi-Cap Magazine" thread.)
The high-cap magazine has fake 9mm bullets to look like real MP5 dual magazine. You slide the fake bullets out to load BB's. Once BB's are loaded, you'd wind the winding wheel to feed the BB's. Whenever your gun stop shooting BB's, you wind the magazine again.
The included silencer is a fake one. But it sure looks great on the gun. In fact, it looks better than many MP5 airsoft on the market. It's one of the enticing reasons I bought this gun.
To install the silencer, you'd unscrew the existing orange muzzle tip. Then screw the silencer onto the plastic screw. Just don't let little kids play with the silencer when it's mounted on the gun. The extra long length provide great leverage for little kids to break the muzzle tip off.
After my toddlers broke off the tip, I wished the screw is actually on the silencer side. That way I could extract the broken screw and get a new silencer for the gun. But with the current design and no replacement parts, the tip is going to remain broken (meaning no silencer).
The red dot sight is just a toy and is unusable. It's lenses are made out of plastic and very blurry to see through. Once the red dot is turned on, the reflection create so much glare you can't see through it at all. This is really disappointing. Had Cyma included a fully working $10 sight, this package would be unbelievable in price.
The red dot scope does not have adjustment for elevation and windage. If it did, it would be useless anyway, because you can't really practically see through it.
The on/off knob is on the top of the scope. You can unscrew the knob to get to the two AG10 button cell batteries inside the scope (see photo below). The best thing you can do with this scope is to pull the batteries out to use in something else.
There is one other use for this red dot scope. If you are making a movie and need a mock gun, this scope actually looks kind of cool on the rail.
The package comes with a small battery and charger. The gun, battery, and charger all use a special proprietary connector that I never seen in the airsoft and R/C world. The battery is also much smaller than the standard R/C and the small airsoft batteries.
The battery is 7.2v and only 350 mAh. The charger is a 200 mA power supply. So by basic math, the charger should be able to charge the battery in 2 hours. Yet, the manual claims that you should charge it for 7 to 8 hours. I'm no electrical engineer and don't know the real math behind it. But it just seems perculiar to me that it would take so long to charge such a small battery.
The package provides a two point sling. The adjustment bracket is made out of plastic. But, surprisingly, the snap-on hooks are made out of metal. It's not a bungee, just a plain basic black sling. You can user it as an one-point sling by connecting both ends to the same point on the gun.
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