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DOUBLE EAGLE M904A FCS
DE FIRE
In Collaboration with
CONTROL SYSTEM
WHEN BUYING AN AEG, PLAYERS CAN EXPECT A LOT FOR THEIR MONEY WHEN IT COMES TO THE TECHNICALITY AND
FUNCTION OF INTERNAL COMPONENTS AND OPERATING SYSTEMS, WITH ETUS, MOSFETS, AND FCUS NOW THE NORM
FOR MANY MANUFACTURERS. BILL HAS FOUND A LITTLE GEM FROM UNEXPECTED QUARTERS THAT OFFERS COOL
PERFORMANCE AT A COOL PRICE!
If you’d said to me that I’d be looking at a neat little
AR AEG with a host of up-to-the-minute features from
Chinese manufacturer Double Eagle, even a couple of
years back, I’d have probably nodded sagely and said “Oh
yes, I’m sure it will be fine” as, let’s face it, Double Eagle (or
DE Airsoft these days) have been pretty much known for
their well-priced spring models and, apart from a delve into
the AEG market with their M89A “UMP” (which is fairness
was cheap as chips!), it’s not a brand I would associate with
complex electric models.
I have owned a number of Double Eagle shotguns, both
regular springers and shell-fed tri-shot beasties, over the
years and I have to say that when it comes to “gas and
spring” games their M58A shottie is a vastly underrated
model. I bought my first one for next to nothing when
I lived in the USA as I wanted something that looked
in keeping for Nam games and with a bit of judicious
paintwork to give the stock and pump handle a “wood
effect” finish, I was well pleased with it! You can still pick
these little beauties up for under £30 in the UK and for
that you’ll get a pretty cool mag-fed, pump action shotgun
that bangs out a .20g BB at 300+fps that, with the little
slider hop set properly, will give you great range and great
accuracy!
In an airsoft world where we all seem to want the very
latest full-metal, fully-tricked “uber gnu” going back to a
humble spring shotgun can really sort out the “vets from
the rest” and it’s something that everyone should do from
time to time to remember where we all started not so many
years ago. I still love my M58A springer and after many
years of use it is still popping away just as well as it did
when it came out of the box.
But as I said, as good as that little plastic springer has
proved to be, it was something of a surprise to say the least
when I first clapped eyes on the new DE Airsoft ARs with
the new “FALCON” Electronic Fire Control System (EFCS),
which I’ll return to later in this review!
After watching a video of this EFCS online though, I
was properly taken aback and thought immediately that
I needed to get my hands on one of the new AEGs to
really check it out. As luck would have it, when I spoke to
my contacts at Taiwangun they had just begun to stock
a number of new DE Airsoft models. Whilst a number
of them look like “standard modern ARs” there are also
a couple of models that look surprisingly like “Honey
Badgers” but there was one model that stood out from the
crowd for me and that was the M904A.
“IN AN AIRSOFT WORLD WHERE WE ALL SEEM TO WANT THE VERY LATEST FULL-
METAL, FULLY-TRICKED “UBER GNU” GOING BACK TO A HUMBLE SPRING SHOTGUN
CAN REALLY SORT OUT THE “VETS FROM THE REST”…”
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JULY 2020