ICS M4 Para Anniversary 2006

This post was pub­lished over 700 days ago and there­fore may not rep­res­ent cur­rent Out­side Con­text think­ing or opin­ion. Please, do not let that detract from your enjoy­ment of it!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS & BATTLE REPORT

ICS, in cel­eb­ra­tion of their 10 year anniversary have forged, in secret, a mas­ter gun. One gun to rule them all, one gun to find them, one gun to bring them all, and in the dark­ness lace the shit out them!

Here she is in all her glory:

(Click for a lar­ger, more detailed image)

Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that this is a very unique and spe­cial look­ing gun and not at all deserving of the com­ments she has received from the like of Dark­lite:

So it’s not incred­ibly real­istic — and still looks like it fell out of the arse of the ugli­est bird in ugly­land at the top of the ugli­est uglytree and hit every ugly branch on the way down to the ugly ground before being trampled to extreme ugly­ness by a ram­pa­ging hoard of uglybears.

Rub­bish sir! The ICS is not ugly; no one would call her ugly that held her. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She’s a fine war­bird: weath­erly, stiff and fast… very fast, if she’s well handled. No, she’s not ugly; she’s in her prime.

Of course, she had a metal nose…

So, what’s in the box? What do you get for your £269? Actu­ally quite a lot:

• Unique Indi­vidu­ally Serial Numbered Body.
• Com­plete Rein­forced Main Gear Set, Steel Pin­ion Gear, Steel Bevel Gear, Steel Bush­ings, Metal Spring Guide, M120 Spring, Alu­minum Pis­ton, Bore-Up Cyl­in­der, Strengthened Gear­box, New Sil­ic­one Wiring.
• Work­ing for­ward assist to release the gears.
• Super Torque-Up Turbo 3000 Upgraded to M120.
• Metal Body, metal Receiver — Lower & Upper, Bar­rel, Front Parts, Sight, Stock, Hand­guard, metal Fold­ing Stock.
• Spring Eject RIS Bi-Pod Ver­tical Grip Two High Caps, Speed­loader, T-Shirt, Sling.
• Metal Tsunami RAS.
• Sanyo Bat­tery in PEQ Bat­tery Box.

Which, as any­one would agree is a lot of value for £269!

I received the gun at the start of the Ground Zero Week­ender and was able to give her a thor­ough run through a check out, both in the range and in the field. Now, I had asked for her to be down­graded to 328fps because Elec­trow­erkz has a very firm limit on feet per second. Zero One had not only down graded her, but also charged the bat­tery, which was very nice of them since it is a small con­nector and I only have a large con­nector on my charger.

I zipped up a high­cap of BB’s and let rip at a dis­tant tree. As a com­par­ison I also fired on the same tar­get with my LR 300 cus­tom £800 AEG, which has a real steel holosight, Sys­tema high­speed motor (ooooo­hhh) as well as Pro­meth­eus intern­als and a tight bore barrel.

To put that into con­text, on the Sunday and using the LR I was able to shoot a guy stand­ing 60 meters away, single shot, in the back of the head. To stand up to that chal­lenge the ICs would have to be hot stuff!

And stand up it did. The rate of fire is of very high qual­ity, some­where below my LR with its Sys­tema but def­in­itely above a stock TM. Accur­acy was good to very good and I was drop­ping rounds onto the tree with no issues. It doesn’t have the upgraded inner bar­rel, but it was more than good enough for combat.

Since the whole thing is full metal it has a very nice and very solid feel on the shoulder, which cut down my aim time by a fair whack. I would say that it is bal­anced very well, even with the PEQ box bat­tery and snap shoot­ing was not a prob­lem. The stock folds down and has a slight bump when fol­ded to hold it in place. I didn’t find it jumped around at all in play.

The tube stick­ing out the back, which was the cause of so much con­sterna­tion amongst the gear­dos is in fact identical to the RS ver­sion and a god send in air­soft because this is where the sling mount has been attached and it is a very nat­ural pos­i­tion for it to be in. I found it attached with no wor­ries to my Chalker sling and the whole pack­age sat nicely on my front without drag­ging me for­wards like many other full metal guns do (the hate­full Star Sop­mod being the worst.)

So how did it fair in battle?

<—Battle

Well, for a change, the Darkan­gel team was fight­ing in wood­land this week­end and since this is not a nat­ur­ally ten­able pos­i­tion for the DA’s to find them­selves we have a very short time to come to terms with being in wood­land, before we got hit and had to sit out for ten minutes.

Obvi­ously in those few moments before being laced, it is the qual­ity of your gun that adds the dif­fer­ence between liv­ing and not. For example, a AAA bat­tery gun isn’t going to win, no mat­ter how good you are.

The ICS helped. It went through the mud and trees, it went through the bushes and got down and dirty and every time came up trumps. I had fant­astic suc­cess using this gun on this day and my final kill count was 27 down for 13 lives with 9 of those being bang kills. Lovely!

Also a nice fea­ture was the bipod. It meant that I could put the gun down and not worry about it being in the mud. Very handy indeed!

Accur­acy… Well to be sure, hav­ing a proper bipod helps a lot in obtain­ing pin point accur­acy in the field. How­ever, please wait dear reader as next Tues­day I will be test­ing it out before the games in Elec­trow­erkz, which are as near to ideal con­di­tions as you can get. Suf­fice to say that dur­ing this week­end I was hit­ting everything I shot at and frankly that is all you can ask for with any gun.

The only gun I have that is bet­ter cost £800, so nuff said. The value of this pack­age is immense and it is by far the best air­soft pur­chase, backed by Z1’s rock solid war­ranty, that I could have hoped for.

Buy one, you wont regret it. As lex said,

“Its very niiice!”

Here are some images of the trades and two movies; one I show the spring loaded bipod and two I fire the gun dry.

The free T-shirt

MOVIES:

First I show the spring loaded legs:

<—-CLICK FOR MOVIE

Next I show the gun fir­ing (the noise is very loud for an AEG).

The first sound is single shot, then you can hear a burst, then you can hear my wife moan­ing about me shoot­ing in the house, then I press the for­ward assist and release the gears.

<—-CLICK FOR MOVIE

So, next week will come a battle report in my home turf; CQB and a full accur­acy test from the top floor of elec­tro… watch this space!

Regards,

Basho

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