The boys from Snatch review the Clas­sic Army SCAR.

- Why are we review­ing the SCAR Turk­ish? What’s wrong with your cur­rent AEG?

- Oh noth­ing Tommy, its tip top…I’m just not sure about the colour…

Oh, how the worm has turned.

Clas­sic Army were once the pariah of air­soft.  Their guns were plagued with unre­li­ab­il­ity and their repu­ta­tion was a joke.

The latest gen­er­a­tion of CA guns have been, well, some­thing spe­cial.  Power­ful, spe­cial­ist and much much more reli­able.  Not as reli­able as Tokyo Marui’s guns, but much higher in spec.  This change star­ted with the amaz­ing CQB, which very quickly became con­sidered as the best “off the shelf” gun in the world.  Sure some of them had prob­lems, espe­cially with the pis­ton head, but CA were listen­ing closely and the next gen­er­a­tion on from that “clas­sic” aeg has arrived.  Kieran bought the first one; the Kitty Kat ‘alike SEAL CQB, a M4 made into the smal­lest form pos­sible with a stock.  He has been play­ing with it every week and loves the solid reliability.

CA then set to work on some­thing very spe­cial indeed; the SCAR.

— My God, Tommy. What have you been read­ing? Fuck me. Hold tight. What’s that?

- It’s me Multicam.

- No, Tommy. There’s an AEG in your gunbag.

- It’s for protection.

- Pro­tec­tion from what? “Zee” Darkan­gels? Where did you get it?

- Boris The Blade.

- Boris The Blade, or Boris The Bullet-Dodger. Bent as the Soviet sickle and hard as the ham­mer that crosses it. Appar­ently, it’s just impossible to kill the bastard.

WIKIPEDIA:

SOF Com­bat Assault Rifle, or SCAR, is a mod­u­lar rifle made by Fab­rique Nationale (FN) for the U.S. Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand (SOCOM) to sat­isfy the require­ments of the SCAR competition.

…The SCAR fea­tures an integ­ral, unin­ter­rup­ted Pic­a­t­inny rails on the top of the alu­minium receiver, two remov­able side rails and a bot­tom one that can mount any MIL-STD-1913 com­pli­ant accessor­ies. The ori­ginal SCAR pro­to­types used the same Pis­tol grip and lower receiver design as the FN FNC.

Stats.

— Tyrone’ll drive for us. He’s done a rally driv­ing course.

- Of course I have

- You said he was a get­away driver. What the fuck can he get away from?

- Don’t worry about Tyrone. He can move when he has to. Worry about get­ting us a gun. What’s that?

- This is a SCAR, Sol.

- It’s a fuck­ing anti-aircraft gun, Vincent.

- I want to raise pulses, don’t I?

- You’ll raise hell, never mind pulses.

My SCAR Loadout:

Basic stats are excellent,

• Unique Serial Number
• Metal Char­ging Handle
• 7mm Metal Bear­ing Gear Box
• Hi-Cap Magazine (300 Rd)
• Metal Flip up Front & Rear Sight
• CNC made Metal Upper Receiver
• Up to 9.6V Mini Type Bat­tery can be used
• Fibre Lower Receiver & Retract­able Fold­ing Stock
• Magazine Released Catch can func­tion in both sides of receiver
• Bear­ing Spring Guide, Bear­ing Pis­ton Head, Sealed Nozzle & Cylinder
• Motor without screw type

Indeed the SCAR is very much Fla­vour of the month and raises both hell and pulses. Com­puter games like Ghost Recon have made the SCAR an almost per­quis­ite for the ultra-SAS style lead-out. Lets have a look at some of the guns design fea­tures and how they add to a play­ers cap­ab­il­it­ies in battle.

The Good.

— The fact that you’ve got “Rep­lica” writ­ten on the side of your gun…and the fact that I’ve got “SCAR”…written on the side of mine…should precipitate…your balls into shrink­ing, along with your presence.

The gun is a proper rifle. Longer than per­haps you would expect, it is suit­able for almost all ranges.

The fold­ing stock obvi­ously improves CQB per­form­ance and the mul­tiple rails are a geardo’s best friend. The fold­ing action is excel­lent and very easy to do even in midst of battle. The stock locks in the fol­ded pos­i­tion but unlike the LR300, you can eas­ily un-fold the stock. So quick chan­ging as you move in and out of pos­i­tions is simple and effect­ive. I would say that it is almost identical to the G36 action. The cheek pad also moves but I per­son­ally think this is a gim­mick rather and some­thing that will make any dif­fer­ence at air­soft ranges.

Folded stock:

The upper part of the body is a solid single piece of metal, which gives the gun fant­astic twist res­ist­ance and far exceeds a TM even with a body upgrade.

Nice trades:

The iron sights fold down for when using a red dot and this is a great fea­ture if, like me, you change your red dot often. The selector switch is on both sides, mak­ing the gun lefty friendly, which is nice in CQB where even as a right hander you will be swap­ping shoulders all the time.

- Heavy, isn’t it?

- Heavy is good. Heavy is reli­able.  If it doesn’t work, you can always hit him with it.

Weight is in the middle, when the bat­tery is in, but the gun is heavy for sure. I can still effect­ively single hand it, but smal­ler play­ers will struggle.

It comes with all the clips needed to prop­erly sling the piece and I have attached it to my Chalker with no problems.

In use, with the stand­ard bat­tery, its range is stock CA. Noth­ing spe­cial and at Long­moor I def­in­itely had to ‘aim up’. But for Elec­trowekz ranges, the gun per­forms very well indeed. It is very accur­ate and all my BB’s are land­ing in a very tight circle. I have no prob­lems at all in pick­ing off a hanging chain 9 out of 10 times at 35ft. My SCAR ROF is fast and the gear­box sounds great. The gear­box includes a Teflon type cyl­in­der as well as an alu­minium pis­ton head and spring guide with bearing.

FPS was meas­ured as 310 straight (.2BB’s) . This is very nice indeed and I was very glad that the gun was not too hot for CQB.

The body comes apart with ease, only a few pins to remove and the whole breaks down into 3 main parts.

Upgrades are already out and CA have star­ted selling a 10volt upgrade kit! This obvi­ously means that the gears are made of stern stuff. The motor is a high torque so upgrad­ing the spring is pos­sible too.

CA SCAR Enlarge Stock (Tan) With 10.8v 1700mah Battery

ROF is good, but not amaz­ing. Say around 800 a minute.

The stock 1700 8.4v bat­tery las­ted me 6 hours of com­bat. Now, I am not the most trig­ger happy of people and never fire in sus­tained mode. How­ever, I do think that even with the small, it was very good.

The Bad.

- Do you know what Nemesis means? A right­eous retri­bu­tion as delivered by an appro­pri­ate agent. In this case an aeg; the SCAR.

So far so nor­mal for a SCAR review. Lots of good­ies and things to get you excited. How­ever, this gun is not without its problems.

Firstly, the paint. Now I have a mul­ticam loadout and the SCAR’s tan paint job fit­ted the bill. How­ever, the paint on the upper part of the body come off very very quickly. My SCAR is strewn with scratches through the paint and I haven’t dropped it or stored it in any rough way. It is all through nor­mal play where the gun swings against my rig. Very disappointing.

Secondly, access­ing the bat­tery is a night­mare. You have to fold the stock, use an allen key to undo and loosen the bolt. Then the stock slides out. Often it just falls out and the bat­tery hangs by its wires, which cant be good for them. Finally you have to reverse all this to attach it back! In com­bat bat­tery changes are effect­ively impossible.

Folded stock, get­ting to the battery:

Now, there is a way around this, but it is a mod in effect. Basic­ally there is a small screw hold­ing the stock to the bolt that the allen key attaches too. You can remove this and thus the entire stock will slide off if you pull the stock pos­i­tion back far enough. An answer, yes, but not a very sat­is­fy­ing one.

Thirdly, the rails are fixed using an allen key size that I couldn’t find in 4 dif­fer­ent sets. This includes my US set, my leather­man, my bike set and all my ran­dom scope keys. This means that I simply can­not remove a rail form the side. Pos­sibly not an issue for you, but for me; try­ing to attach a gun­cam, it was a bar’steward.

Finally, the rail is very low to the top of the gun.  So low in fact that with a full face mask on you can hardly use it.  I have had to buy a M4 scope riser.

ATN Holosight:

Res­ults.

- Good dags. Do you like dags?

- Dags? What?

- Yeah, dags.  Dags. You like dags?

- Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags. I like SCAR’s better.

I like the SCAR. It is by far the best built stock gun I have ever used. Envi­ous looks fol­low it around the bat­tle­field (if that is your bag) and hit newbs will sur­round you in battle (it that is your bag). Its bat­tery life is fine, its range is good, its power is heavy, its stock folds, it takes every type of extra.

How­ever, most new style M4’s have all of this. So what are you getting?

Your’re get­ting the little details that make this gun spe­cial. The small touches that show a gun that has been designed to replace the M4.  It has out of the box fea­tures that you would expect to be on an M4, but actu­ally aren’t.

I love mine.

The DAs tool up:

Here is a movie of the gun in use at Long­moor.  It is take from the point of view of a cam­era attached to the gun, but you can clearly see the ROF and accuracy.

Regards,

Basho

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