M4/ M16A1- Which one's better, and what company makes the best?
 

Yeah so, I was thinking of getting either an M16A1 or an M4, and I was wondering which company makes it the best (except Tokyo Marui because I want a full metal one). I'm looking for one with decent firepower and rate of fire, price range is whatever but I don't want the super high priced systema ones since they're pretty powerful.

All I'm looking for is a good quality, reliable and good for beginners to the version 2 gearbox gun. I was thinking G&G or KWA, but I've heard that with a G&G, tweaks have to be made before the gun can be used. I had a friend who bought a G&G FN-Scar and it broke down on him within a month...

So some advice on some info would be nice

try looking for AGM brands, they are somewhat same level clones as JG but most AGM brands are metal.

Classic Army

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I'd have to say KWA builds the best Armalite platforms. They shoot 400FPS out of the box, are Li-Po ready, and come fully upgraded with an 8mm bearing re-enforced v2 gearbox.

They have been compared with Systema PDW's for build quality, and the asthetics are quite good too if you don't care about trades.

KWA is my vote.

i love the star ar's. i would reccommend the 16 and it gets some pretty awesome range and accuracy.

KWA all the way.

G&P or Kingarms.

classic army for me, love the G&Gs for externals, but have to agree, internals...ishhhhh

KWA deffinatly

PTW, but the cost thing.... I was gonna go with a KWA. I've heard many good things about them.

Looks like he's in America so he won't get raped as badly if he decides to go with a PTW.

G&P, yeahhhh

King Arms best out of the box next to TM.

My personal opinion is the Tokyo Marui is the best of the stock standard weapons and truly reliable.
Its a good starter weapon, and you can always upgrade to a metal body and other bits and pieces when you have the extra cash or feel like pimping out your weapon.

But I am biased, as I mostly own TM's (8) and 1 G&G G4 CQB-R.

The G&G CQB-R is a very recent purchase and I am still evaluating its performance and reliability.

I have sat back and watched other people and their different brands, such as Classic Army and JG, and have seen some of them have issue after issue. I tend to let other people test the water first, and try not to buy possible problem child's.
But in saying that, every brand can have lemons.

I would actually recommend staying away from the KWA line. They DONT use 8mm bushings they use a combo of 8 and 9mm bearings along with some other nonstandard parts that are hard to come by. TM , G&G , CA are all good starter guns that should get you on the field and able to compete.