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Well, I'm pretty discouraged with this gun. I got my new Guarder enhanced nozzle, and makes absolutely no difference.
It seems that other than the nozzle, metal slide, barrel and airseal nozzle, nothing else works on this gun. They're all detrimental to its performance rather than enhancing it as they're supposed to.
As it stands with these upgrades, the gun fired well, but seriously, I think its accuracy is worse than when it was stock, even with the tightbore barrel installed. Stock, I could easily hit 1" groupings in my basement. Even with full hopup, my shots are always low, my groupings are about 3", and I have the occasional shot that goes WAY off mark (no specific direction). I can tell by the sounds that it hits the target a bit harder, but not significantly.
If I install the heavier hammer spring, it drains the gas off before I even have half a mag of BBs fired off. And that's with filling the mag to the max (till propane starts spewing as I fill - about 12 seconds).
If I install either the recoil spring that came with the metal slide or the Guarder spring, the slide won't cycle back all the way, so it will never lock back when the mag is empty. And after about 15 shots, there isn't enough pressure left to cycle the slide back far enough to even load a new BB.
The new piston head simply doesn't fucking fit. Either in the stock nozzle or the enhanced one, it's way too tight. It's useless. The increase in power I get with it is quite substantial, but it's so tight the slide can't cycle back enough to load a new BB.
So yeah, I'm pissed. I really went for the TM P226 because it was apparently one of the most upgradeable guns out there. I've wanted a P226 for a long time, so this seemed the logical choice. But in retrospect, I should have just spend less money on a stock KJW instead of this one.
So if anyone who has experience upgrading the TM P226 can shed some light on this, I'd love to hear some informed opinions on this. I know I performed the installation of the parts correctly. The combination of all these parts theoretically should have increased the power and accuracy of the gun significantly. But its accuracy is now worse, and I don't really see any performance increases.
Honestly, I'm quite frustrated and close to returning this gun to stock form, selling it and its parts, and just get a V2 KJW P226 instead.
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