Airsoft Replica EC-204 Advanced Edition (upgraded gearbox, programmable ETU) - Dark Earth [E&C]

Gun looks and feels great. The ETU is easy to use. By default it has safe and semi but can be easily programed to add burst or auto. Out of the box gun can hop 40s and is pretty accurate. Cant shoot low weight bbs under 30s though. Bbs will either fly right to the dirt or straight to the sky. Trigger is pretty snappy. Came with a metal flash hider that was painted orange. Was easy to just scratch the orange paint off it so no need to buy a new flash hider. Standard 14mm- no glue or pin. Has a nice weight and feels sturdy. So far my only issue was the mock bolt catch. It broke after only a few uses. So the bolt is locked backed permanently at least until i figure out how to fix it. Not too huge a problem but still kinda sucks. Can just leave the dust cover up to keep dirt out of the hopup. Overall love the gun. Already bought another gun from EC

Let me start by saying I had very high hopes for this product. And although some of the features live up to my expectations just a couple do not

Externally this thing is exactly what you see. It is rock solid, very quality and extremely well put together

Once you get past the surface things don't exactly fall apart but there are some shortcomings

Will start with the biggest letdown which was the kestrel mosfet

I never got into any of the programming modes because it simply did not function every time

I would get 8-10 maybe even 15 trigger pulls and then dead trigger. Nothing whatsoever, switching the selector to either the auto position which is disabled from the factory or the safety position and then back to semi would restore usage for the same amount of trigger pulls

I didn't even bother to troubleshoot it, I had a leviathan on hand for a different build that I hadn't gotten to yet so I just put it into this replica instead

Another gripe I had was the quick change spring. The slots in the rear of the receiver don't exactly match up with the slots at the rear of the gearbox. It can be changed by removing the buffer tube, but it's a lot of fishing to get everything to come out smoothly. The best solution I have found is putting the buffer tube screw into the actual spring guide and then rocking it around sometimes for three or four minutes before it finally comes loose

Magnets in the motor are very weak, it's probably OK I guess, but I swapped it for a 28 TPA as I don't plan on using auto at any point. Maybe a con maybe or not. Most people would swap a stock motor anyways

The only other disappointment would be a non-radiused gearbox shell. Come on, it's really not hard to do and took me maybe five minutes with a Dremel and the correct bit

That's it, those are the only 3 real cons I can think of. As I've been into the gearbox I can say that everything else is pretty awesome.

Not necessarily a con, but I did swap the sector gear and the spur gear bearings for bushings.

Although I don't necessarily believe the Bearings will fail, I don't feel like taking that chance.

All other internal components were high-quality and although I usually swap a few things I didn't feel the need to swap a single other component. The factory shimming seemed to be on point, AOE was very good, was not excessively greased, may be slightly under greased. Everything With the exception of the Mosfet and the bearings that I swapped out for bushings (which was a personal choice) is good to go right from the factory.

The factory bucking was very very effective and extremely reminiscent of the true hop bucking. Giving excellent excellent range right out of the box.

The one other thing that I did swap was the factory barrel for a Lambda 6.01 at 455 mm. It says it comes With a 450 mm, it is actually factory 455

Overall I am very happy with my purchase. The Kestrel did leave a Bad impression but I wouldn't let it be a dealbreaker. And like I said I never got to the point of troubleshooting and just swapped to the Leviathan which I've already installed in four of my own personal replicas

Overall except for that one item I would highly recommend this and it is a rock solid choice

"A very well-built replica! It's sturdy, just as you would expect from this design, made with high-quality materials and excellent craftsmanship. It delivers exactly what is promised – straight out of the 1.8j box. With a bit of tuning, it's the pinnacle of heavy DMRs. I really like it!"

This gun is epic. I received it one day late due to an issue outside their control. They communicated it to me early. It's a fantastic gun. The cheek rest is a bit loose but that is minor. This gun is a good buy for DMR setups.

the replica is very robust and sturdily built. the colors are well suited to a G28. It shoots very well, accurate to 60m, with heavier BBs perhaps even more accurate and further. Standard M4 magazine ouches do not fit for the G28 magazines, so you would have to buy larger ones but that's the smallest problem!

The 2 things that I don't like so much but anyway no problem in general is that the cheekrest is a little loose and the boltcatch has a little play forward and backward.

The replica already weighs "a lot" by default, so about 4kg if sight come on it and handle and maybe a laser for the optics, then you are certainly on 5.5-5.8kg.

Anyway, it's a very good weapon out of the box with a built in mosfet, which you can program!

i hope i could help you a lil bit!

Best regards!

It's very strong and robust, the only thing that's loose is the cheekrest and with the Bolt Catch you have a slight play to the left and to the right, otherwise it's pretty robust. Out of the box, the replica shoots pretty accurately up to 60 m, of course you have to take the wind into account for a bit of an offset, but pretty accurately at 60 m, as I said, anything over that would need heavier BBS like zero 45 or something heavier. The weapon is inherently quite heavy so you don't need many attachments. For a DMR the weapon shoots very quickly like a Cyma Daniel Defense mk18 with a Cyma Platinum gearbox (very crispy trigger). The magazines are very large, i.e. the magazine will not fit into an M4 magazine pouch, so a G28 pouch is required.
I hope i could help a little bit. :)

I am very VERY pleased with the EC-204 it is a amazing replica straight out of the box and i really recommend going for this DMR. Its body feels really sturdy and strong, it shoots great and just looks amazing. It is the newest but greatest addition to my collection.
I rate everything 10/10 on this replica