It's been a couple of weeks since Michigan Monster Game, but I wanted to show off the N5.
A couple of things to note:
The pump stroke is ultra short!
Since it's a Nova, the trigger pull is also ultra short.
For those that don't know, this is a hybrid pump/semi that is actuated by the grey safety looking button on the upper tray of the body.
It's mostly tool-less, meaning that there are 2 pins that hold the body from the tray. (metal and have detents so you can't lose them unless you take the detents out)
The back cap is threaded so if you have some heinous breaks, you can degas and unscrew it to run a swab out pretty fast.
Cocker threaded.
Has rubber finger ball detents.
It's still an open bolt spooly so you don't have to worry about rollouts and bore matching, mostly. (this is on both modes)
Since it's Cocker threaded, you don't need to run the Reaper barrel with it... But why wouldn't you?
Milling and anno is really nice and very much closely matches what you've seen in photos.
With that, not a lot of weird gaps and such for the main pieces: Body, Tray (that's what I'm calling it), and Frame.
Inherent with the design, it's easy to flip modes and can cause some low grade confusion if you are expecting it to pump and doesn't or you didn't pump it (cocking the marker to shoot semi) and it just puffs.
All in all, I'm really happy with this early release model, even with the slight quirks. With the fact that it's essentially a pneumatic assist pump and can switch to semi on the fly, I'm sure that I won't be able to use this for a tournament, anytime soon. I'm waiting on some new parts and to level out some velocity issues and get a full breakdown on how to, well, breakdown the marker completely.
If you gotta have something bleeding edge and want a definite conversation starter at the field, go snag one off the site. It's live now.
Oh, and I might be designing some parts for it already
A couple of things to note:
The pump stroke is ultra short!
Since it's a Nova, the trigger pull is also ultra short.
For those that don't know, this is a hybrid pump/semi that is actuated by the grey safety looking button on the upper tray of the body.
It's mostly tool-less, meaning that there are 2 pins that hold the body from the tray. (metal and have detents so you can't lose them unless you take the detents out)
The back cap is threaded so if you have some heinous breaks, you can degas and unscrew it to run a swab out pretty fast.
Cocker threaded.
Has rubber finger ball detents.
It's still an open bolt spooly so you don't have to worry about rollouts and bore matching, mostly. (this is on both modes)
Since it's Cocker threaded, you don't need to run the Reaper barrel with it... But why wouldn't you?
Milling and anno is really nice and very much closely matches what you've seen in photos.
With that, not a lot of weird gaps and such for the main pieces: Body, Tray (that's what I'm calling it), and Frame.
Inherent with the design, it's easy to flip modes and can cause some low grade confusion if you are expecting it to pump and doesn't or you didn't pump it (cocking the marker to shoot semi) and it just puffs.
All in all, I'm really happy with this early release model, even with the slight quirks. With the fact that it's essentially a pneumatic assist pump and can switch to semi on the fly, I'm sure that I won't be able to use this for a tournament, anytime soon. I'm waiting on some new parts and to level out some velocity issues and get a full breakdown on how to, well, breakdown the marker completely.
If you gotta have something bleeding edge and want a definite conversation starter at the field, go snag one off the site. It's live now.
Oh, and I might be designing some parts for it already
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