The AAP-01 Owners Thread.

[Steveocee]

Think this'll ruffle some feathers of people who wear Crye everything and call each other by callsign.

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

Think this'll ruffle some feathers of people who wear Crye everything and call each other by callsign.

Obviously the power cord takes away some realism but I can appreciate that this is a tool optimised for CQB use.

 

[AlphaBear]

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Well look what I collected today!

Just had a quick test fire. 1 full gas fill on nuprol green that's been kept near the tumble dryer has chucked 1.5 drums worth of BB's so far I reckon. A mixture of semi and full auto firing.

It's a weighty beast but with the stock on and holding my left hand around the torch it feels well supported and near enough centred.

I'll hopefully have a play in the day time and record some footage after I've taken the kids to school this week!

Now this is looking pucker! The post-mid-life-crisis part of me is liking this!! I wonder if they make that stock extension in FDE otherwise it will be Krylon.. (meh).

So one gas fill is enough for about 500bbs? That's impressive. So how much gas do you reckon get's pumped into it?

 

[Steveocee]

Obviously the power cord takes away some realism but I can appreciate that this is tool optimised for CQB use.

Very much so. I fancied a parrallel path to my Hi Capa. For outdoors I have an SRS sniper and a G&G SRS P* although I am tempted to try the AAP in a few "closer range" outdoor scenarios.

 

[Steveocee]

Keep telling myself no more but I've just bought a black CNC magwell and charging handle to "finish it off".

Will update with pics when they arrive.

 

[Steveocee]

PDI barrel arrived this morning. What a beauty she is as well! Even has the oring at the end to ensire it's centered correctly and ideal length of 129mm. Strange how the ZCI was only 1mm longer but seemed to sit so much further forward. Anyway, installed it this evening and couldn't help but do a quick test fire. Again at 80psi I was getting roughly 300fps with a 0.25 which is about perfect for what I want.

I have noticed though a fairly bad feeding problem only getting about 1 in every 3 or 5 shots a BB comes through.

When I strip down for the nozzle valve spring I'll look into this more closely but did also notice the flow valve in the mag is leaking as well so that's going to get pulled out, lubed and then likely upgraded.

 

[AlphaBear]

PDI barrel arrived this morning. What a beauty she is as well! Even has the oring at the end to ensire it's centered correctly and ideal length of 129mm. Strange how the ZCI was only 1mm longer but seemed to sit so much further forward. Anyway, installed it this evening and couldn't help but do a quick test fire. Again at 80psi I was getting roughly 300fps with a 0.25 which is about perfect for what I want.



I have noticed though a fairly bad feeding problem only getting about 1 in every 3 or 5 shots a BB comes through.

When I strip down for the nozzle valve spring I'll look into this more closely but did also notice the flow valve in the mag is leaking as well so that's going to get pulled out, lubed and then likely upgraded.

I assume the barrel doesn’t stick out of the front end right? I mean protruding more than the outer barrel. Oh you all know what I mean lol

 

[Steveocee]

I assume the barrel doesn’t stick out of the front end right? I mean protruding more than the outer barrel. Oh you all know what I mean lol

Correct. Stock barrel is 129mm from what I can find and PDI have copied this, you can get away with a 130mm but I wouldn't want anything more without a suppressor or tracer.

 

[AlphaBear]

I'd be interested to hear how much difference in accuracy of groupings the PDI barrel makes over the stock barrel... I appreciate it's a pistol and not an AEG length barrel and in addition I guess you need to have an appropriate distance to test over say 30m-40m? I mean what's the general expectation of this pistol? It's not gonna be MK23 type level but would still be interesting to know what to expect.... 

 

[Piman]

Correct. Stock barrel is 129mm from what I can find and PDI have copied this, you can get away with a 130mm but I wouldn't want anything more without a suppressor or tracer.

Have a look at my earlier pictures. This has the PDI MK23 barrel which is 133mm long. Without the compensator on the Mamba upper or the thread protector on the standard receiver you can just see the end. With the mamba compensator it is fine. With the thread protector only it protrudes about 1mm.

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[Brett248]

Now this is looking pucker! The post-mid-life-crisis part of me is liking this!! I wonder if they make that stock extension in FDE otherwise it will be Krylon.. (meh).

So one gas fill is enough for about 500bbs? That's impressive. So how much gas do you reckon get's pumped into it?

not trying to one up but I am going to 

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[Steveocee]

Installed the charging ring and flared magwell last night. removed a short stroke and I think it just about solved the feeding issues. Bit low I can only use 1 buffer but to be fair it's plenty fast enough as it is anyway. got a bit of an issue in that the primary adapter doesn't fit with the magwell so need to "adjust" one of them but not sure which. Any ideas?

 

[Skara]

Magwells seem to be an issue for people running HPA taps or drum mags, most people just don't use them.

If it's a small amount of material that needs to be removed, I'd say go ahead and dremel the crap out of it (magwell, wouldn't touch the adapter).

 

[leadly]

not trying to one up but I am going to 

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Once I've ran out of green gas I'll be tapping my drum mag as well!

Loving the supressor!!!!

 

[Steveocee]

Magwells seem to be an issue for people running HPA taps or drum mags, most people just don't use them.

If it's a small amount of material that needs to be removed, I'd say go ahead and dremel the crap out of it (magwell, wouldn't touch the adapter).

Thank you @Skara for the words of encouragement. Seems an amount of dremeling resulted in me achieving my goal.

 

[AlphaBear]

Thank you @Skara for the words of encouragement. Seems an amount of dremeling resulted in me achieving my goal.

Crikey, you could take out a speed-softer or two with that and then you'd be everyone's friend

How does it feel in hand? Balance wise? Bottom heavy?

 

[leadly]

For some reason none of your photos are showing for me @Steveocee

 

[AlphaBear]

Same here. I can’t see his pics either on my iPhone. I can on my MacBook though. 

 

[Steveocee]

Crikey, you could take out a speed-softer or two with that and then you'd be everyone's friend

How does it feel in hand? Balance wise? Bottom heavy?

Yes it is a touch bottom heavy at the moment. May swap the mag case for a guarder aluminium to see if I can lose some weight.

For some reason none of your photos are showing for me @Steveocee

Same here. I can’t see his pics either on my iPhone. I can on my MacBook though. 

I bet it's because I copy/pasted from my Google photos. Will upload properly tomorrow.

 

[AlphaBear]

Just saw this on Facebook. If a drum mag ain’t enough let’s add a ghille suit into the mix. 

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