The FRAG grenade, first use impressions (poor)

Bwian_eh?

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I bought a F.R.A.G-C grenade recently, it's a Dupont polymer impact grenade, that weighs just short of 200 grams, and it cost £54.99 new, I got it during a sale.
It takes .209 primers and reloads just like a standard TRMR.
I have owned, for comparison, swat's original impact design (that had to be dropped on its head) dynatex dominators of a couple of generations, and a few TRMRs. Have also owned SWAT and dynatex timed, and GR20s.

It's light, it has a push button safety, and is available in bright colours or more tactical colours. I picked purple just so it stands out against the floor-and I had a purple TRMR stolen which was only recovered when the bright purple grenade was noticed and then serial identified after being spotted in someone else's kit a couple of weeks later.

Anyway...some feedback.

They don't have a serial number on the body. You'll have to self serial- unfortunately these things do grow legs.

They aren't as nice a thing to own as a lovely machined TRMR- but you're only chucking it on the floor.

I think the safety is a much better push button design on the FRAG than the twist of the TRMR (which has a gap, when the safety was on, just big enough for a BB to jam) and although less satisfying than a pin, such as the dominator, it's better for Airsoft. It is harder to tell whether the safety is on at a glance, or in the dark before a throw, though. The easiest thing to do is leave it off.

I have very rarely had light strikes with either the dominator or the TRMR. I had about a 40% failure to fire yesterday, which were all light strikes on the primers, in an indoor cqb environment.

The light weight is pointless, from a safety point, if it has to be chucked with more force. I would imagine it would be terrible at a particular set of sites that impose knee high deployment only.

Honest opinion would be to swerve, and buy a dominator (if it has to be impact) or a dynatex timed grenade, as they're more versatile.
I don't think the TRMR clone or whatever it is is worth the money of being able to buy 2 of the cheaper dominators.

I had intended to buy 2 more if they were any good, but I am genuinely disappointed.
 
Thanks for the review.
I always did prefer timed (Dynatex & SWAT). Dropping one gently through a window and listening to the panic before detonation was always so satisfying 🤣
Never got a chance to play indoors but seen videos of em being rolled into rooms or down corridors very effectively.
 
Strange. I run 4 Frag's and have been through over 100 209 primers without any misfires. All used at a CQB site and from an underarm lob, so only the weight of the frag to set them off. I also have a couple of Quake's that I like but they are heavy, I sold my Dynatex BFG's as they worked well but again heavy and I had a few X police impacts that worked well but again heavy. I prefer the Frag's as they are lighter and, for me, work every time.
 
I've been using a frag c grenade for a while now and while I've had a couple of failures to detonate it's happened nowhere near as often as that. I did notice that the few times it didn't go off was when it landed on its side and rolled so the wobbly head part wouldn't hit anything
 
I might have a dud then. I will investigate, a friend had similar(ish) with a TRMR, they had a batch of improperly hardened firing pins.
I think the review is fair, and I can only say what has happened.
 
Not knocking the review mate however like a lot of reviews it's from a sample base of one. You see it a lot with youtube airsoft reviewers and they love or hate a product based on 1 sample. Not really a fair assessment and places like this forum are a better place to gauge a product as there is a larger pool of users, making the sample size a better indication of the product useability.
 
Not knocking the review mate however like a lot of reviews it's from a sample base of one. You see it a lot with youtube airsoft reviewers and they love or hate a product based on 1 sample. Not really a fair assessment and places like this forum are a better place to gauge a product as there is a larger pool of users, making the sample size a better indication of the product useability.
I get that. It's a damn site better than YouTube though, as we can actually have a discussion, and hence I'm now wondering if I genuinely have a Friday afternoon one.
If it was more reliable, it would be a glowing review, I like everything else about it.
 
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