Bintac quality
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Just bringing it up because I saw your previous post.
Just bringing it up because I saw your previous post.
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Their Facebook page is mostly complaints of bad quality and broken valve pins. They're the lowest made in China quality.
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AEA is cheap with lots of energy, that’s their selling point, NOT quality. As someone who owns one my personal opinion is if you really want something hard hitting and can swing it, step up to a GK1 for small form factor or rattler for something bigger if you want a high power semi auto.
EDIT (addition) - If you want overwhelming evidence there’s a YouTuber who shills AEA/BinTac products but is honest enough to also post all the problems he has. And he has A LOT. As much as some of the stuff he advocates for drives me crazy (would be forum violations if you catch my drift) and is terrible for the community he’s probably the most honest when it comes to showing all the issues he has https://youtube.com/@macabespeed?si=0RLhle-C4iwXGJXp.
EDIT (addition) - If you want overwhelming evidence there’s a YouTuber who shills AEA/BinTac products but is honest enough to also post all the problems he has. And he has A LOT. As much as some of the stuff he advocates for drives me crazy (would be forum violations if you catch my drift) and is terrible for the community he’s probably the most honest when it comes to showing all the issues he has https://youtube.com/@macabespeed?si=0RLhle-C4iwXGJXp.
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AEA sucks a fat man sweaty ass crack after Taco Bell.
I have owned, unfortunately, two AEA rifles. Before I had 20 shots on each of them, I literally burned them both in my fire pit. They make excellent firewood!!!
I have owned, unfortunately, two AEA rifles. Before I had 20 shots on each of them, I literally burned them both in my fire pit. They make excellent firewood!!!
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Honestly aea should be looked at as disposable. They work a little bit then die. The semi auto ones are complete trash. I know a store in Florida who stopped selling them because of all of the returns.
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Sucks because the s45 semi auto really is appealing at face value. There's a guy on YouTube who did a little work to his and seems to have corrected the issues. Thought on this?
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I've seen, and heard all the bad press regarding AEA. For the price point they seem to offer a lot. Bit as others have said, there are many reports of problems. Especially with the semi autos. That said I've had the Challenger Pro in .30 for 2-3 years now and haven't had the first problem. Even my mags are holding up. They seem to be hit, or miss.
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I too heard of the problems with AEA, but I still bought an Element Max. I’ve only had it for about 8 months, but have had zero problems. Maybe that’s due to the simpler single shot design.
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Wouldn’t touch one with a 100000000 foot pole or any other of their semi auto guns. Just my opinion but north of 1k and AEA don’t belong in the same sentence. Just go on YouTube and watch the macabespeed channel. That will tell a lot about them.
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I'll give him points for honesty. I don't care much for his videos, but from what I've seen he frequently posts examples of terrible groups and when questioned about it in the comments simply comes out and states that he's not a good marksman. I much prefer that to the guys that seem to either cherry pick or fabricate their groups.
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The other thing I like is you can tell he genuinely enjoys Airguns. I just wish he stayed away from advocating certain things.
Also his hi-cap project is really cool but there’s a reason Bin has never sold anything like that. He directly told me there’s some off the book guidelines and the hi-cap mags are absolutely over the line. But I guess someone was guaranteed to do it, that is the progression of technology…
Also his hi-cap project is really cool but there’s a reason Bin has never sold anything like that. He directly told me there’s some off the book guidelines and the hi-cap mags are absolutely over the line. But I guess someone was guaranteed to do it, that is the progression of technology…
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I had an AEA Assassin that shot well, but the mags were junk, sold it. Then had an AEA Standard (lower power version to the varmint) and that one was a tack driver with pellets, only sold it cause it was too long for my liking. They have more lemons than good ones.
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AEA refuses to incorporate a bare bone simple hammer pre load adjuster into their technology. Tells me everything I need to know about them.
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Have a few AEA/Bintac big bore pieces, no issues. All I can say, watch the instructional videos and use cert. ammo. Bintac has always answered any questions I had regarding any of the AEA equipment.
2ea sf compact, 2ea element max, 1ea S45, 1ea zeus.
2ea sf compact, 2ea element max, 1ea S45, 1ea zeus.
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I would recommend to look at the Air Pistol thread, https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/what-do-you-think-of-this-new-aea-m50-pistol.1292377/page-3
"xsiv4s" is one but I am sure there are others, and other air gun tuners whom have the CNC tools to basically correct the flawed parts. The AEA and BinTac to me have great creative ideas but they got greedy and cut down the quality which resulted in cheap parts or parts not fully machined; same problem other brands like Hatsan has had. China can make quality products but only when the company whom contracts with their manufacturing shops creates a good quality control and specifications to follow; China can make quality but if you do not specify and do quality control you will not get it.
Look at this picture from "xsiv4s" that to me is a great example of how a metal craftsman can fix cheap production parts which is what is needed. It sounds like if you are willing to down the rabbit hole of custom tuning and custom parts that would be a way to resolve the issues?,
"xsiv4s" is one but I am sure there are others, and other air gun tuners whom have the CNC tools to basically correct the flawed parts. The AEA and BinTac to me have great creative ideas but they got greedy and cut down the quality which resulted in cheap parts or parts not fully machined; same problem other brands like Hatsan has had. China can make quality products but only when the company whom contracts with their manufacturing shops creates a good quality control and specifications to follow; China can make quality but if you do not specify and do quality control you will not get it.
Look at this picture from "xsiv4s" that to me is a great example of how a metal craftsman can fix cheap production parts which is what is needed. It sounds like if you are willing to down the rabbit hole of custom tuning and custom parts that would be a way to resolve the issues?,
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Thats not all AEA pcps, I have a big 9 standard i have had for 3 years and not one problem yet it has more power than the M 357 or the rattler. i have to laugh at you people that nock China's ability to build quality. 90 % of everything you buy comes from there Leupold Scopes,Athlon just to name 2. Most of all things made, there components are from China.
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