I made three mistakes with this gun. The first was I built it new. That’s always costly, and to a college student, it’s hard. The second mistake was I Sandridged it. To this day I regret the travesty of cutting up such a beautiful body for what turned out to be a horrible experience. The first day of play, it took us to second place at the NCPA MICT, where it chewed through opponents all day until the last game, where it breathed its last as a functioning gun. During that game and for as long as I owned it after, no matter what I did it chopped paint. After realizing that I could keep throwing money at it or move on, I moved on and sold it. Mistake number three. I still wish I had it back because I still believe someway, somehow it could have worked. Or I could have done what a friend did and modify it into an open bolt E-gun. Very interesting to see a cocker that looks like its firing in reverse.