…how to spot a fake.
We’ve all see the eBay special Fakepoints etc. Trademarks look right but the products are normally sold for Airsofter’s and come in plain brown boxes.
These are some items a friend recently sent me from Hong Kong. Just thought I would share. I wanted these for my Smith and Wesson M&P-22 I’m about to start putting together. I wanted to pimp it out and I knew I could spend more in accessories then the damn gun cost so I called up a friend to see what he could get me. I ended up getting a few items for some of my other AR’s too. I couldn’t believe some of the stuff he found for me.
All of them came in full packaging with full instructions etc. I threw out some of the larger packaging before I thought to take pictures.
Magpul MS2 Sling…
The top ones real, the bottom ones fake. The strapping is just as silky soft as the real one and for the most part other then the buckle looking thing at the quick pull tight loop and the finish, it’s a pretty DAMN good copy. The real one runs about $60, the copy cost me $10 dollars. Even came in the correct packaging as you will see below.
The Magpul RSA is also a copy. The cost was $6 dollars. Also came in packaging with instructions. The Magpul Bad Lever packaging is real, just tossed it in for a comparison.
Made in the USA my ass!
The Surefire Scoutlight also came with real packaging and instructions. One thing to note, the head is not sealed like a real one but someone who doesn’t KNOW, well wouldn’t know. Uses a CREE C5 LED so its about 120 lumen BRIGHTER then my real Surefire G2 LED. My friend says its 200 Lumen and I believe it. They even make a replica LaRue QD mount.
The light included both the clicker cap AND The pressure switch.
The cost was $28 for the light, $9 for the LaRue mount.
American Defense Aimpoint Mount. Cost, $13 dollars. Even comes apart like the real one and you can even buy the different riser inserts like the real American Defense sells. I have one of those Sig Sauer wanna be Aimpoint Micro’s coming to use with this on my M&P-22 although those are designed to handle 5.56… Hrmmmm lol, maybe I need a couple more of these!
And my favorite… Daniel Defense Mk18 RIS II in Dark Earth. Trademarked like the real thing and fully CNC machined, NOT cast with the standard pot metal. Included a hardened steel barrel nut and the mounting bracket along with all the screws. Cost, $71 dollars.
They even laser engraved the trademarks that go INSIDE the rail. You know the ones you can’t see once it’s installed. Why would you need those if the stuff wasn’t suppose to pass for “real”?
Installed on to one of my Del-Ton builds. Mounts right up nice and straight. Sucker is ROCK solid with zero flex or movement.
My friend was telling me its no longer about Airsoft replica’s, it’s about counterfeits. He said with our new pres in office AR’s have been flying off the shelves in record numbers with new owners buying TONS of accessories so they figured why not counterfeit all that stuff too like they do shoes, handbags, watches, etc.
I’ll have to post some of the pictures my friend sent me of the stuff I didn’t get. He said he could get Magpul UBR’s, ACS’s, ASAP’s, AEG’s, MBus sights, pretty much ALL the Magpul stuff. Before anyone says well Magpul is licensing the Magpul stuff under the name Magpul PTS for airsoft, yea that stuff is MARKED Magpul PTS, this stuff is all marked, in the proper packaging to be sold as the REAL thing.
I got a really nice LaRue marked scope mount coming too. $27 dollars the dealer was out of stock on that one so he said he would have to send it next week when more come in from Mainland China. Again for you guys who say blah its all cheap Chinese knock offs, yes they make those to but these counterfeits are amazing quality and finish. These are not your run of the mill “airsoft knock offs”. He said pretty much anything you could want it for sale over there and the buy he bought it from said he sells hundreds of each item to people all over the USA daily. I’m sure as hell never buying parts from a non authorized dealer again! 
Before anyone’s asks where they can get his stuff, you can’t… Well, maybe you can but I didn’t order it from a shop, a have a friend who lives in Hong Kong, he found it all for me and send it to me directly and no, I’m not ordering anyone anything!
