AGD Europe Emag eXtreme

aka- European non C&C X-mag.

I manage to pick up markers from all over the place.. especially the rare ones.  Now a days, all the popular sites like PBNation will ensure that you either miss the marker (because some vulture jumps on it before you), or you will pay a lot of $$.  I don’t like either of those options, so I had to find more creative ways to grab interesting markers. 

The aurora, for example, I got off e-bay when a friend let me know it was miss-listed.  The camo half block I worked out a trade with the Racegun rep directly.  The Westwood’s I also contacted the owners directly and said “when you’re selling, let me know.” The zebra one ended up coming from the UK.  In fact, once I bought that one I started buying more from there… if you can get a decent shipping rate you can almost always get great prices since there is much less demand than here in the US (back in ~2010).  So I got the Eclipse mag from there, the Eclipse cocker from there, and now.. this X-mag.

I have always been intrigued with X-mags, and they came in basically 3 flavors: the C&C version, the non C&C version, and Shocktech’s SFL version.  The SFL is the rarest, and I would guess the non C&C is the second, since it was never released in the US (AGDE had a non compete clause as part of their licensing terms).  Mine is a very early example of a non C&C X-mag, which I had actually been searching a while for.  More honestly, I bought an x-mag from a guy in the UK last year but it turned out that he didn’t send it, withdrew the money from paypal, etc.  I managed to recover my funds 6 months after the fact through an online prosecution tool that Her Majesty nicely provides, but it was a hassle.  Soooo, 8 months later I decided to look for another one.

This was owned by a former member of Storm, Air Gun Design Europe’s factory team.  The thing I love about x-mags is the interchangeable breach.  You can swap from vertical to warp feed in like a minute… its just cool as hell.  The module is then retained by the barrel.  Other cool features of the x-mag are the fact that it has an Anti Chop Eye, and this particular one also has a level 10 kit install, which is basically an anti chop bolt system that is functionally the same as the wonderful JAM bolt on all my cockers.  You can also tell it is an early model because it has an on/off switch on the bottom of the battery pack (besides the fact that it has an emag valve with a serial # in the one thousands).  Later they went on and used a pin.

What don’t I like about this gun?  Well, the fact that it doesn’t take standard wrap around grips is lame.  The battery is too big (they had to use a large solenoid).  Cool things?  Besides the modules, ACE, and Level 10 bolt, I like the electronic and physical safeties.  I always thought it was retarded how on e-blades you turned the gun off by PULLING THE TRIGGER!??!  That is just stupid design.  Turn off = pull trigger.  Good way to shoot people in the staging zone.  Racegun got it better (green vs red lights for safety, you don’t have to turn the gun off), and AGD got it best.  I’ll have to play with it more and report back though.

Oh yea, I also got a warp feed as part of the deal – and something from AGD Europe call the ‘X-Power’ module.  This and a warp interface cable allow me to trigger the warp every time the trigger is pulled, and power it off the Xmag batter.  Speaking of, I had to replace the stock 650 mAH NiCAD one that crapped out on me with a 1000 mAH NiCAD one.  More power!  Also lately it is sporting XMOD 1.8 ramping software.  Very slick.