Post your guns' war wounds
 

I've read stories here and on other sites / forums of people who've had their guns and gear damaged in the field. I thought it might be a fun idea if people could post pics of damage received to their guns and / or accessories from being shot, dropped, fallen on, etc and the story of how the damage happened.

I personally haven't had anything happen, but I'm curious as to what other people have experienced.

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Entire rear plate from the AUG mechbox broke out in loads of little pieces, never to be seen again, because the asshat I was gaming with decided to drop it repeatedly and deny it afterwards.

Other then that, I've never broken any of my weapons- badly.

Ive got a picture somewhere on my computer of a friend who got shot with my VSR and the BB went through the back of his plate carrier fabric and halfway through the foam plate!

GUNS war wounds, as in a weapon being shot and chipped, or dropped and broken, I think is what this thread is about.
I could be wrong though.

Emphasis added....:P

Droped my Tm M4 into water on a field... You know when your heart hurts and your like : Zomg 500$ in the water, that can't be good. :-|

I broken the stock off of my AK twice. And somebody shot the stock and the BB passed through the thin wood.

Was it fine after though?

AEG's are know to work after they've been in water.

i shot bodkins rifle
hahahhahah sorry man

Breakage in shipping! lol

Shame I don't have pics of my AK47 I rolled down an embankment with.

When I stopped, it was in 4 pieces.

JB weld and staples my friend!!

Damn right! The metal body I got for my AK had the attachment for adding an M4 stock instead of the normal tabs, so I manufactured a wooden plug that was snug enough to hold the stock and body together. I've beat the hell out of my AEG, she hasn't stopped working yet. Plus, scars on an AK are pretty much mandatory anyways.

Yup no damage ! Only mud, dust and water everywhere

dd

Before the game even started, I had my AKM leaning against my leg. Turned a bit to talk to someone, and it falls onto the grass. No big deal right, solid as hell AKM.

Wrong.

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Thats the second ICS bolt that I broke so far.

:(

not exactly a war wounds but here it goes

- broken TOP M60 carry handle, lifting it up from the box when it arrived new back in 96, there goes $1600 M60 with out a carry handle

- the same TOP M60 right hand side Bipod leg snapped when a collision with a tree occurred at wasaga beach, at that time a teammate was carrying it

- cracked CAR15 body when shot by poncho's accidental hot JAC
- cracked and broken systema 1st gen metal body, shot and fell down off a hill at wasaga beach
- chewed and scratched MP5 stock from a beaver at OPCT1

No pics yet, but my PTW has some surface rust already on the outer barrel and front sight, as well as plenty of scratches from moving through dense wooded areas. Some mags are showing a bit of orange tinge here and there too. EOTech has a crack running along the bottom right corner of the lens - no biggie, as you don't even notice it once you're focused on the sight picture.

What can I say, I use my equipment in all conditions and I don't really baby them while in use. Like my car, they're made to be used and abused under certain conditions and I try to maximize their potential. It's half the reason why I choose to use the gear that I do.

re-broke the plastic front end off my mp5k at humanity's hammer last weekend. Snagged it on a tree. More crazy glue.

TM M16. fell on it. not while gaming but at home...and I wasn't carrying it, it was on my bed. Talk about pissed off. Broke the upper receiver tabs.

Then I had this crazy dream that I was playing airsoft and my SIG 552 gas nozzle thing (above the barrel) broke off. I told my friend about it before going out gaming.
Next thing I know, after jumping off a log, strap breaks, SIG falls, gas nozzle thing breaks off.
I was genuinely freaked out at that point, and I was lucky that I told him the dream before the game, makes the story actually believable.

Other than those two, pock marks in my plastic m16 body from deet, that's where we learned not to spray around the guns.

The front end is anyway. It's going to have a nice glue scar.

Funny thing is that I almost never use this gun. Bought it, carried it around for a buncha games, lent it out once or twice but I've had maybe 3 kills with it. Yet it's my most problematic gun. Broken front end, dogshit stock battery, broken trigger return spring, crappy accuracy (I am replacing hopup and barrel)
But it's still way better than having to resort to a crappy little gbb. Nothing beats a sidearm with a ver 3 and a hicap.

Good damage stories, although I was really hoping to see more pics of actual damage incurred... But keep 'em coming. It's actually quite interesting to hear...

lol my RAS came off of my M4 at one of point at a game.

Other than that, plastic bodies can go to hell lol

metal front sight on my ak47 broke when it hit my bathroom sink, not exactly a war story but meh

this weekend at Humanity's Hammer, both mine and Ancorp's AK's broke down mysteriously, mine turned out to be a crossed wire and I had her back up and running IN THE RAIN..was very impressed to say the least :D

True. My G36c is now about 3% JB weld+ 3% epoxy (jb weld chips off some of my ABS parts) listed as ingredients lol.
Thank god chips and breaks are on non external showing parts. I guess I'm just rough with it. Example Yanked back the charging handle and it came apart. Broke the abs spacers both of them. Have to remember its not a real gun.

Anyhow I found long metal spacers for thin bolts and cut them to size and JB welded them. I used more jb weld than this pic shows to brace them.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6180/aaakp1.th.jpg

i took my famas apart last weekend and while i went to the store, my nephew decided my carry handle needed some huge pieces carved out. rounded the edges with a dremel my rds wobbles a bit though.

Nothing major for me, I baby my guns. My worst was taking the front grip off my G36 I dropped the gun and the front of the grip smashed into the bayonet lug, taking a small chunk off of it. My rearsight is also rusting pretty bad, had to pull it apart clean and oil it.

bad tornado
 

I dont know if this counts as war wounds, but here it is anyway. got to play with the new tornado gernades. I guess something broke on it when our teammate dropped it after he was hit. A few minutes later a fellow teammate and myself were very happy to have the opportunity to huck this bad boy at the enemy. he pulled the pin and bam blows up right in our face. I dont trust those tricksy things to much any more.

Yeah that was really weird. Only AK's in the squad, both go down within 5 mins. I still don't have mine up and running, but will in about 2-3 days.

That can happen if you don't reset the timer plug.

haven't hurt a gun. Overloaded a carry bag but that don't count

On FNG day here my sight on my AK came off. We got lucky and found the bastard when we were packing up.

G&G M14 fell off of the sling when my brother was carrying it at the LZ, plastic stock broke clean in two, took me 3 months to source a new one, found one on Ebay, got it a month later,put it all together now the fucker doesnt work

I shot my 2 or 3 year old kjw m9 on a hot summer day and the blowback chamber shot out the back of the plastic slide, almost hitting me in the face.

Bought a G3, and during shipping the stock broke into two pieces, where the plastic of the stock meets the metal part of it.

Some epoxy and bigger screws, and now I swear it is stonger than it was before, ( I think lol )

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Tackled by a zombie at Zombies!!! 1, blew up a perfectly good VLTOR battery stock/ battery.

Had a Battery detonate in a CA CQB stock while shoulderd.

Buddy had a P90 Battery go boom while firing.

Pole-vaulted over a FMU M16/c7, only damage was to my sternum, AEG was fine.

Just one huge thing for me, in my first year of airsoft... It was a cold november day, I had my Cadpat M4 RIS in a game... Went for a run, slipped on a patch of ice. I tried to bring the gun on my lap while falling down but I didn't do it fast enough and the stock made contact with the ice... before my body.

Got back up, started firing at tangos and it's only then that I realized the weird sound my gun made, as well as the lack of shoulder contact with the gun... The Cadpat painted metal body snapped, the stock screw made pressure on the spring guide and the back of the reinforced V2 mechbox broke.

Didn't take pictures of the exterior damage, but here is the before: http://k53.pbase.com/o6/42/561142/1/...RISCadpat.jpeg and after: http://i.pbase.com/g3/42/561142/3/53...edbyspring.jpg

Holy crap. It's like it's guts are pouring out.

I was shooting full auto with the stock folded, and a jagged piece of metal from the mechbox flew back into my face (full face masks are awesome). I took these pics when I got back.

http://www.pbase.com/shadowmatter/inbox

I am now sold on reinforced gearboxes. The spring guide was cracked, and shredded 4 piston teeth on the Systema gears. The gears were fine, the stock TM piston was a write off needless to say.

Cheers.

During a '04 winter game at FR, I slipped and felt. Unfortunately my aug landed on a rock. The rock didn't damage the body. However, the weight of the phantom kit and reciever torqued the body enough to crack the body the reciever. There is a nice 5-6 cm crack through the body.

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At the '07 May 2-4 Wolfpack game, I broke 2 aug fore grips.

This is what canada post managed to do during shipping.
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Holy shit! That's really a nasty break. How damaged was the box?

practically torn in half! But i think canada post thought i would'nt notice after a half assed tape job! lol

Mailman fall on it?

Did you claim and get insurance?

Yes but by the time everything was finished and over with it was about 3 mounths later:(

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Hit the door by accident and JG metal breaks.

I guess this doesn't count as damage because it wasn't my gear, but playing a game at Xtreme Tactics with some friends the other week, I used their guns and gear as I don't like to subject my stuff to the game of bumper cars the hyperactive first-timers tend to play.

Anyway, I'm aiming my G36C at a target about forty feet downrange when from five feet away, someone sticks their M15A4 around the corner and blind-fires. Put a couple BBs right through the objective lens of my red dot when I was looking down it, and cracked the eyepiece.. Made me pucker up a little bit.

WTB: Scope protector

Seeing as we're talking about damaged guns; my dad was picking up my BRAND NEW CA36 (Had it in the trunk...) and some jackass decides to run a red light and rear ends my dad's car!

I'd post pictures, but there's nothing left of the trunk. :(
So now I'm stuck with a custom G36 mechbox and no gun to put it in!

Insurance cover anything? I'm not familiar with the rules on insurance about items actually IN your car.

i'm fairly sure insurance would cover most items in your car... not too sure if the fact that it's a 'restricted item' makes any difference.

Never let moms EVER handle your weapons.....this is what happens.....
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Duely noted that the plastic was literally ripped and broken away from the screws...and she did this while I was at work tonight. Soooo I found me a nice SG1 stock that she is buying me tomorrow :D rofl...

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okay, why was she touching you'r gun?

I KNOW RIGHT!? She just comes into my room and "cleans" it...but her form of "clean" is destroy and lose all my parts and stuff....I'm 18, and I will have my room as it is...I don't need mommy to come in and "CLEAN" my airsoft guns...lol

Team mates gun I was working on after an indoor game, 350fps limit, stock TM gun.:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...t/DSC_0096.jpg

Not really a war wound, just a stripped piston, but its a result of highspeed gears, a systema turbo motor, and a large 9.6V battery:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nit/piston.jpg
A 300fps spring is not strong enough to return the piston fast enough before the gears try to grab the piston again.

Wow that is really weird to see. I mean they didn't even strip down evenly, it is just a huge notch ripped out of a few teeth lol...

They're only covering part of it... and by part of it I mean $100 because apparently $650 is too much for a toy gun.

Not mine, but makes me worried when I see these. TM Sig 552
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http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5...omediumim4.jpg

i had a bb shoot right through my scope flip up cover

Oh...My...God.....if that were my SiG with holes in it...I would be beyond pissed off! That scares me into never using mine again rofl!

My ak after being dropped in the grass. Not impressed with the G&P wood kit, very cheaply made. In fact im not impressed with any AK wood kits with maybe Real sword being the exception. My second and last wood-kit, sadly I will need to go with a plastic 74 style kit to have a furniture kit that can take the abuse. http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...l/P7060046.jpg

Get a woodkit from Cushak! Solid oak with a battery cutout.

Holy crap what the hell did she DO?

That's crazy, I've got a SIG too, with a hole in prety much the exact same spot!!! Except mine's on the other side

She "CLAIMS" she didn't touch it...but when I left for work, it was against the wall by my closet, and when I got home, it was on the otherside of the room on the floor just like in the pic, except with the stock clean off...The tab the connects the battery wires to the motor is actually broken, it doesn't clip anymore...so either I gotta get to clips or tape it...

Bah! Just go out an buy a hinge at C-Tire and go for the cheap folding stock.

Aka...if you looked to your left, you would observe that I live in Wisconsin...rofl However, I'm gonna try gluing it 1st before I try anything else.

Then go to Lowe's. :)

Man, this thread is turning out to be quite interesting. It sucks when our gear breaks, but shit happens, so might as well share it with others for their pleasure or horror, whichever way they see it.

Hey.

I'm in winnipeg.

I make optic protectors.

On topic:

... Only thing I've ever had is internal failures and GBB parts breaking... :( Poor TMP.

put too much pressure on the extendable butt of my mp5 and broke the locking mech. broke off and lost the rear sight too

tm m4a1 plastic receiver both tabs brake while running and gun flops open