Must be my lucky day, found two rapidstrike non XD at TRU midValley and totally bought them without hesitation lol.

Shipment has arrived!
Slapped the worker's Pump grip and some tacticool attachments. Love this lol but it did add some substantial weight to the blaster. And unnecessarily long.
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Foldable stock is kewl, though.

Anddd the long awauted Recon Mk II!
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To my surprised, I actually got the revised batch of Mk 2 that accepts 10 rounds banana and 18 rounds etc mags.

The greatest improvement of the Mk 2 over the Retaliator is definitely the tapered breech.
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The Mk2 is a great improvement over the Retaliator. It primes extremely smooth, priming the 5kg OMW spring on the Mk 2 is as light and smooth as priming a stock spring Retaliator! I am guessing the tapered breech has contributed to that, and perhaps a better designed shell/internals.

And then I tried to do the same on my Retaliator OMW Breech. And it works too, priming are much smoother, and it doesn't damage the tail of the dart anymore!
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Some are curious, how does the V-shape tapering prevents damage to the dart and provide a smoother priming.
I'll explain briefly in the next post.

Ace Hardware.
Yeah. Where else lol.

Delivery time are dependent on the type of service you or the agent use.
I think I've waited for around 2 weeks also.

Bought these battery size converter.

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