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Does anyone on this forum have enough familiarity or experience with full auto BB guns to make a recommendation? I have none.

Our daughter in PA is looking to buy one for a present and asked me for my opinion. So I'm inquiring here, in addition to searching and reading online.

I have shot this and it was a blast! 

https://www.umarexusa.com/beretta-m92-a1-177-black

Not sure about reliability, but it ran fine the day I shot it.  Make sure you have a LOT of BBs and CO2 - you'll burn through it faster than you think. 

 

I had one as a kid back in the late 80's before NJ AWB went into effect.

Wouldn't recommend it (I doubt it's still produced) as it was basically a pressure-vessel with a valve, grip and barrel attached.  Fill with BB's, attach air compressor hose, pull "trigger" (really opened a valve to pressurize the chamber) and it started spitting BB's out the barrel.

A useful piece of advice I CAN offer - if what you end up with has a "magazine" that is essentially just a tank to pour bb's into, add a pinch of dry graphite powder for lube.

Also, just had this memory - I think I had grown bored with the bb gun and it was shelved.

Then I saw predator and got inspired, so I got dad's portable air tank, rigged it up as a backpack with some straps and hit the woods:

 

1 hour ago, DirtyDigz said:

Wouldn't recommend it (I doubt it's still produced) as it was basically a pressure-vessel with a valve, grip and barrel attached.  Fill with BB's, attach air compressor hose, pull "trigger" (really opened a valve to pressurize the chamber) and it started spitting BB's out the barrel.

You probably had a LARC M19 Annihilator! Those used Freon cannisters. Things have come a long way since then. 

12 minutes ago, Grapeshot said:

You probably had a LARC M19 Annihilator! Those used Freon cannisters. Things have come a long way since then. 

Yeah, I think that's it, but dad machined an NPT fitting onto it so we could use compressed air instead of freon.

Edit - just like this:
 

 

Rifle or pistol? 

 

Real bbs? Or airsoft?

The umarex ones are pretty good. My friend in PA had a umarex MP4O that was awesome.

57 minutes ago, sgtdave4321 said:

The umarex ones are pretty good. My friend in PA had a umarex MP4O that was awesome.

There is a YouTube video of the Umarex MP 40. I held one at a shop in NY and if I see one up there again I'm buying it.

Thanks guys. Keep the info coming. As it happens, I went to the Umarex website and up popped their MP5 PDW. It's semi-auto, but that was OK with me. So I ordered the last one. (Shipped to PA of course.) I don't need full auto. But damn that's a bargain compared to the SP5-K. And it's just for fun.

If my moniker wasn't 45Doll, it would have been HKDoll.

This one looks like fun.   AR-like, claims 1400 BBs per minute (but mags only hold 25) at 430 fps, and many AR parts can be swapped onto the platform.  $180.

Crossman full auto BB rifle

 

Maybe once I move out of NJ...