Crosman 'Panther Arms' DPMS SBR M4 review

I do know and it gets shoved their regularly. 

Unfortunately the stock is bespoke to the gun and not a standard AR buffer tube, everything else is standard AR furniture and freely interchangeable. I've got to make a flat sling ring to go between the stock and the frame for my single point harness to attach to. The stock in itself is far better than I thought that it would be, very solidly locks into position and feels well joined to the gun, I actually quite like it now, which is a shock because it's one of the reasons that I was so hesitant about getting one in the first place.

Yeah, just remember to put the right one in (labelled '1st', if memory serves me correctly). I'm glad your loving it, they're a great gun.

Evening all

I received my DPMS SBR a couple of days ago and am posting a general overview opinion of my initial impressions. I wont be doing a review as HeadHunter has already nailed it in his within this subsection.

As many on here are aware, I have a pretty decent collection of replica guns. The 'AR' style has never really tickeled my fancy, mainly because when a package arrives at the door and I show the Mrs a nice WW2 replica she tends to look the other way. Over the past year or so though, she has essentially given up with trying to moderate my purchases. Im very proud of that achievement, as I no longer fear at the postman knocking when shes home. 6-12 months ago I would never have got away with brandishing a rifle that is all over the news from the US every few weeks.

So blocker aside, this rifle rocked up at the door 2 days ago and was unfortunetly missing a piece from the order. The seller has pure ignored me since so I'm getting bugger all back, but based on what I've receicved I just dont care.

This rifle on opening the box gave me excitment I've not felt since being a kid. It's a proper 'army soldier man' gun as my 5 year old boy would say. The materials and build are superb, but it comes to life for me when customising. I've accrued a lot of toys over the years, and a lot of them of 20mm weaver setup so I've been able to mess about with this one to my hearts content. I still want a proper laser with a pressure plate but I've played with a lot of the stuff I have that fits and it just a joy to mess with.

I've not been able to performance test this yet, but in all honesty it could spit the BBs over a 10cm spread at 5m and I'd still love it.

I've currently got the red dot fitted it came with (not the best so open to suggestions), supplied flip ups and a bipod I had spare. Got a mock silencer on the way but really want to get a laser with pressure pad on it just for the fun of it.

This thing is all about fun, and it's tickled me like no other replica I've bought so far





If you get chance to buy one cheap, take it if it's your cup of tea!

I totally understand the 'joy' of ownership when it comes to the DPMS, I really do ! It's not until you've got one in your hands that you really appreciate it and to think that I ummed & arghed over getting one for so long, I should've just stopped procrastinating and just bought one when they first came out. It's just so solid, so well made and absolutely gorgeous.

The amount of customisation that any owner can do to their DPMS is amazing and makes it such a personal gun in my opinion, what with red dots, holographics, scopes, lasers, torches, foregrips, bipods, magwell grips, pistol grips and that's even before you start to think about the sling options (1 point, 2 point or even 3 point slings) and the variety of positions that you can attach them to.

The AR is incredibly versatile platform and allows the owner to make their gun so uniquely specific to them, their needs and their shooting style, it's a keeper for me and makes every other replica rifle just seem so, well.....meh ! by comparison.

In a world of replicas, where straight out of the box, everything seems the same, it's great to have the potential to make each gun so very different, I've striven to make all of my handgun replicas unique to me, different from the bog standard, straight out of the box versions and this gun makes that so very easy to do.

Love mine, wouldn't sell it, lots of fun, what more could you ever want ?

(you just wait till you get a good chance to throw some BBs down range with it, you think you like it now ! Just be prepared to fall 'head over heels' in love with it, lol)

Crosman made the DPMS but have since replaced it with the newer R1 version, which is identical internally but just in a different set of clothes. They are expensive (£295-ish) but if you look around you can pick one up 2nd hand DPMS for around the £150-£180 and there's nothing better than giving a good home to a pre-loved gun that's just collecting dust some where.

Don't make the same mistake I made and over think it, set a price target (eg. £150) and keep an eye out for one and jump at it with both feet when it comes along, I guarantee that you won't regret it