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Airsoft Core |
By Lemmypoo
Published: December 6, 2004
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Hooray! It finally came in the mail, it was Christmas again today! I ordered my new toy from www.precisionairsoft.com and it arrived 3 days after payment, it also had some wadded up newspaper from Hong Kong, interesting 'reading' material. I also ordered an AK hi-cap, a battery discharger, and three bags of airsoft elite .25s. And of course I ordered the Maruzen CA 870.
I was surprised with how small the box was, expecting it to be much larger. When I lifted off the lid I was greeted by a classic-looking sawed off shotgun. I lifted it out of the box and was astounded with how heavy it was. I estimate it weighs around 2000 grams. It also felt solid as a rock, no shakes or rattles outside of the solid metal sling mounts. The gun is in fact made entirely out of carbon fiber and in fact the only ABS parts I can see is the clip, which I will get into later, and the shell tube underneath the pump action. There were a few metal parts on the gun, they are as follows: trigger, safety, sling mounts, and the two rods that connect the pump action to the piston. The wooden grips feel totally real, like a dense hard wood.
The gun's internals are almost all metal. When fired the gun makes a nice solid metallic clack. No plastic slamming together, just metal. Doesn't sound anything like a gun shot which is disappointing considering how realistic this replica is, but it sounds solid. The pump action however sounds entirely real and very intimidating, the solid clack-clack will send even the AK's cocking handle running home for mommy.
The clip is a double-edged sword, it is nasty plastic, but it is also very small, holds a lot of ammo, has a damn cool loading tool and will not spray ammo period. The loading tool has to be used twice because it only holds 20 rounds. This is a nice feature because it makes the loading rod smaller. The clip also holds the loading rod in place making loading a pleasure. The clip is also realistic in that one can buy clips for there 870 that only hold a few shells, but they do exist.
Now onto performance! The poor-man's chrono says it fires about 300 FPS. And accuracy is superb. It will only fire one pellet but this is intended as a reliable sidearm not as a primary CQB companion. The hop-up is non-adjustable as far as I know but it fires .2s fine.
A point of concern is that the inner barrel is almost at the edge of the outer barrel and has seems vulnerable to the elements. But it shouldn't be an issue.
I am going to combat test it tomorrow and will give some post game results, but for now this is all we have to drool over.
Pros:
-All fiber glass construction gives it amazing durability
-All metal internal construction
-Nice ROF
-Superb Reliability
-Good accuracy
-Good range
-Nice loading system
-Very reasonably priced at 100 bucks or so.
Cons:
-Inner barrel seems like an area of concern
-Magazine is ABS
I give it a 4/5 and hope to use this until I am too old to airsoft.
- Lemmypoo |
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