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Airsoft Core |
By Zerenova
Published: February 24, 2004
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Well, I said I'd get a review of this sooner or later, and it's way later, so here goes.
Most every review starts wt the first day of recieiving the gun, being ecstatic ripping off the wrapping, and pulling out the fine craftmanship we know as an airsoft pistol. I had none of that. My dad picked me up from school, handed me a pistol, and said he opened it to check it. Kills the suspense, eh? Well, I did notice the weight when he handed it to me. Takingout the clip and slapping it back in, I was a bit ecstatic at that, considering it was my first Airsoft gun. I bought the Deluxe Edition from Airsoft Atlanta, but I'll talk about the extras later.
So, let's get down and dirty on this little piece of Walther replication. So, as I stated above, it's weighted. The magazine has about 1/3 of the overall weight, and there is a secondary weight stored in the back of the grip (one the oval looking bulge). Other than that, it's pretty light (if you takethe weight and mag out, it weighs under half a pound). But, the plastic used is ABS, very durable, and very appealing looking. It is a nice flat black that isn't reflective, but doesn't look quite metal. Much better than the infamous UHC gloss (despite this is an HFC, it's the only corollary I could make). The magazine is all metal, and the barrel is as well. The spring guide and mechanism is as well, and the weight (duh). Other than that, it is all plastic.
Upon inspecting the inside of the gun, I noticed it is rather simplistic, as all HFC pistols are. So, if ever you needed to clean it or fix it, it would be a breeze, but I'll get to that later. Most of the works of the gun are stored in the slide, and are securely held there. Popping the slide off of the rail it sits in is how you take it apart after popping out the rods, and it is relatively simple. It has slide lock, which locks when there is one BB left and when there is none (so you don't dry fire). The cocking is smooth and quick, with a nice jolt when you actually release the slide and fire it. Definitely an aesthetic gun. The safety is a bit odd. It's a small circle knoc you turn on the right side of the gun, and in my experiences, it's too small to be efffective, and hard as hell to turn into the sfaety position. The small rectangle above the trigger pulls down like the real P99, but I've yet to find a use for it, besides authenticity. A nice touch is the drilled hole in the back of the slide on the smal metal plate, and although it's nice to see, it's more of a nuisance because it keeps falling out.
Also, I must have dropped my gun over 10 times, and from considerable distances, and it still looks and shoots just as good as the day I got it (shooting below). Very sturdy build, and strong. Also, it has a small rail under the barrel, but it fits hardly any accessories.
So, enough of how it looks, let's get to how it shoots. I have no chronograph, but I've shot (and been shot) by it many times, and wasted some pop cans, so I'll give my honest opinion. With .12s, it has one hell of a bite (most likely 205 fps), but with .20s, it has a harder hit, but moves slower (kinda obvious, but has a major ouch factor). When firing at an empty can, the .12s actually threw the can farther than the .20s did, but they dented it less. The .20s did more damage, but didn't move it as much. Pictures below. In the actual sense of using the gun, it stacks up to about the power of a UHC M9 with far less range. As for the range, with .12s, it's about 50-70 feet. With .20s, it's about 30-50. This gun is not accurate. It has a lob with .20s that make it arc slightly, and some upward aiming is required. .12s will fly all over the place when shot (I couldn't hit a 11x8.5 inch paper from 15 feet away), and should only be used in the situation you runout of .20s. If you do manage to shoot your target with a .12, they'll feel it hard. In reality, you'll probably shoot everything around them and not them at all. With .20s, I can hit a an about 50 feet out if I lob it. Also, the .12s are severely effected by wind. Even a slight breeze, and it'll go 6 feet either way. Below I have target shoots with .12s and .20s.
The maagzine holds about 16 rounds and is speed load, so that's a plus. It's also very sturdy, and one of the best maagzines I've ever used. Great design, feel, and durability. Maybe this is a stupid section to add, but I think the magazine is a big part of the gun (the magazines are terrible on my DD .44 and KTC MP5A6, which is why I love using my HFC P99 because it is so easy to use). But, there is one problem with the magazine. Well, it's not so much the maagzine as how it is the gun accesses it. When you pull down the slide (which is open ejection port), you can see a small piece slide back into the top of the magazine. As you let the magazine fly up, the BB is pulled up a small tube into the barrel. If you have the gun aimed down or slowly raise the slide back up, the BB will fall out of the chamber and lay in the spaces of the gun, dry firing. Once on BB is out of sync, the next one will follow, until you take out the mag, dry fire it once or twice, and re-insert it. But, after about a weeks use, I never had this problem again. I just had to get used to it. Once I would hold it towards the sky, cock the lisde back, then let go and let it lock up by itself, it worked like a charm. But, if you try and guide it up slowly with your hand for a stealth cock, good luck, you'll have a dry fire.
So, I think I've wrapped everything up nice and dandy with the gun, so let's get to the extras in this Deluxe Package. It came with a plastic carrying case which had a foam interior. Not the best, but servies it's purpose quite well. It also came with a Jieke rail system, HFC mock suppressor (not the HFC Accurate Silencer Set, but a really shitty add-on). The suppressors is worthless. It's made of plastics which are lower quality than that of a Barbie doll, and it screws onto an orange tip that slides into the plastic barrel outer covering. The silencer is never straight on the screwing, and throws off the shot more than it does help. It also makes the shot sound hollow. Never ever use it. For a photo shot to make it look good, sure, in battle, never. The rail system is a bitch to screw together when you get it, but it slides on and off once assembled. It's a cheap plastic, and can't be used while you have a front sight on (which reminds me, it comes with two different interchangeable front front sights. A black one with a white dot and a neon). On the top goes the mock-red dot sight, and the bottom goes the laser. The mock red-dot scope (Like a Daisy Red-Dot Sight that you find at Wal-Mart) is just a piece of plastic with a highly reflective plastic crosshair put in the clear plastic. No adjustment, no use, and it is just a crappy piece of plastic. The laser is a laser pointer that is put on by one fo two different clamps that hook on the bottom of the Jieke rail system. Use the smaller set of clamps, as the bigger ones conflict with the trigger guard. But, it uses a small pad that you tuck under a nylon strap that you put on the grip. This nylon strap unraveled and was worthless to me in the first day. The pad hardly ever turns on the laser, and has faulty wiring. Also, you cannot adjust it, so it's off in every direction. You can never aim with it. And, the entire deluxe setup is too bulky to aim with all the faulty equipment on it. All in all, the deluxe package is worthless.
To conclude this little review, I'll go over the ups and downs. Great design, great looks, good weight, great magazine and is sturdily built. Not the best shooter, clunky slide/BB loading utility, worthless "deluxe" set. Best for CQB, and not the longer ranges. If you run out of ammo on a primary, and need a gun to get through util you can clip in that extra mag or reload it, this gun will work, but from far distances (45+ feet), don't expect anything outta this gun. Around corners, indoors, and backyard wars are great for this gun, but not much else. Great wall-hangar, and very slick design.
(I'm writing this at night, and I'll get photos of the shot groupings, gun, and everything else soon. Don't worry, I'll get them).
Zeronova
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