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Product Information:
i bought this since the field i play at in Bourne, MA has a good sized cqb town area. and nothing beats it for its sheer point-and-shoot room clearing ability. it's very light, as maneuverable as any pistol and makes a good solid POP that propels a shower of BB's between 130-160 fps a short distance with a really wide spread. (yeah it's kinda hard to get a solid chrono number with 12 BB's leaving the barrel at once)
however there are some drawbacks to this gun:
upon getting this in the mail, you may find that you lack the proper equipment to test fire it right out of the box... you need to purchase either a standard paintball tank and get it charged with co2, then screw the provided filler needle to the top of it in order to charge the gas chamber part of the shells,
or buy a small hand charger that lets you charge the shells using standard co2 cartriges, they sell em here on GI but the drawback is you only get 5-7 good shell charges out of 1 co2 cartridge, thats literally only 5-7 individual shots and aint very money efficient.
my other pet peeve on these things are the BB shells, each shell has four channels that you load with 3 bb's apiece, making for 12bb's per shell and therefore, 12bb's per shot.
BUT... the BB's are held in those channels by rubber gaskets in a grove near the end of the shell, gaskets that get easily shot out of the shells along with the BB's...
ya see where im goin with this? and the next time you try to load that particular channel in the shell the BB's fall right out the shell, the barrel, and into the holster, and you wind up with not a great spread by the time you lose 3 out of 4 or all of the gaskets in that shell.
and the gasket replacement kit that comes with the gun only have like 8 replacements for the BB shells which i have long since used up, and now you wind up having to buy replacement gasket kits JUST for the shells, which leaves you with tons of gaskets for every other part of the gas chambers that take much longer to wear out so you never use those other gaskets... and those replacement gasket kits cost $6.00 plus shipping here and you only need one type of gasket from the kit...
despite my pet peeves about the gun and those stupid little gaskets (which i found a way to superglue those little bastards into the shells, win) the performance of this thing far outweighs the annoyances that come with it!
Pros:
12bb's per shot in a wide spread, or flip a switch on the left barrel down to fire both barrels at once for a huge horizontal spread, 24 bbs!
can literally clear a small room of noobs huddling together with one trigger pull
cool break-open action and the spent shells just slip right out with no resistance, and new ones glide right in if you buy spares. quick to reload with practice
very solid for a mostly plastic piece, ive dropped it twice and no breaks or cracks or nothin.
functional front and rear sights, even though aiming is purely optional on this gun XD
comes with it's own holster, which is really nice and holds the gun snug with velcro so it dont slip out. it also has shell holder loops, and i think it's Molle compatible from how long the straps are but i dont use molle so not 100% on that y'all...
Cons:
if you want to fire one barrel at a time, you need to flip the switch on the left barrel up to fire only the right side barrel, then flip it down to fire the left, can get confusing in the heat of battle if you're new to the gun but once you get it down to muscle memory the gun becomes much more useable in cqb.
the price, and not just for the gun, buying spare gas shells is expensive too, like $25 for just two extra shooters expensive...
the gaskets shoot out and then when theyre reloaded, the bbs fall out of the shells on my shell holder on my vest, and out of the shells in the gun too, collecting in the bottom of the holster and therefore not being shot out at my prey...
difficult to tell exactly how much gas you're putting in each shell, i think holding them down on the gas filler needle for about 3 seconds yields good shots without worrying about possibly blowing out a gasket inside the thing.
big, stupidly visible orange tip, i mean you could see that thing in pitch black around a corner so take your prey by surprise if you can
Rating:  [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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