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WE MEU 1911 GBB Airsoft Pistol (Black)
[04381 / GP-WE-047 / GBB-412S-PKG]		 $116.22
by Z STOOTS Date Added: Wednesday 10 September, 2014
Product Information:
Purchased this expecting a reliable side arm due to good reviews and was very disappointed.

-After about a day of use the slide began to seize so badly that I could not fire more than 3 or 4 shots without the gun failing.

++The problem was that a rubber gasket had been dislodged from its correct place inside the receiver somehow and was jamming the slide. I took it apart and fixed it and the gun worked fine for a few days

-Next the the inner barrel broke away from the outer barrel inside the slide and this obviously causes the gun to jam after every shot naturally rendering it unusable.
++The problem here is poor design.
The piece that holds the inner barrel to the outer barrel is made of a brittle plastic that appears to have shattered under normal use (When I took the gun apart to find out why it was jamming little plastic bits fell out of it and the screw that holds it in was floating around.) The piece (WE 1911 / Hi-capa Series Airsoft GBB Pistol Part #71 - Hopup Part #71) was missing so you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what happened here. I did not drop it or handle it roughly. I was using it normally and eventually it seized. I unjammed it and it seized again as a result of this problem.

When it was working I noticed that it did not perform well at all under sustained fire. Firing more than a clip successively would render the gun useless until it rested (warmed up a bit) as the firing pin would stick and expel all of the gas from your magazine from one pull of the trigger. This problem I could overlook and just fired more conservatively if the gun hadn't completely failed on me due to a 10 cent piece of plastic that could have been made of metal for a few extra bucks.


Overall it was nice while it worked. It kicked hard and fired accurately, while it worked.
So if you're looking for a gun you can have some fun with and open up shooting at cans or whatever, this is definitely not the gun for you.
Also if you're looking for a gun that won't fall apart this probably isn't the gun for you either.

Pros:
Accurate
Kicks hard
Metal
*This section requires 30 characters too bad there aren't enough good things to say about this gun.*

Cons:
Not metal where it counts so it broke.
Firing pin sticks and expels all the gas from your mags from 1 shot after extended use
The weapons basically disintegrates after about a week.
Leaky mags that also fall apart (Bottom falls out)

Rating: 1 of 5 Stars! [1 of 5 Stars!]
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