Guest Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 (edited) About a month ago I bought a KSC M9 of this very forums from Hitman_no.2. When it arrived I eagerly opened the packaging to be greated by a nicely decorated green box, with "Heavy Weight" stickers and pictures of the gun. Inside the box is the usual styrofoam with gubbins, such as the manual, loading tool, hop adjusting tool and small bag of BBs. When taking the gun out of the box, I was pleasantly surprised at its weight. It's pretty heavy, weighing just under 1KG at 965g, with 290g of that being the mag. Unlike many pistols, it's balanced without the mag and with it. Another shocking thing was the plastic is very good quality, it's cold to the touch and it has no visible seam lines whatsoever on the slide and frame. The barrel however lets it down, it has very visible seam lines running down either side of it, although most of them are cleverly covered by the slide. The HW plastic is excellent, it's cold to the touch and has the look of metal. The trades are fairly accurate to my knowledge, although it says PP instead of PB and the grip trades are obviously not accurate as they contain the KSC logo. The slide trades on the right state: "U.S. 9mm m9-Armed Forces-65490" and then "PP" in an oval. It syas the same on the right side of the frame (minus the PP). On the right side of the slide it says: "ASSY 9346487-65490". The KSC logo is cleverly hidden under the takedown lever and the JASG logo is in tiny letters under the trigger bar. The decocker works and is also a safety once the pistol has been decocked. With the safety on the trigger is disabled and the slide locked. Unlike other KSC guns with decockers, the M9 fully decocks, with the hammer being let all the way down. Whereas the USPc for example only half decocks. Shooting results were not bad (i'll put a picture of the results up in a few minutes), 10 shots were fired with green at 5 metres and the groupings were about 1" - 1 1/2" roughly. I haven't got any gas consistancy figures on green or 134a yet, but I'll try and get that done soon. The recoil is very sluggish, which is a bit of a let down. In comparison, my G17 and USPc were very snappy when doing some target practice with the M9, all on green at the same temperature. Overall it's a very nice pistol, amazing finish, not bad groupings (nothing special though), it's just a bit of a let down with the recoil. It would make a fairly good sidearm and collectors piece alike. I'd give this about a 8.5/9 out of 10. It's only real let down is the recoil. I'll post pics shortly. Pics!: As you can see, no seams! Barrel seams Shooting results More: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a90/ben_w/M9Magmarkings.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a90/ben_w/M9andmag2.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a90/ben_w/M9andmag.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a90/ben_w...agmarkings2.jpg Edited July 9, 2006 by Guest Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Onechance Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Have you been running her on green? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Yep, the accuracy test was with green too. I haven't used her that much though (ran out of gas for a while) so i can't comment on the long term use of it. Although it doesn't seem like it'd do any damage from what I've seen so far. The recoil is fairly slow and sluggish even on green, compared to the fast and violent recoil my USPc and G17 have. So I can't really see it doing any slide or frame damage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Krazy L Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 the KSC M9 HW is a great gun. only 3 upgrades are done by my shop to really make it the best scirmish gun out there... trigger spring is replaced new inner barrel and new recoil spring. after these upgrades the guns really is hard to beat. i have upgraded around 4 for team members and players. my father even uses one with his M249 MKII. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Where'd you get the recoil spring and who's it made by? I'd like to get my hands on one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
willnyc Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Is this the same as the hardkick version? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Is this the same as the hardkick version? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Classicx Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 anyone in the USA have this? Do they paint the slide orange or do they attack the orange plastic on the tip of the barrel? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Krazy L Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 mine from redwolf just had orange paint on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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