What’s it like to use? Gassing up the magazine is a doddle, however as with all WA mags you must remember to pull down the tab on the back of the magazine before gassing or it will all spray out the top of the mag. Loading the mag must be done by holding down the follower and putting the BBs in by hand, there is no speed loading tool supplied such as the ones found with the SV and Para Ordnance series. Care must be taken to ensure all the BBs fall into a double stack formation as otherwise the gun may jam.
Once the slide has been racked you can either fire away or use the de-cocker to drop the hammer without the gun firing leaving a round in the chamber. The gun may then be fired by either manually cocking the hammer and then firing (this gives a light and short trigger pull) or pulling the trigger the full way which cocks and fires the hammer in one go (long and heavy trigger pull). Using Abbey Predator gas at house temp the slide cycles very fast, crisper than my old standard KSC Glock 19 did on the same gas. It will fire as fast as you can pull the trigger. There is almost no recoil to speak of, however I do not find this to effects the firing experience as you don’t really expect much from such a small gun. You can get about 2 and a half magazines worth of BBs from one fill of gas. On the range The grouping was about 2 ½ inches at 8 meters, not bad for such a small gun, however, lining up the sights as you would a normal pistol you end up shooting about an inch low over short ranges, you must put the bottom of the white dot level with the half circle shaped white marking on the rear sight to shoot perfectly straight.
To adjust the hop up use the thinnest allen key provided and insert it into the grub screw in the bottom of the chamber, holding the slide so that the barrel is pointing away from you turning the grub screw clockwise will increase hop and anti clockwise will decrease hop. The hop up is very sensitive on this pistol and turning it only ¾ of a full turn caused the gun to jam.
The site chrono measured 230-260fps with a 0.2g bb (about 0.6-0.8 joules) amazingly good for such a cold day. After being left in my SAAV (South African assault vest) for most of the day I finally had to pull it out. It emptied the magazine straight off no trouble and locked back on the last shot, fairly impressive. It performed better than any other gas gun on that day. Range with the hop properly adjusted was extremely good, slightly less than that of my upgraded G3 variant (305-315fps with a 0.2g).
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