First impressions are very good. The box is nicely decorated and seems quite tough. There are a set of instructions with it that I can only describe as brilliant. By far the best I have ever seen with a gun, let alone a budget one.
The gun itself weighs in at 990gm and feels really good in your hand. The only criticism I have about the feel is that, as the grip safety is a molded, non-functioning piece, it feels strange in the outer (safe) position while firing. The G&G badged grips are a little plasticy, but still feel OK and look really good. If I ever do replace them, I'll try to move the badges over to the new ones.
The only visible seam is on the hammer and the rest of the gun is very well finished. The two tone finish to the slide is very crisply done with nice clean edges. The Xtreme 45 badge on the left hand side of the slide is a little too obvious for me, so I may polish that off as it's only painted on. I've seen a picture of this done and it looks good.
The trigger looks like it is double action, but it's not. True 1911 style cocked and locked carry needed here. So, it's good that the safety is firm and a decent size. The safety doesn't prevent the hammer being moved to the cocked position, but stops it from dropping again by disconnecting the trigger mech. There's a small red dot and the letter F visible when the safety is off.
Trigger pull is very smooth, so nice and consistent shots are easily achieved.
To prepare it for firing, you have to insert a 12gm CO2 cartridge in the mag and then wind a small wheel under the cartridge which pushes it upwards to break the seal. When fully tightened, there doesn't seem to be any leakage at all. After that, just pull down the BB follower, pour in 16 BBs, then hit the release pin on the bottom of the mag. When you push the mag into the gun, it needs to be pushed very firmly in, as the gas pushes back against the mag. This also gives a really cool gas-ejection effect when you are ready to reload.
The action doesn't fully cycle when you cock it, only moving back 26mm. This is supposed to be to reduce the strain on the gun while firing at high fps. The hop adjustment is via a small grub screw on top of the barrel which is accessed with the slide locked back.
My chrono is a small barrel mounted one, so getting it lined up on the front of a pistol was fun, but when managed, the results were very interesting:
462 (2 BBs)
481
392
366 (2 BBs)
425
423
424
430
392
423
367
409
395
317
After that first mag, things settled down to between 320 and 350, so it probably could be skirmished if you either emptied 1 mag to bring the pressure down a bit, or were at a site with a higher fps/minimum range rule. I got 6 mags out of the first cartridge.
Considering that there is only what they describe as "mock blow back" it is really crisp. Trigger response is just what you would expect from a GBB, but the cycling time is amazing. My guess is that there is a very strong recoil spring in there, in addition to the shorter than normal travel.
What you don't expect is the sound. It sounds like an airgun and not an airsoft gun. Also, I didn't think that dead-heading roses at 8m would be possible with a pistol. The sights were pretty much spot on out of the box, though I don't tend to use the front sight with a pistol anyway. Having said that, with the pistol rested, I was hitting the 4cm target on my revolving target stand, again at 8m, with almost every shot. It was also taking lumps out of the bark of the tree next to the target when I missed!
In conclusion, it's not really a practical skirmishing weapon for everyone's use. But, if you can use a pistol over 350 fps, or your site would accept it if you run the pressure down a little then I'd highly recommend one.
The gun itself weighs in at 990gm and feels really good in your hand. The only criticism I have about the feel is that, as the grip safety is a molded, non-functioning piece, it feels strange in the outer (safe) position while firing. The G&G badged grips are a little plasticy, but still feel OK and look really good. If I ever do replace them, I'll try to move the badges over to the new ones.
The only visible seam is on the hammer and the rest of the gun is very well finished. The two tone finish to the slide is very crisply done with nice clean edges. The Xtreme 45 badge on the left hand side of the slide is a little too obvious for me, so I may polish that off as it's only painted on. I've seen a picture of this done and it looks good.
The trigger looks like it is double action, but it's not. True 1911 style cocked and locked carry needed here. So, it's good that the safety is firm and a decent size. The safety doesn't prevent the hammer being moved to the cocked position, but stops it from dropping again by disconnecting the trigger mech. There's a small red dot and the letter F visible when the safety is off.
Trigger pull is very smooth, so nice and consistent shots are easily achieved.
To prepare it for firing, you have to insert a 12gm CO2 cartridge in the mag and then wind a small wheel under the cartridge which pushes it upwards to break the seal. When fully tightened, there doesn't seem to be any leakage at all. After that, just pull down the BB follower, pour in 16 BBs, then hit the release pin on the bottom of the mag. When you push the mag into the gun, it needs to be pushed very firmly in, as the gas pushes back against the mag. This also gives a really cool gas-ejection effect when you are ready to reload.
The action doesn't fully cycle when you cock it, only moving back 26mm. This is supposed to be to reduce the strain on the gun while firing at high fps. The hop adjustment is via a small grub screw on top of the barrel which is accessed with the slide locked back.
My chrono is a small barrel mounted one, so getting it lined up on the front of a pistol was fun, but when managed, the results were very interesting:
462 (2 BBs)
481
392
366 (2 BBs)
425
423
424
430
392
423
367
409
395
317
After that first mag, things settled down to between 320 and 350, so it probably could be skirmished if you either emptied 1 mag to bring the pressure down a bit, or were at a site with a higher fps/minimum range rule. I got 6 mags out of the first cartridge.
Considering that there is only what they describe as "mock blow back" it is really crisp. Trigger response is just what you would expect from a GBB, but the cycling time is amazing. My guess is that there is a very strong recoil spring in there, in addition to the shorter than normal travel.
What you don't expect is the sound. It sounds like an airgun and not an airsoft gun. Also, I didn't think that dead-heading roses at 8m would be possible with a pistol. The sights were pretty much spot on out of the box, though I don't tend to use the front sight with a pistol anyway. Having said that, with the pistol rested, I was hitting the 4cm target on my revolving target stand, again at 8m, with almost every shot. It was also taking lumps out of the bark of the tree next to the target when I missed!
In conclusion, it's not really a practical skirmishing weapon for everyone's use. But, if you can use a pistol over 350 fps, or your site would accept it if you run the pressure down a little then I'd highly recommend one.
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