Airsoft Action - January 2021

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BOLT AIRSOFT B4 PDW
this is exactly what they were designed for in their
“real steel” form! The term “PDW” actually fully
describes the military role the weapon was conceived
for, that of a compact yet effective (in terms of both
performance and accuracy) platform that can be easily
and discreetly carried by rear echelon personnel, not
as combat troops expected to regularly engage the
enemy, but as support elements who may need to
defend themselves in an actively hostile environment.
In this situation it’s all about an effective platform that
is easy to use and deploy, but which
provides sufficient firepower to
suppress an enemy until the
cavalry can arrive! Although
originally
current crop of “skeleton stock” variants leaves me
personally a little cold for a couple of major reasons.
First up there’s the physical size thing that I mentioned
earlier; they’re just TOO darn short for an old ape
like me! As I’m also all about properly aimed shots, I
also find that most of the current PDW stocks don’t
allow me to get a proper cheek-weld when lining up
iron sights. Again, I’m not a huge fan of optics on
something that’s designed to be small, compact and
deployable from concealment…
But the biggy for me - and again it’s a personal
thing I guess - is that I like to be able to fit a battery
at the start of a gameday or Op and have it last the
duration of the event and the fact is, that many
sliding stock PDWs have an absolutely TINY battery
compartment! That’s not so much of a problem
if you’re running short, fast games at a CQB site
where you can simply change out batteries in
downtime between games but if you’re playing the
part of a “CP Detail” in a longer Op (where the
PDW SHOULD be ideal), a small, limited-life
battery is not what you want!
Over the years I’ve tried
to find different
designed for a military
role, due to their
compact nature, light
weight, ease of operation
and control and their
close-range effectiveness,
PDWs are also now
popular with special
forces, tactical police units
and, more recently, PMCs
and bodyguards.
In airsoft form, where our engagement distances
are necessarily “danger close”, an SBR or PDW seems
to me to be the perfect choice for an AEG for the very
same reasons that it’s used in earnest, however, the
solutions to this
problem but as with
optics, I don’t like a PEQ-box
on a PDW for obvious reasons; I want it
small, pared to the bone effective for a
specific role - and that’s why the BOLT B4
PDW is one of the models that sings to
me.
KINETIC KOOL
Okay, so I will admit to being a big fan of BOLT, as
their AEGs are designed with the Bolt Recoil Shock
System, or BRSS, at the very heart of things. This is
the core around which other things revolve! The BRSS
is “Stage One” of any BOLT AEG design and with my
old mate Tomy Lee’s knowledge, the development
team at BOLT Airsoft have created a powerful recoil
system which uses an outstanding design, utilising
kinetic energy produced by the piston’s movement,
transferred to a recoil weight in the stock tube which
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