Airsoft Action - January 2021

armoury
UMAREX KWA HECKLER & KOCH HK45
red dot sight to the top slide, I began making single
shot eliminations, or achieving seemingly difficult
shots across the arena and receiving incredulous
remarks or questions of exactly what I had done to
the gun to facilitate this. Using 0.28g BLS ammunition
and having a lot of practise with pistols, was my
answer, although a large portion of the credit should
surely reside with the consistency of the action and
hop unit of the HK45 itself.
Occasionally leaky or unreliable magazines aside
(and my own inadvertent dropping of them onto the
concrete due to my long fingers or the sheer recoil
impulse actuating the magazine release), there are no
doubt far worse purchases you could make - especially
if you are intending, as most players would, to use it
purely as a sidearm, rather than your primary weapon
as I had to for months of intensive gaming. If I were
to be faced with making the same purchase again,
I would likely get a KWA USP45 as the magazine
release is smaller, like that of my KWA USP Compact
which I have never experienced the same issues with
(and I owned one of those back in the UK as well).
Hopefully I can get mine repaired and bring it
back into my frontline gear circulation once the fresh
magazine release finally arrives. If nothing else, having
to totally dismantle and repair mine taught me a great
deal about the internal operating mechanism, which
I made a reassembly video of for my own YouTube
channel (as there seemed to be little in the way of
information for putting the complicated double action
- single action – de-cocking system back together).
In closing, I’d probably re-iterate that the majority
of my experiences of the HK45 were extremely
positive and the reliability issues are most likely an
artefact of the sheer use and abuse I put all my
equipment through, and thus more of an outlier
than most people’s likely or actual experience. I have
seen many fellow players in Taiwan sporting these on
their hips and not heard the same complaints from
them thus far, and the KWA HK45 is an exceptionally
well-made and comfortable to handle, loud, heavy
recoiling and accurate pistol, which adds to its fun
factor. I made use of mine with the Docter sight
fitted for my first foray into AIPSC in Taiwan and it
performed flawlessly that day, despite my misgivings
of using it skirmishes. AA
“I BEGAN MAKING SINGLE SHOT ELIMINATIONS, OR ACHIEVING SEEMINGLY DIFFICULT
SHOTS ACROSS THE ARENA AND RECEIVING INCREDULOUS REMARKS OR QUESTIONS
OF EXACTLY WHAT I HAD DONE TO THE GUN TO FACILITATE THIS.”
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