Airsoft Action - January 2021

RED CELL
‘OTHER’ GBB PISTOLS RANGE DAY
‘OTHER’ GBB
PISTOLS
RANGE DAY
ALTHOUGH MANY OF THE RED CELL MEMBERS LIVE QUITE CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER, THE RECENT
FULL LOCKDOWN IN THE UK MEANT THAT THEY WERE UNABLE TO MEET IN PERSON, SO BILL LOOKED
TO “ADAPT AND OVERCOME” IN ORDER TO CREATE THIS MONTH’S TEST REPORT AND BRING YOU
THE RESULTS OF THE TEST ON “OTHER” GBB PISTOLS!
I
won’t tell you that the whole C-Virus thing isn’t a
challenge for us, and not just in relation to Red Cell
testing! However, at Airsoft Action we’re all about
solutions and not problems so we’ve endeavoured
to keep everything “business as usual”, and by the
ever-increasing number of you reading not only the
“monthly”, but also our daily website posts, we can
see that this has been of benefit to you even if at
times we’ve scratched our heads a little in how best
to achieve things, even though we’ve had frankly
stupendous support from our friends and partners
involved in the manufacture and distribution of AEGs
and GBBs!
And this is really telling when it comes to any of us
getting together at the moment; with sites closing up
now until the new year, and indeed some indoor sites
that haven’t opened their doors since spring staying
shut, “getting our game on” has never proved so
challenging! Even though the Red Cell group is largely
made up of friends who shoot and play together, even
we have had to make a call on whether or not we
should gather, and as November was “full lockdown”
in the UK we were unable to do so as planned.
However, the group is nothing but resilient, so after
a quick back and forth in our “group chat” online
we decided (it’s a bit of a “Chinese parliament”!)
that although we couldn’t meet in person, we could
still create an article for this month even in isolation!
Luckily the AA Test Pool holds a number of review
samples back for further evaluation and longer-term
testing so I was able to drop off models to members
of the group that hadn’t tried them; Jase and James
got some 226 models, Bill W-R and Jimmy had G&Gs,
whilst Chris and I looked after models we already
owned from ASG and TM. Luckily the entire group
had already tried the new ProForce M17, but as Boycie
was doing a fuller review of this in “RELOADED” this
month we included it here for fairness, as everyone
had enjoyed shooting it at our last meet in October.
So, things are a little different this month, but I
believe the information you’ll find here is perhaps
even more personal and heartfelt than that to date.
Some of the models were completely new to the
testers, whilst others of us have shot the majority
over time. We haven’t picked the models to comment
on individually as we feel they are “the best”, but
because they are all great GBB pistols that are 100%
worth owning; where a model is owned by a member
of the group we have said so to maintain complete
transparency in the testing process.
As usual all the models were tested using NP 2.0
“Green Bottle” gas and RZR .20g BBs; these were
provided to all the testers to maintain parity in testing.
As I write this at the beginning of December,
sadly some of us are looking forward to a continued
lockdown due to the C-Virus as we’re about to enter
“T3”, which is largely the same as the last few weeks
in reality. I’ve already postponed our “PDW Shoot
Day” that was set for 6th December, but we are
hopeful that after the review mid-month we will be
able to get together again, not just to shoot and test,
but to enjoy each other’s company in person rather
than virtually.
Of course I’ll be dishing out Christmas presents to
the group in the form of our new red-plaid combat
shirt “away strip” courtesy of www.invadergear.com,
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JANUARY 2021