Airsoft Action - January 2021

RED CELL
‘OTHER’ GBB PISTOLS RANGE DAY
along with some new team patches! Wherever you
are all of the Red Cell crew wish you a very happy
airsoft Christmas, and we’ll be back in 2021 to rock
things along with our take on PDW AEGs!
With all the stats in the bag, it’s time to hand over
now to the Red Cell crew themselves to give you an
idea of the pistol models they had to test!
RED CELL REPORTS
Jimmy: This month I have been given the G&G GTP9;
I didn’t know much about this model, and haven’t
had a real look at it before. I have to look at this
solely as an airsoft pistol and not a replica for the fact
that it isn’t a “replica”, so I have nothing to compare
it to from the real world of pistols! That said, from
my point of view it is very familiar and carries some
characteristics of some other brands. For instance,
if hypothetically speaking H&K, CZ and Glock had a
love triangle this would be the result! I feel it has an
identity crisis, but this is a complete design and 100%
from the amazing designers of G&G. The first time I
saw this pistol I may have given it a bit of a hard time
followed with some bad press, I won’t lie; I hated the
bones of it, the look of it, and the feel of it but here’s
where it gets interesting… Oh, excuse me, I’ve just
heard the oven ping and I must go and remove my
humble pie, so please do forgive me for talking with
my mouth full!
Before I took the GTP9 to the range I sat and had a
good long look at this thing both inside and out, and
one thing that you notice and can’t get away from is
the fact this pistol is dripping with brand marks. The
G&G logo is plastered all around it someone really
wanted people to know who made it. They have
branded it in places which quite frankly don’t need
to be branded! Places where it’s not going to be seen
unless stripped which tells me G&G are very proud of
this one! Before any shooting commenced I wanted
to chrono test it and the first 10 shots out of the box
were quite impressive on the power output; using RZR
0.20g BBs the power was better than a lot of other
pistols I’ve tested with a high fps of 302 and a low
fps of 294. I proceeded to the range and released
a whole magazine with 15 at a slow pace and the
remaining 8 rapid fire and it happily emptied all of
them with equal power. With a slight adjustment to
the hop up I had the BBs shooting nice and straight
and hitting centre mass on the target every time at
a distance of 10 metres. I managed to get through 3
magazines before having to regas, as on the 4th mag
the slide wasn’t travelling far enough back to reset for
a follow up shot. After putting 100 BBs down range
I went back to the chrono and found that the fps
had dropped slightly, highest fps 290 and the lowest
fps was 284 so if we look at the earlier readings to
the recent readings we are looking at an average of
around the 290 mark. Performance wise it performed
much better than I had imagined it would and I
actually expected it to fall flat on its face; hmm, I’ll
take another slice of that pie then please… at this rate
I don’t think there’s going to be any pie left to share!
So now that we have covered all of the good stuff
let’s take a look at the little niggles I have. The trigger
is very Glock-like, but it has a fair amount of take up
with a massive 12mm before anything happens, then
it has a reset of about 6mm. It’s not a heavy pull but
it’s not what I’m used to. The magazine itself isn’t a
problem and can accommodate 27 BBs at a push,
the problem is in the loading. It is quite stiff on the
feed lips and the mag follower has to be pulled fully
down and locked in place in order to make loading
somewhat easier, and should you forget to unlock
it (like I did several times) it will render it useless
especially when you need it most but to be honest
that’s more a user error than a mag problem. I’m sure
that after a fashion you will remember to unlock it
without giving it a thought.
I must admit I have been proven wrong, and
yes, I did have to eat the whole humble pie. Out of
everything regarding the GTP9 I could only really
find them 3 little niggles which are from a personal
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