Airsoft Action - September 2023
Welcome to another full-to-the-brim copy of AIRSOFT ACTION, and to kick things off this month we’ve gone a bit “polymer crazy” as we focus on THREE new models, all of which are polymer-bodied! Headlining this time is our “take” on the final production version of the VORSK VMP-1, and Jimmy, Ben and Bill have all been hammering this new GBB to find out if the reality lives up to the promise (spoiler… it DOES!). Bill then gets properly involved with the G&G FAR 556 (yes, a FOLDING AR!) and the latest entry-level AEG from HUNTSMAN TACTICAL that’s sure to please many players on a budget! Miguel lands his report on the VIPER VX GEN2 Plate Carrier after some heavy use and abuse, the LEGION get into their favourite Multicam kit as a new sequence of THE CAGE commences, and Stewbacca, ably assisted by Military Anny, continues to delve “Inside Airsoft”, meeting some of the people behind the "names" as they visit RA-TECH and Soloman Taiwan. There’s FIFTEEN more AR SBR AEG models under the spotlight as RED CELL reach the halfway point of their extended testing program, and Bill gets techy (a rare thing indeed!) with an awesome thermal sight from HIKMICRO! To round things out this month there are a couple of mammoth AA LEGION reports the first of which covers some very special CQB Training in the UK, along with Stewbacca's report on the now-annual POLK 3 MilSim game in Taiwan… if you like your airsoft hot and full-on then you need to check this out! As usual we hope that there’s a little of something for everyone to dip into this month; and remember… “If it’s in airsoft, it’s in AIRSOFT ACTION”!
Welcome to another full-to-the-brim copy of AIRSOFT ACTION, and to kick things off this month we’ve gone a bit “polymer crazy” as we focus on THREE new models, all of which are polymer-bodied!
Headlining this time is our “take” on the final production version of the VORSK VMP-1, and Jimmy, Ben and Bill have all been hammering this new GBB to find out if the reality lives up to the promise (spoiler… it DOES!). Bill then gets properly involved with the G&G FAR 556 (yes, a FOLDING AR!) and the latest entry-level AEG from HUNTSMAN TACTICAL that’s sure to please many players on a budget!
Miguel lands his report on the VIPER VX GEN2 Plate Carrier after some heavy use and abuse, the LEGION get into their favourite Multicam kit as a new sequence of THE CAGE commences, and Stewbacca, ably assisted by Military Anny, continues to delve “Inside Airsoft”, meeting some of the people behind the "names" as they visit RA-TECH and Soloman Taiwan.
There’s FIFTEEN more AR SBR AEG models under the spotlight as RED CELL reach the halfway point of their extended testing program, and Bill gets techy (a rare thing indeed!) with an awesome thermal sight from HIKMICRO!
To round things out this month there are a couple of mammoth AA LEGION reports the first of which covers some very special CQB Training in the UK, along with Stewbacca's report on the now-annual POLK 3 MilSim game in Taiwan… if you like your airsoft hot and full-on then you need to check this out!
As usual we hope that there’s a little of something for everyone to dip into this month; and remember… “If it’s in airsoft, it’s in AIRSOFT ACTION”!
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ARMOURY<br />
VORSK VMP-1 GBB<br />
In terms of use I’ve settled on a .28g BB as having<br />
the best all-round performance given the gas that I<br />
use, although the VMP-1 will most certainly hop<br />
a .30g if you so desire. With the .28g weight<br />
though once you’ve got the hop<br />
set right (easy by finger or with<br />
the neat little tool provided), it’s<br />
bang on... I’ve been clanging<br />
300mm x 300mm steels at 30m,<br />
and I believe the VMP-1 has legs<br />
way beyond that once it beds in as<br />
the trajectory of .28g is<br />
dead flat at that range.<br />
So, has the VMP-<br />
1 lived up to my<br />
expectations? It sure<br />
has, in every way<br />
possible, especially<br />
given the price! This<br />
is a gas platform that<br />
delivers on all fronts, and one that<br />
puts having a gas SMG easily within the<br />
pocket-reach of most airsofters out there.<br />
It’s a fabulous little CQB tool that with<br />
a little love could easily become a solid<br />
woodland skirmisher… but of course that’s<br />
down to you! It certainly has the accuracy to<br />
hold its own, and it WILL lob a BB out past 50m,<br />
so then it’s just down to tactics and fieldcraft… and<br />
sadly this is something that is down to the user, and<br />
not the VMP-1!<br />
TEAM TALK<br />
So, enough of me blathering on, as obviously I’m very<br />
happy indeed with my own VMP-1! But what did Ben<br />
and Jimmy think about theirs?<br />
Jimmy: Being among the first group of people<br />
outside of the Vorsk team themselves to see and get<br />
hands on with the VMP1 was an experience in itself.<br />
No one in the airsoft world knew about Vorsk’s latest<br />
offering and who’d have thought this little SMG<br />
would be so popular!<br />
From the point of us seeing it, it wasn’t long before<br />
teasers would begin to flood the internet. Social<br />
media blew up and it wasn’t long after that the VMP1<br />
was a hot topic and it was being talked about so<br />
much. We had the immense pleasure of finally seeing<br />
the finished product at IWA back in March and it was<br />
even better looking than the prototype we’d seen on<br />
our photoshoot! We were kindly given one each to<br />
test out and at first I was a little unenthused to be<br />
honest as I am not much of a fan of GBBRs; I love<br />
a GBB pistol but that’s as far as my love for gassers<br />
goes. I have experienced other gas SMGs in the past<br />
and they were a bit meh and didn’t really operate all<br />
that well. I went into this with an unbiased mind and<br />
decided to give it a go for the purpose of science.<br />
The first thing I always do is straight to the bench<br />
and find out how to take things apart and what’s<br />
inside. It was very easy to remove the top cover, as<br />
the guide rod and one screw hold it in place and once<br />
removed you have access to the bolt and the outer<br />
barrel. In order to get to the trigger group you have<br />
to remove the bolt, and this requires you to remove all<br />
the outer barrel which is very easy to do.<br />
There is one screw on the underside, one on the<br />
top of the block and a clip. Once these are out you<br />
can then lift the barrel and slide it out with the bolt.<br />
One thing that was apparent was the abundance<br />
of grease; I understand why it’s there as new, but I<br />
am not a fan of grease when it comes to GBBs so I<br />
cleaned off as much as I could and replaced it with<br />
a good quality silicone oil. I find grease can attract<br />
debris easier and tends to retain the debris…. not<br />
great with precision moving parts!<br />
I noted the hop unit looked very similar to one I<br />
had seen in the past on a KWA MAC 11, a system 7<br />
which are a proprietary arrangement, and the MAC<br />
unit didn’t really provide much in the way of hop. The<br />
hop on the Vorsk offered around the same amount of<br />
adjustment but this one actually gave enough pressure<br />
to be able to lift a .30g BB and give a respectable<br />
amount of range. The inner barrel did require a clean,<br />
but that’s something you have to do on most new<br />
guns, so not a problem. Another thing I noticed was<br />
the inner barrel had a threaded end which accepted<br />
the extended section of barrel from the Vorsk pistols,<br />
but when fitted the power shot up and the velocity<br />
was way too much, especially as I was testing on<br />
Nuprol 3.0 gas!<br />
Looking at the nozzle it is a pretty standard looking<br />
GBB nozzle similar to what you would find in many<br />
“SOCIAL MEDIA BLEW UP AND IT WASN’T LONG AFTER THAT THE VMP1 WAS A<br />
HOT TOPIC AND IT WAS BEING TALKED ABOUT SO MUCH. WE HAD THE IMMENSE<br />
PLEASURE OF FINALLY SEEING THE FINISHED PRODUCT AT IWA BACK IN MARCH<br />
AND IT WAS EVEN BETTER LOOKING THAN THE PROTOTYPE WE’D SEEN ON OUR<br />
PHOTOSHOOT! ”<br />
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