Daytate AirWolf preview- update.

well here we are again, firstly sorry for being rather quiet on here for a long while, not sure why but i've neglected the site recently, so sorry. as you can see from the picture above we've gone and got ourselves a nice daystate airwolf, and by god its brilliant! i haven't sured it as much as i would have liked but from a few sessions plinking i have been able to get 10+ shots through near enough the same hole at any one time, so look out for the review of that coming soon, i really can't wait to get it filmed, hopefully there will be plenty to watch. we've decided to do most of our filming up on the farm to try and change things up a bit, means we can do a lot more long range testing, and use various types of targets. it will also make the pyro video a lot easier to film (as its giving me a right headache at the moment). as far as the youtube channel is going, i think we're doing ok! views are up and our growing group of subscribers is really encouraging. We've even had an offer of sponsorship from someone who can only be described as completely unknown, so we aren't really sure on what the deal was there, but they wanted partnership and everything, made me laugh a fair bit.

anyways, coming up soon we have the tabletop review of the cp88, a really nice pistol that i think any serious airgunner should own, well worth the price tag attached to it. and maybe even the firing review of the asg po7 duty, just depends what mood i'm in!

untill our next post, thank you for all the support, and safe shooting!

Pyro Special!

For those of you that haven't seen our update video then you may be interested to know what is coming up in the next few months. Firstly we will have the firing review of the baikal makarov coming your way soon shortly followed by reviews of the Umarex MP5 pdw, umarex cp88 and the ASG cz po7 duty.

On as completely different note we have decided to do a video dedicated to reviewing a few TLSFX products including smoke grenades, pea grenades, thunderflashes and a couple of thermobaric grenades, a video showing both the grenades on the "table" and also operation will be coming your way as soon as we have sorted out a safe place to test the pyrotechnics out. Also we have just brought in a starter pack of the Firebird reactive targets, another great uk based company! again we will do a table top review of the kit and then test them to show you exactly how much fun these things are, at a estimated 120db make sure your ready to hear the full effect of these targets!

thanks for all the support we've got over the past year, even we never thought that the channel would do this well, so thanks to all the subscribers and all of our viewers on youtube, now to work out how to make 2012 even better!

replica reviews team

And now for something completely different

We were sat thinking the other evening about what you guys might want to see on the channel, something a little bit different maybe... so after a very long think (all of two seconds) we couldn't help but oder what arrived today, we are keeping everything very hush hush at the minute but see if you can guess what we'll be reviewing very soon: if you have any idea's send us a pm on youtube or even comment on our channel, but until we spill the beans here is the only hint we'll be giving before the video's come out!

New Arrival!

Well here we are with yet another new pistol to add to the collection, this time its the ASG CZ PO7 duty. we're yet to shoot it but it looks like its going to be a really nice gun, first impressions are really good. the front sight blade did fall off earlier though!! but thats all fixed up now so keep your eyes open for a full review coming soon! We also have reviews of the umare mp5 pdw and the umarex cp88 coming your way, we are trying to get the video's sorted and ready for upload as quick as we can. until the po7's review heres sneak peak!

Umarex Walther PPK/S

Hello and welcome to another one of our replica reviews. As i'm sure you've guessed by the title and the picture today i will be reviewing the Umarex Walther PPk, in particular the dual colour "nickel" version. As i'm sure many of you know this is a blowback BB firing gun based on the Walther PPK which was first introduced to be used by german police "back in the day" and later used as 007's service pistol becoming an icon in its own right. so that gives you a basic introduction to the ppk, lets move onto the pistol itself.

The Pistol

One of the first thing you'll notice when you pick this gun up is its compact size, even for someone like myself with medium sized hands this gun felt small, a lot smaller than the makarov, yet just as weighty. This weight is due to the guns full metal construction, virtually all of the gun is metal apart from a few things such as the grips and the magazine, and surprisingly the hammer. Although it would have been nice for everything to be metal the feel of the grips doesn't really ruin the feel of the gun when your holding it, it feels just as sturdy as i would expect metal or wood grips to feel. The only thing that let the gun down was the magazine, although spares are available the magazine really doesn't feel very well made at all, and if i'm honest, i can see myself needing to buy extra mags as i'm not sure they are built to last- but i guess thats just the way with most things in todays climate. 

The CO2 for this pistol is housed in the grip of the ppk rather than in a magazine and is easily accessed by simply popping of the grips, unlike other umarex guns you don't need to press in the magazine release catch, you simply pop it open with your thumb. The CO2 housing is a really tight fit when your fitting the 12g cartridge, there really is a knack to doing it. The easiest way i have found to load the co2 is to lower the screw as far as you can then slot the 12g cartridge into the pistol bottom first, if you put the neck of the cartridge in first it won't fir in the pistol at all. One thing i will add whilst on the subject of the co2 bulb, when it runs out, get it out quickly, if you give it time to warm up it can be a challenge to get it back out the pistol.

Now i'll move onto the features of this pistol, which are fairly few and far between. The ppk features fixed sights, both front and back, which isn't an issue for a pistol like this as accuracy is never going to be good enough when using it to need adjustable sights. Although this gun is a blowback pistol there is no slide release catch to be found on the gun, which is very odd when you take into account the fact the slide locks back on the last bb and cannot be released forward again without taking out the magazine and cocking the slide again. this is a nice feature to have when your shooting but it would have been nice to have seen a slide release catch.

 The other main feature on this gun is the working safety catch, it isn't found where you would expect it to be found on the real gun, but nevertheless it is fully functional. as you can see from the picture above the safety can be found on the right hand side of the gun and is a simple sliding safety catch. putting the pistol into safe mode is easy enough, simply slide down the catch which then goes into the small groove that you can see next to the red dot. to put the pistol back into fire mode you simply push the safety in so that it is out of the groove and slide it up to fire mode, its as easy as that.

 
Overall its a great little gun for the price, ypu can pick it up here in the uk for £70, and for the money you get a really nice plinker, and if i'm completely honest thats all it is. but that said its still a very sturdy, well constructed pistol. If you don't like the Nickel finish you can also get a plain black version thats often a bit cheaper than the one shown here. As i said near the start of the review this gun really does suit smaller hands, something that you might want to take into account if you have larger hands. From a collectors point of view its not the most accurate gun to the real steel version, but it's still a great little gun. Also mentioned earlier are the easily available magazines, something that might be of interest to anyone that doesn't want to stop every two seconds to reload the mags. You can even buy ppk specific lasers to put on the gun too, although these can be fairly costly. Thank you for reading another one of our reviews, if you have any questions then please feel free to ask, also if you want to check out a full video review please check out the video below. thanks again. 

New arrival

well guys we have yet another gun to add to our ever growing collection, this time its a nice nickel walther cp88 made by umarex, we've been shooting it all afternoon and its looking like a really good gun, full review to come soon!!

we will be filming several more reviews tomorrow and hopefully getting all upcoming firing reviews done aswell, so bare with us whilst we try and get loads of new video's coming to you as soon as we can.

until the review comes, heres a sneak peak.....