ICS Pistols (Split from The "Share A Bargain" Thread)

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L3wisD said:
Fire-Support have the ICS BLE Alpha pistol with two extra mags for £89.00

https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/ics-alpha-ble-gbb-pistol-tan-slide-with-2-extra-magazines--special-offer--

For a decent pistol and extra mags, that's a steal.

It's not a looker. But if you want your first pistol, for the money, you'll do ok with that.
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Excellent deal and I am tempted.

However these guns are obviously not selling well.

There must be a good reason.

I could live with the looks but there may be reliability or parts availability problems.

I wonder if they will be discontinued.

 
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Lozart said:
Two reasons I can think of:

ICS aren't very well known for making pistols

It's not a Glock
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yep good reasons, seen a few ICS pistols retail at the usual +£100 then drop down as not a big seller

for a 1st pistol, thats ideal as mentioned as it has extra mags :)

Also split and moved the topic as Jedi will kill us for going OTT in there if it continues!  :lol: :lol: :rolleyes:

 
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I honestly think it’s down to the design. I really like ICS stuff, but because it isn’t modelled off a real gun, that puts me off. One because of the looks, but also because of holster options etc. If that was a glock or USP or whatever, I’d have bought one the day it came out. 

 
Wo1f said:
I honestly think it’s down to the design. I really like ICS stuff, but because it isn’t modelled off a real gun, that puts me off. One because of the looks, but also because of holster options etc. If that was a glock or USP or whatever, I’d have bought one the day it came out. 
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Which nicely proves my second point.

It's not based on a well known gun. If it was in Call of Doody they'd be selling by the metric fuckton.

 
So a poor commercial decision to produce a non replica then.

G&G didn't make that mistake with their pistols.

Wonder if their M9 has decent sales.

 
emilianoksa said:
So a poor commercial decision to produce a non replica then.
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It's not a poor commercial decision when you take into account the cost of licencing an actual replica. If ICS don't want to get embroiled in a trademark infringement suit then that's the way they have to go, but as @CKinnerley mentioned before it's so close to being an FNS 9 that it makes no odds.

But it isn't a glock so nobody wants it. Because sheep.

 
Lozart said:
It's not a poor commercial decision when you take into account the cost of licencing an actual replica. If ICS don't want to get embroiled in a trademark infringement suit then that's the way they have to go, but as @CKinnerley mentioned before it's so close to being an FNS 9 that it makes no odds.

But it isn't a glock so nobody wants it. Because sheep.
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I can see bits of FN in it, and I do love FN. my FNX45 is my favourite pistol. What holster would you buy for it? That’s my issue. If I can’t carry it, what’s the point. 

 Everyone else makes replicas without much issue, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t. 

 
Booligan thought quite well of it




+ Unique looks.

+ Fits Glock holsters.

+ Good range. 

- Gas efficiency not great

- Isn't a Glock

 
this thread has me thinking maybe i'm weird because i don't own, nor plan to own a glock.....

 
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it does seem a good performer but it doesn't look like any one model and that's the start and end of it. if airsoft players were purely practical  we would carry stubby m4 like things with drum mags and a MK23 NBB as a back up. i have avoided ics the last few year because they keep releasing non guns.

 
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this thread has me thinking maybe i'm weird because i don't own, nor plan to own a glock.....
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They never appealed much to me either Adolf until I shot a real steel one alongside several others: berettas, walthers, 1911s etc.

Fell in love and bought my own - obviously I lived abroad at the time.

They are easy to strip down completely, the slides never rust and they never jam, evenif you keep them dirty.

They feel good in the hand and get you on sight quickly.

I wanted to cry when I sold that gun. My little Makarov too. But not so much the others.

Of course the airsoft ones are a far cry, but my WE does look and feel good. It is some sort of consolation.

The finish on the slide doesn't look like it will last though.

Can pot metal be cerakoted or duracoated, do you know?

Or would anodising be better?

 
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see that's why i'm not a fan, don't get me wrong if i lived in america and felt compelled to have a self defence pistol it'd unquestionably be a glock because it does that most boring of things where it just goes bang when you really need it to.

however it's airsoft, and you don't get a penalty for carrying something that's a bit different, and given how they're internally much of a muchness i much preferr the less trodden path.

 
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