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Are WE sidearms worth even thinking about ?

What’s better fully upgraded cyma w pressure rail holo and box mag for 200 or a tm ?

 
All my side arms are WE and I have nothing but praise for them. They get used hard and run on red gas all year round. Not one of them has let me down. Yes I've fitted some maple leaf hop goodies to them but that's as much because I enjoy teching my guns as much as using them ( that's why I am on my second aeg build from scratch this year !) but they are fine out of the box. I've got the MEU model which will be basically the same as the Drug Lord and it's great. 

 
Their Glocks are good. I have four of them (3xG17 and 1xG34) and will be acquiring a fifth when funds allow. These are a good buy, especially from China, and are TM compatible.

TM plastic pistols are still the best, but if you want a Glock with a metal slide, WE is the way to go. I would never pay through the nose for the trades on the Umarex one. I believe the OEM is VFC and so it is not Marui compatible. 

I have heard that WE SigP226 and M9A1 are no worse than the KJW versions. The mags will certainly be better.

The only green gas 1911s worth buying are the TM ones. I have no idea how the KJW co2 1911s are, but I really don't like co2 anyway.

I have a terrible desire to get one of the WE Makarovs but have heard conflicting reports on reliability. May still get one though, just for the looks. 

 
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emilianoksa said:
Their Glocks are good. I have four of them (3xG17 and 1xG34) and will be acquiring a fifth when funds allow. These are a good buy, especially from China, and are TM compatible.

TM plastic pistols are still the best, but if you want a Glock with a metal slide, WE is the way to go. I would never pay through the nose for the trades on the Umarex one. I believe the OEM is VFC and so it is not Marui compatible. 

I have heard that WE SigP226 and M9A1 are no worse than the KJW versions. The mags will certainly be better.

The only green gas 1911s worth buying are the TM ones. I have no idea how the KJW co2 1911s are, but I really don't like co2 anyway.

I have a terrible desire to get one of the WE Makarovs but have heard conflicting reports on reliability. May still get one though, just for the looks. 
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Hold on tm don’t make metal guns ?

 
The slides are plastic but the lowers are mainly metal.

This is what makes them gas efficient.

 
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Druid799 said:
As a perfect example of the non existent QC on most cloned guns (which me personally I think is the biggest reason there so hit or miss) , it’s well documented how bad there guns were up until recently no denying it yet I’ve still got a WE 1911 that was bought from the very first batch to come in to the uk well before the VCR bill came in to effect and was bought from airsoft world (or Airsoft Scotland as they were then) and it’s still going fine today ! ?
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Doesnt help that Im super biast against 1911s either ;)

 
co2 mags tend to have a short life span. The newer beretta models are ok but I'd still pic one of their non select fire glocks if I were looking for something to skirmish with.

 
Yeah I just hate glocks so ugly ? not fan of 1911 either

 
emilianoksa said:
Their Glocks are good. I have four of them (3xG17 and 1xG34) and will be acquiring a fifth when funds allow. These are a good buy, especially from China, and are TM compatible.

TM plastic pistols are still the best, but if you want a Glock with a metal slide, WE is the way to go. I would never pay through the nose for the trades on the Umarex one. I believe the OEM is VFC and so it is not Marui compatible. 

I have heard that WE SigP226 and M9A1 are no worse than the KJW versions. The mags will certainly be better.

The only green gas 1911s worth buying are the TM ones. I have no idea how the KJW co2 1911s are, but I really don't like co2 anyway.

I have a terrible desire to get one of the WE Makarovs but have heard conflicting reports on reliability. May still get one though, just for the looks. 
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I've got the WE sig 226, very happy with it. I've 'Maple leafed ' it although that is by no means essential. I tend to run it on .3s although it will happily handle heavier. Only down side is gas capacity in the mag, double stack mag and one fill of gas tends to give me about 1.5 mags worth. I just take 3 mags with me so not a big deal. I also have the WE 1911 MEU  and again it's great. Maple leaf inners cos I like them, I run it as secondary when I snipe so use .36 BB's same as I use in the sniper to save arsing about with different weights and it lifts them easily. Get a good 2 mags worth out of 1 gas fill.

 
I have "a few" pistols, many of them WE. Being an ex RS shooter from before 97 (yes, quite old) I do like full metal. It's a pity the WE guns are largely not trademarked though. Agree on the Makarov, being a fixed barrel it is very accurate, especialy with the extender.

I have two full metal 1911s. One is a TM with a body kit, can't remember which, but not guarded. The other is an Army R27 (MEU clone). The Marui remains phenomenaly accurate.

The WE/Cybergun Desert Eagle is very nice, fully traded, impressive kick. Just needed a minor tweak to the hop to get it to work perfectly.

 
No one recommending the armorer works pistols? I've 10 pistols and my 2 armorer works ones are easily the best. Got the Glock 17 Hex cut out model and a nice hi capa, both are set up to handle both green gas and CO2 for when its colder and work brilliantly. Have a WE, 2 ASG glock varients and a bunch of others. But the Armorer Works are easily the best performers and worth the extra £££s

 
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Luke85 said:
No one recommending the armoury works pistols? I've 10 pistols and my 2 armoury works ones are easily the best. Got the Glock 17 Hex cut out model and a nice hi capa, both are set up to handle both green gas and CO2 for when its colder and work brilliantly. Have a WE, 2 ASG glock varients and a bunch of others. But the Armoury Works are easily the best performers and worth the extra £££s
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Armorer Works not Armoury Works. They are very good, solid guns.

Identical in workings to a WE but far better quality control, and fancier externals, so they work as well as the best Monday morning guns from WE.

 
Funny how WE pistols get slagged off,  yet some of the best selling and most expensive guns on the market eg. the SAI BLU, Hicapa Combat Master, Taran Tactical Innovations etc. appear to be produced by AW apparently via WE.

 
At the core they are all based off the same guns, they just come pre upgraded and with shiny extras. 

 
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