Recommended Pistols?
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I hear nothing but great things about TM, but for their price, a fully plastic pistol never sat right with me.
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Simple, don’t buy one. You can make almost any pistol fire as well as a TM if you throw enough money at it.
The rest of us will just by a TM lol
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If you don't need GBB, ASG or STTI mk23 with upgrades. A new hop rubber, barrel and hadron h-plate aren't that hard to install, but will make that pistol shoot amazingly well.
If you want GBB, I'll throw my hat in the ring for anything TM. The fact that they're plastic is part of the reason they're so good, as the lightweight slide will cycle even in winter, when most metal slide pistols will struggle. Just don't open them up and try to upgrade them, TM pistols are fantastic out of the box because of some weird voodoo pixie magic they put in there to make it shoot stupidly well.
If you want GBB, I'll throw my hat in the ring for anything TM. The fact that they're plastic is part of the reason they're so good, as the lightweight slide will cycle even in winter, when most metal slide pistols will struggle. Just don't open them up and try to upgrade them, TM pistols are fantastic out of the box because of some weird voodoo pixie magic they put in there to make it shoot stupidly well.
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Yeah TM's feel a bit lacking in the hand but generally work much better out of the box, especially in our cooler climate.
Otherwise just decide on a model you like and go with that. Most people use pistols far less than they anticipate.
Otherwise just decide on a model you like and go with that. Most people use pistols far less than they anticipate.
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Another +1 for anything TM. If you can live with not having a metal bodied pistol then definitely worth it.
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Action Army AAP-01 - cheap as chips, shoots like a laser out of the box due to less moving parts and static barrel, arguably the best looking Glock, multitude of upgrade parts if you end up liking it, if you don't want it it will sell like hot cakes on second hand market. Compatible with Glock mags would you want to add more realistic pistol to your collection somewhere down the line.
79 pounds and it hits above twice the price:
79 pounds and it hits above twice the price:
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With a budget of under £100, and you also don't say if you're UKARA or not so £10 of your budget may go on a two-tone job, like others have said it has to be the Action Army AAP-01.
If you don't hammer it on auto it's amazingly solid, and even if you need to two-tone it you could spend £10 on a Maple Leaf Autobot bucking as well and still be within your budget.
If you don't hammer it on auto it's amazingly solid, and even if you need to two-tone it you could spend £10 on a Maple Leaf Autobot bucking as well and still be within your budget.
Its just that most airsoft pistols end up being an occasionally used accessory anyways, and at close range (which is when you want to use a pistol) almost all of them have the same effect. So i would much rather pay £100 odd for a decent full metal WE than £150 plus for a TM. But anyway TM is not the only brand which makes quality Airsoft pistols, i could buy an Umarex glock which comes just as recommended as TM and are metal, so i really don't understand the TM hype personally.
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So you don't use it much is a reason to buy a poorer product. who recommends Umarex glocks? Umarex are just rebranded KWA (23 year old design) or VFC never heard a good word about a VFC pistol. Also WE glock cheapest i could find £114.00 or TM £119.00 for the sake of £5 you can have a gun that will out perform the WE year round. regards the TM hype most WE are clones of TM so no TM no WE.
Pretty much answered your own question. It's usually someone else starts recommending them not the Op. You should get yourself one, it won't be as good as a TM but it will be metal if that's what matters it ticks your boxes.
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Thats where we differ. I almost exclusively use my pistols, as I don’t skirmish I do Practical Pistol.
Over the years I’ve tried almost every brand, and nothing compares to TM yet (watch out for the GHK Glock though)
Umarex are absolute crap, VFC OEM and very poor QA. The ONLY reason they are popular is because it’s almost the only way to get a trademarked product in the US. People hate admitting they’ve bought lemons, generally. The occasional VFC, by pure chance, ends up OK. They look nice, but internals are poor.
If you must have a metal slide pistol, buy a WE Glock (£100-110), put a maple leaf hop-unit, barrel, rubber I-key in it and it will perform pretty consistently. Still won’t be a TM though.
Having pretty much exhausted every pistol on the market, I’ve settled on the TM FNX. Large mag capacity, max 80m range out of the box, ultra efficient, super snappy, optic ready. Personally, the only thing I don’t like is an open hammer, I’d rather it was like a Glock
OP hasn't posted other than the OP we are just arguing amongst our selves
