The 'What have you just bought' Thread

[Druid799]

Yeah I know that's going to happen and I'll still buy it too ?

UPDATE:

Just got the WE P35 and...

... I'm sending it back...

Shoots badly, no hop adjust, really light = cheap metal

Back to waiting...

And that ladies and gentlemen is QC in a nutshell , my one ? Really accurate (without any hop adjustment) and weighs a fair bit ! ? 

 

[Tackle]

Yeah I know that's going to happen and I'll still buy it too ?

UPDATE:

Just got the WE P35 and...

... I'm sending it back...

Shoots badly, no hop adjust, really light = cheap metal

Back to waiting...

The Browning is iconic, almost as legendary as the 1911, why has nobody else done a skirmishable copy ?

 

[hitmanNo2]

Because it's not in use with US forces pretty much.  If the SEALs start packing it, you can bet TM would have one out in an instant. 

 

[M_P]

The Browning is iconic, almost as legendary as the 1911, why has nobody else done a skirmishable copy ?

Because not many people would actually want them probably. 

Most people stick to newer or more modern gear and guns and the Browning doesn't really fit that mold. Doesn't help that it was never adopted on a large scale by the US either 

 

[TheFull9]

I don't think US military adoption is necessarily all it is, but that is a factor.  I think the BHP is troubled by being super generic looking to the vast majority of people out there and for some reason it just never gained any notoriety in general.  Even though is was seriously advanced and miles ahead of its' time when initially designed and manufactured (pre-WW2) you barely see it featured prominently in films or games (especially compared to more popular pistols) and if you do its' looks will cause most people who only know a tiny bit about guns to mistake it for a 1911.  It is odd because some of the most elite units of Nazi Germany used it as well as SF and Airborne elements from the commonwealth on the Allied side, then it was our standard issue pistol until the Glock came along in the mid-2010s so it did many decades of service.  However it did become rather obsolescent in the 80s once the M9, P226 and similar started hitting the scene and obviously the entire internet and FPS games and airsoft didn't take off properly until the 90s.  An awful lot of the guns that are cemented in to the popular parlance these days are designs that were all the rage in the late 80s-early 90s.  The BHP sits in the awkward middle ground where its' WW2 service isn't much known or documented, yet its' popularity had faded come the golden age of action movies and the birth of our modern shooting games (virtual and real).

It also kinda suffers from being too good in a way as there's nothing that stands out about it, it's mostly a boringly effective handgun and even worse its' plain looking to most folks as I mentioned.  It's not a big .45 with chunky rounds, doesn't have a crappy single stack mag capacity like the P-38, no weird action like the Luger, no crazy plastic-fantastic like the Glock (that blew people's minds in the 80s).  Mediocre triggers and sights on most of them as well, so while it is pretty good it's not an amazing performer either and didn't have the best rep for reliability in some military circles.   Never had any really large community/industry around it doing modifications either.  There was a little bit when pistols were still legal and there was more competition in the UK/Europe, but obviously the 1911s and Berettas would have been 'the thing to have' for civilians in the US.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

that's a good point, i've always found it a kind of meh handgun, nothing particularly bad about it, a lot is quite good especially in context, but it's just not exciting.

it's like owning a vw golf, it's not bad, but it's not going to impress anybody either.

 

[EDcase]

But it was so iconic in the 80's...

The SAS used it and it was in Beverly Hills Cop ?

I don't understand why the 1911 is so much more popular now.

Might have to start a new thread on this... ?

@Druid799: Mine doesn't have any hop adjustment.  Its got the hex grub screw but its been glued in and when I looked in the hop housing there is no mechanical way for it to put pressure on the top anyway.  Sounds like there are different versions

 

[TheFull9]

The SAS used it and it was in Beverly Hills Cop ?

Get what you're saying, but when you think 80s SAS you think Iranian Embassy (well most people do) and which gun gets all the headlines in media related to that?  As per usual MP5s and specifically ones with gigantic-massive lights attached to them.

 

[Badllama]

Before they were banned in the UK I shot the Browning and 1911. The Browning was a fucking awful gun to shoot very wippy too light for it's own good the 1911 was brilliant loved shooting it. No relevance   to airsoft of course ?

 

[Druid799]

Before they were banned in the UK I shot the Browning and 1911. The Browning was a fucking awful gun to shoot very wippy too light for it's own good the 1911 was brilliant loved shooting it. No relevance   to airsoft of course ?

AND I found it the other way round ! Hated the 1911 but loved the browning ! ??

 

[Guest]

Got this coming, not pricey, wanted to try one as it’s the closest gbb to an AEG EVO I knew about 

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[TheFull9]

As much as people on the internet would say they want it, you'd just not get the same efficiency, winter performance and/or recoil from a GBB Evo3 given it would hold about half the gas per mag.  I remember the G5 being insanely popular maybe 3 or 4 years ago (at a rough guess) but that seems to have vanished now.  I don't know of many more practical GBBr designs (if any) but I get the distinct vibe that HPA replaced gas-in-mag as the popular 'thing' for much of the community now; along with very practical AEGs like the ARP.  A shame in a way but understandable in ways too.

 

[Guest]

As much as people on the internet would say they want it, you'd just not get the same efficiency, winter performance and/or recoil from a GBB Evo3 given it would hold about half the gas per mag.  I remember the G5 being insanely popular maybe 3 or 4 years ago (at a rough guess) but that seems to have vanished now.  I don't know of many more practical GBBr designs (if any) but I get the distinct vibe that HPA replaced gas-in-mag as the popular 'thing' for much of the community now; along with very practical AEGs like the ARP.  A shame in a way but understandable in ways too.

Errrr.........

 

[Tackle]

Because not many people would actually want them probably. 

Most people stick to newer or more modern gear and guns and the Browning doesn't really fit that mold. Doesn't help that it was never adopted on a large scale by the US either 

Disagree, someone posts a link to an alleged manufacturer considering bringing one out, the number of positive replies is usually massive, & it's been like that for almost as long as I've been playing, yet still no ones brought out a good one, & let's be honest, it's airsoft, internally everything is close to identical, it's just the cosmetic outsides that float our boat............TM need to take a hint & knock one out, it'd sell out.

But it was so iconic in the 80's...

The SAS used it and it was in Beverly Hills Cop ?

I don't understand why the 1911 is so much more popular now.

Might have to start a new thread on this... ?

@Druid799: Mine doesn't have any hop adjustment.  Its got the hex grub screw but its been glued in and when I looked in the hop housing there is no mechanical way for it to put pressure on the top anyway.  Sounds like there are different versions

Def needs its own thread ?

AND I found it the other way round ! Hated the 1911 but loved the browning ! ??

I loved it, I even briefly owned one, a nice argentine vigilante model, with tangent sights lol, don't know how far galtieri's lads thought they were gonna be hitting with them ?.

never got near a 1911 though, maybe next time I hit the states I'll have a go ?

 

[cropzy]

Let me know how you get on with it as I have been considering one.

Just done a full game day with it. Worthe very penny. Insanely comfortable, the most comfy belt I have worn. Forgot it was there. Also it sits wherevever you put it. Literally doesn't slide up or down. The buckle is strong as well.

Get one.

 

[Skara]

Just done a full game day with it. Worthe very penny. Insanely comfortable, the most comfy belt I have worn. Forgot it was there. Also it sits wherevever you put it. Literally doesn't slide up or down. The buckle is strong as well.

Get one.

Picture of the assembled thing? Just so we can see what kind of weight it had to bear.

 

[Musica]

Go pro mount for my dye mask. Fed up of people starting arguements with me hoping it works like a dash cam. I never tell anyone I shoot or think I shot they are hit that's not my responsbility but people still like to argue with me for some reason.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Paintball-Mask-Gopro-Mount-DYE-Eflex-grills-Vio/223611837249?hash=item34104ddb41:g:1EgAAOSw5wNcKiGB

 

[M_P]

Disagree, someone posts a link to an alleged manufacturer considering bringing one out, the number of positive replies is usually massive, & it's been like that for almost as long as I've been playing, yet still no ones brought out a good one, & let's be honest, it's airsoft, internally everything is close to identical, it's just the cosmetic outsides that float our boat............TM need to take a hint & knock one out, it'd sell out.

People saying they'd buy one online and actually doing so are two very different things-People do the same for every new gun that's released. 

If it would sell in big numbers there would be multiple versions on the market from the big manufacturers, they do their research, they know their target audience. 

Whenever a 'what gun do you want to be made' or similar thread comes along, very rarely do you see mentions of the Browning and that's because the majority of airsofters aren't interested in the older stuff. The more modern and up to date stuff is what sells and as a result what the big brands make most of. 

If there was a real demand then someone would've tapped into that. 

For years people were raving on about wanting an m&p, FNX, USP etc from TM, the Browning isn't something that had that same pull and demand. It's a shame because personally I quite like it but I would never expect someone like TM to bother producing it

 

[Tackle]

same could be said for the L1A1, serious amount of interest, 2 companies (?) have made them, neither of which have been perfect, & neither what you would call cheap either, yet the limited production runs always sell out.

bit like the old joke, **** made the toilet seat, but it took **** to actually put a hole in it ?

Bout time TM stepped up & gave us the definitive recoil SLR.

I've resisted TM recoils, mainly cos their nearly all AR platforms in an already overpopulated AR market, but an old skool 7.62 platform recoil, something long, slr, g3, m14, I'd be all over that like a tramp on chips lol.

 

[Davegolf]

Mmm chips