Mine arrived in the first batch a day before I expected it - thanks Frenchie and team! Great service as always.

Build quality is just as the hype says - brick outhouse. Awesome. Just looked too new and clean for a Ppsh somehow!! I've heard grumblings about the odd loose foresight but everything on mine was rock solid. The finish on the steel is very good - blued steel, which after a bit of scotchbrite or wire wool 'ages' really well - none of your 'painted black with watercolour' chinese tat here. If there was one thing to not like about the finish it was the woodwork -it was a little 'bright' for my taste. Others will love it, but I wanted it to scream 'old'. I've seen real ones with a multitude of different wood stocks, but I sanded down , battered it about and re-stained it in about 3 hrs and it now, imho, looks stunning. I stress this is personal taste - it came well finished out of the box. the purists will no doubt grumble that the stock is too wide at the trigger handgrip. Get a life, where else is the motor going? seriously, its a few mm, and overall it looks good and well proportioned.

I changed the Hop out on mine - real easy, took less than 5 mins with the quick breakdown. It fires consistently at 335fps, more accurately than I thought it would for a short barrel. The drum mag holds about 500 rounds in the middle - a shame they couldn't have used up all the open space around the winding mech, but the advantage is it's a cut down M4/16 mag inside, so no problem with spares. I am using an 8.4v, which gives an OK rate of fire, but if you want the real PPsh chatter you will need a 9.6v, but good luck fitting it in. I managed to really squeeze in a mini 9.6v but it was soooo tight. It would benefit from widening the hole a couple of mm, or putting in a lipo.

Skirmishing? At the end of the day it was a real blast - it screams quality at you and brought a huge grin to my face. You can run and bounce around like a big kid safe in the knowledge you ain't going to break it. It outfired some of the longer barrels around, and was a real talking point. It feels 'real weight' but it is well balanced and compact enough that you can carry it all day. Mine came with a repro sling courtesy of Airsoft World. I haven't come home from a skirmish grinning like a Cheshire cat for some time, but this did it for me.

I really recommend it - if you love WWII stuff, don't like rails, red dots, silencers, lasers, fluffy toys and furry dice hanging of your shooter... and want a big bit of steel that looks the mutts n*ts and shoots straight, buy one. Now, I want another but wifey has banned it. Hope this helps.
Posted on 07/03/2010 11:23 PM