RED CELL OTHER GBB PISTOLS
RED CELL COMIN’ AROUND AGAIN!
IT’S TIME AGAIN TO LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE MODELS THAT RED CELL CHECKED OUT FIRST IN ISSUE 121, AND TIME HAS REALLY FLOWN BY SINCE THEN, SO IT’S TIME FOR THE CREW TO GET TOGETHER VIRTUALLY TO UPDATE THEIR FINDINGS, THIS TIME INCLUDING SOME OF OUR NEWER “CELL” MEMBERS IN THE MIX AS WELL!
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ime it does fly on by and I can’t believe that it was way back in 2020 when we first looked at the “OTHER GBB PISTOLS” category! The Red Cell program had really flourished during that time, with all members having triple figures of AEGs and GBBs to reference, and in turn passing that information on to you! It is a rolling program, and as we promised at the outset we will continue to document the performance and durability of those models we first looked at, whilst continually adding new, globally popular models to the mix… sadly, as you’ll read when you get into the meat of things, not all of them have stood up to the pace of testing, and it’s sending the AA Tech’ers down some real rabbit holes in search of solutions… some say that “we break ‘em so you don’t have to” whereas WE say “we break ‘em and find a fix so you can keep on using ‘em!” “Replica military models” are still amongst the
most popular AEGs and GBBs that we all buy, but it’s incredibly interesting to see new designs hitting the market, concepts drawn up by airsoft manufacturers themselves. Models like the G&G Armament Piranha Mk1, the AAP-01, and the WE Galaxy are far from “military” but that’s not to say that they’re not righteous 6mm creations! I don’t know about all of you but I’ve certainly been spending more time than usual with my handgun collection in the past couple of years, and even while stuck at home I made good use of my “home range”; you only need about 20-30 feet, your eyepro, some BBs and gas, and some targets set into a solid backstop, and you’re good to go! I do have neighbours, but they’re all used to seeing me “out back” with AEGs and GBBs as I’ve taken time to speak with them and “educate” them that what they see me shooting are “6mm BB replicas, and indeed these days, especially with some of the new “non-
“IT IS A ROLLING PROGRAM, AND AS WE PROMISED AT THE OUTSET WE WILL CONTINUE TO DOCUMENT THE PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY OF THOSE MODELS WE FIRST LOOKED AT, WHILST CONTINUALLY ADDING NEW, GLOBALLY POPULAR MODELS TO THE MIX… ” 48
JUNE 2022
