Sensory overload
Originally Posted by
blooregard
Interesting, I've never owned one but I am familiar with it. Why do you find them so disappointing?
The real thing is actually heavier when fully loaded (although it gets lighter as you shoot it heh heh... )
It's the whole thing - Seven rounds in the mag, jack one into the chamber, lock the slide, eject the mag and load an extra round to give you eight shots - that's what they mean by 'locked and loaded'. There is nothing to match the a heavy twisting recoil, muzzle flash, noise and smell, not to mention the occasional hot case down your neck (or scrabbling about for your spent boxer primed cases... )
Look up Massad Ayoob on YouTube if you want to see some real hangun action and see what I mean - he wrote 'In the Gravest Extreme'.
On a sensory level, the CO2 replica is simply underwhelming by comparison.
El-bow, the Spanish Archer