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Most recent acquisitions at the top.
I've grouped my revolvers separately, although they could be placed in the springer and NBB sections.
'Rackendall' on UKAN provided the following mini-review of the TM Colt Python and kindly agreed to let me host it here.
I've had a TM Colt Python since Christmas 2004, with a six inch barrel, and I had the problem that I couldn't find any info. I went ahead and got one anyway. Hope I can be of some help.
First of all the gun looks quite plasticy, more so than the TM GBBs. I don't mind this too much, but I know some people would. Grips are rubber but are also quite plasticy, and their chunkiness compared to the rest of the gun takes quite a lot of getting used to. The adjustable back sight is quite large but this just makes it easy to use and over all gives a 'target pistol' feel... no surprises there as the python was one of the premiere target pistols of its day. (I know a guy who used to have one, but I never fired it) The gun is big compared to most GBBs, about the same size as my Desert Eagle. It doesn't weigh anyway near as much though, and there are no full metal kits available to my knowledge to beef it up though.
The (very light) cylinder swings out to the left and revolves like the real steel. This python hold 24 6mm rounds, 4 in each of the chambers. You simply open the cylinder and shove 4 BBs into each hole in the front to load. Gas (134a ONLY!!!) goes in through a hole in the base of the grip like the Marushin ones. The gun is double action, which means that it can use both trigger cocking or be hand cocked. I tend to use the latter, thumbing back the hammer. Drawing the hammer back in this way is quite jerky, much less smooth than the Tanaka .44 I have owned. Trigger pull is very light from there on. When using trigger cocking (each pull of the trigger both cocks the hammer and fires) accuracy is affected due to the longer trigger pull.
I haven't chronoed the gun, but it has about as much welly in it as a TM shotgun, maybe less, but the gun is skirmishable none the less, and I can't confirm it and it is a bit cold for gas pistols at the moment, especially when using 134a. Accuracy is fair, but I think that the fixed hop is set to too much, so the BB's go skywards at about 30-40ft. I have found that this can be compensated for reasonably, but it's still annoying. I'm not sure if they all have this problem, but I've never heard of it from anyone else. My Desert Eagle outperforms the python easily in both range and accuracy, but the python isn't awful. Just not as good. It might be best suited to urban, CQB, or really dense woodland where you fight at closer ranges.
So far I haven't found a holster for it, but I'm sure a normal adjustable thigh rig could hold a 4" one. Real steel holsters are probably better for the 6" one.
In all the Python isn't a bad gun, there are certainly worse out there. It isn't brilliant, and if you want a revolver that is quite cheap and obtainable in England I'd go for it. However, the Marushins win on the realism factor and reputably the Tanakas win on power, accuracy and build quality, though my own one had accuracy, power and mechanism problems with it.
'Wege' kindly provided some Chrono figures and a little more information.
In terms of power, the following figures were seen at 18deg C using .2g BBs and 134a gas.
on SAO : 256fps
on DAO : 269fps
The cylinder is light, so that makes the whole "spin the cylinder and then snap it shut" a lot harder, but it is able to be done with practise. ET1000 DOES kill these things, but they seem to be variable. I have seen the bb 'chamber' in one cylinder destroy itself, so it can now hold only one. Accuracy is fair at 5m by hitting in 6in circle on a sheet of A4. Still skirmishable.
For the hopup issue, if you can trade off the distance, maybe use a 'slightly' heavier bb... either WA .23s or some TM .25s?
Thanks to both for the information and to Rackendall for letting me host the information and pictures here.
This 3PSA branded, UHC manufactured Smith & Wesson replica revolver is a springer. To actuate the mechanism the hammer must be cocked each time. This is only possible by pulling the hammer back by hand (in a single action mechanism, the trigger ONLY fires the gun, it doesn't prepare it to fire).
This revolver, like the Marushin below, is a strictly accurate 6 shooter, with the BBs (6mm in this case) loaded into 'shells' which are then placed in the revolving cylinder and air is released from the reservoir (in the hand grip) to 'blow' through the shells and fire the BBs down the barrel.
This is quite a big airsoft pistol and, for a springer, not badly weighted. The rubber look grips are actually hard plastic and I prefer the look of wooden grips on the S&W revolvers, anyway, so they're not a plus in my mind.
Power is very disappointing, compared with a springer automatic, presumably because there is so much opportunity for the air to escape between the reservoir and the point at which the BB enters the barrel. The hammer is also very stiff to cock, requiring a very strong thumb or the whole hand.
On the other hand, the handling, loading, etc are a good representation of a real revolver.
Weight : 410g
Realism : ****
Quality : ***
Power : **
Accuracy : **