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Ab heute stell ich, wenn ich sie bekomme, die Renegade Recoon News rein.********News Nummero 2 ********Inside: New Marushin M1887 Terminator 2 gas shotgun impressions, Talk on the streetRenegade Recon Email Exclusive ** From the editor **Big thanks to all of those subscribers who sent in feedback about our first RR Email Update. It was all supportive and encouraging so here we come with the second RR Email Update! It?s been hectic here at Renegade Recon HQ with efforts to build up the site on side of so many other things. I have to apologize the delay with Marui G18C AEG review that we?ve been working on. The review has grown in detail to such extend that we needed another week to work on to complete the four part review ? having taken the additional time we are confident it answers all the questions people have been having about this pistol. I have piece of good news for you all and that is that we have assigned reporter to biggest outdoors and gun fair in United States, the SHOT Show 2005, and will be reporting in detail from the show. I?ll let it remain surprise who that reporter is!Michael ?BD?
Editor, callsign admin Marushin M1887 Terminator 2 gas shotgun impressionsMarushin recently released the officially licensed airsoft shotgun M1887 based on the 1991 movie Terminator 2, which featured Arnold Schwarzenegger. That generation who grow up with Terminator movies will probably recall the movie cover that features Arnold wearing biker leather jacket and sitting on motorcycle holding the shotgun cockily. Who could forget the scene where Arnold cocks the shotgun in one single-handed action. That wasn?t apparently easy: ?Cameron reveals how Schwarzenegger repeatedly brained Eddie Furlong with the shotgun when attempting his photogenic spin-reload. "T-2: On The Set" is kind enough to provide footage. ? Adam-Troy ?So having put that mandatory movie scene out of the way I must say this shotgun is even more cool to use than what it looks like in the movie. You get five well-built shotgun shells with the M1887 Terminator 2 shotgun and they are loaded inside in intriguing way. One-by-one they are pushed inside the chamber that has shell locking position. Once locked in position you push the shell so that it?s moved inside the lower barrel of the shotgun. Then you load the next and so forth. Perhaps sounding simple in concept, but more difficult to realize in the gun. The system is, however, working well without malfunctions or other annoying mechanism related issues and its pleasure to operate this shotgun. Each reloading action sees the shell ejecting in glorious arch and with beautiful metallic cocking sound. You?ll love this mechanism action if you are into this type of weaponry. One of the great features of this shotgun is that it uses the 8mm BB that we are already used to see from Marushin. This heavy 8mm BB fits well with the shotgun theme and indeed the retailer that I bought this gun from warned me about the power of the gun. I guess I have had my brain exposed to way too movies, so I started to play around with idea to customize this shotgun with Spec Ops type paintjob and maybe sawing off some of the barrel. It would be great to pack for ?close encounters? in best Hollywood movie style (I know ? hardly practical but looks cool).Materials used for this M1887 shotgun are plastics and metal. The metals are not heavy weight type but more lighter type and ?wood? furniture are the parts that are made of plastic.Do you want to see full-size review with photos? If you do please email me because right now there is way too much on the plate and we have to limit what features we do. Enough emails will see it going to the full review list?Talk on the streetWe are talking about Marushin so let?s stay on that manufacturer a little longer while we are at it. Marushin recently announced M1 Garand Gas Blowback rifle that took even Japanese by surprise. I bet guys at Smokey?s are pulling their hair off as we speak. The price of Marushin is almost three times lower than Smokey?s plus it has blowback while Smokey?s is fixed slide type. The Japanese retailers I?ve had chance to speak with are expecting Smokey?s not to do well with this release. Bad luck? Maybe?Hudson M21?what can we tell you? while veteran people on this hobby still remain bit skeptical of the release or its prospects for success there is a couple major surprises on store. Is Hudson moving to a surprising direction? Keep watching the site for details!

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********News number 3*********** From the editor **I hope you?ve been enjoying our news from SHOT Show 2005. Unfortunately our people at the show were not exactly allowed to take photographs despite our best efforts as SHOT Show organizers have imposed strict control over photography and media presence. Some of the SHOT Show reports are yet to be published and we hope to bring them online gradually.
Since this small column presents my chance to do some ranting I have to ask what Systema and especially G&G were thinking in taking their guns to SHOT Show 2005, the biggest outdoor and gun fair in United States. Their products are replicas, or in other words knock offs of real guns and as we now know companies like H&K went ballistic seeing airsoft ?versions? of their XM8 and UMP series. It is understandable that the SHOT Show 2005 represents big biz op for airsoft manufacturers too given the size of the show, but none of the other Japanese companies (besides Systema) ever put visible booth in SHOT Show even as they have been going there in droves for many many years.
If this trend continues, unlicensed airsoft gun manufacturers displaying their wares openly in SHOT Show, I?m predicting bigger troubles in the horizon. Folks, common sense please!
Michael ?BD?
Editor, callsign admin Big Japan Airsoft Releases. What?s going on?It?s been a while to seen major new model from Japanese airsoft manufacturers. With G&G pushing their new AEG models and few others announcing impressive big gun projects (like GB-Tech?s heavy weapon projects) it?s odd that there isn?t major releases coming from Japan. What?s going on? Here?s a low down how things stand as of Feb 2005. TOP MP40
A apparently never-ending project that is becoming a source of frustration for many Japanese who?ve been waiting for affordable and skirmashable MP40 airsoft gun. Some custom shops sniffed the problems that TOP has been having with this release and created their own custom AEGs based on Marui gearbox. TOP has been pushing for release since December, January and now February. There were even big ads appearing in the magazines. All has went quiet since and there is no fixed date as of writing this. Some Japanese retailers that I had chance to talk with were even predicting mid-2005 as far back as December 2004 when TOP started to indicate January release. Verdict: Frustration is the key word. KSC HK33
KSC has been shifting the release time quietly and skillfully. It?s quite strange because what we?ve seen they had perfectly working model as early as August 2004. Then again this is first direct competition AEG against Marui in Japan , so there might be some powerplay behind the scenes. Verdict: Apparently ready, what?s taking so long?Smokey?s M1 Garand
On-off project of many years that is coming out soon, hopefully. Marushin stabbed in the back with intention or not by announcing their ?under-development? M1 GBB just on the eve of the release. Verdict: Coming out hopefully soon, but Smokey?s was shot in the back by Marushin. Marushin M1 Garand
This was a surprising airsoft release announcement. I feel almost bad to add this right after Smokey?s, but they?ve announced it so it has to be included. Nothing fixed when it comes to release time or price meaning possible lengthy waiting period! Verdict: Promises a lot, but how long we got to wait?Tokyo Marui M14
Marui has been informing pretty well about the release date of their M14 AEG even if it might appear otherwise. They handed out few ?warnings? that if they can?t make it by Christmas 2004 the next date will be around mid 2005. Recently Marui said that ready model will be finally shown on May. Verdict: Delayed slightly, but will be released in all likelihood. Rumors of cancellation completely unfounded. Systema MP5 PTW series
Little is expected at the moment, but Systema has been speaking about this release for a year or so. Verdict: UnknownHudson M21
Out of the somewhat frustrating group Hudson appears to made lot of progress for a difficult project like theirs.
Preview now online: http://www.renegaderecon.com/article_details.php?id=78Verdict: Surprise package of this group.All of the above mentioned releases are expected to come out on 2005, but at the same time TOP MP40, Smokey?s M1 Garand and KSC HK33 have all been seriously delayed in comparison with the original plans. It just goes to remind how difficult it is to manufacture and release complete airsoft gun and it will be hats off to the newcomers if they can stay in their original release schedules. As it is, it's almost too easy to show dummy models and fancy posters to excited airsoft hobbyists, so it is always refreshing if someone comes up quickly with the actual release.

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 ***********Fortsetzung von News 3**********So will 2005 be so good year for releases as it looks like? Hopefully yes or otherwise it will be the most frustrating ever. Western Arms is coming out with two interesting gas blowback pistols on 02/19/05. We?ll try to give you more detailed report on these at next RR Email Update. Uups, we almost forgot to tell you. If you haven't entered our website mini-contest for LayLax/ANGS collaboration AN/PEQ-2 Limited Edition go do that before the end of the month. You have nothing to lose!

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Und wieder gibt es News von den Jungs von RenegadeReccon.********News Nr.4********
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Smokey?s Gun Factory M1 Garand first impressionsRenegade Recon Email Exclusive The Smokey M1 Garand rifle D-Day was delayed by few days, but at last we received our Smokey?s M1 Garand rifle on yesterday evening. We bring you here our first impressions of the very first purpose-built airsoft M1 Garand rifle. It took several years for Smokey?s Gun Factory to convert idea of airsoft functional M1 Garand gas rifle to a reality. In process they had many difficult obstacles to overcome such as the operating system and keeping the cost of the rifle in reasonable level. Real M1 Garand?s furniture is mostly from wood and there is only two ways to replicate it in the airsoft versions. One is to replace the furniture with plastic replica and the other is to use real wood (either reproduced or real gun stock). Plastic is difficult option for smaller manufacturers like Smokey?s because it takes specific machinery and skill, so we usually see this only from major manufacturers like Maruzen or Marui. In Smokey?s M1 Garand rifle one of the main features is real wood furniture, but use of real wood always means high cost and this is something that has been unavoidable in this Smokey?s creation dubbed the ?Smokeyfield Armory M1 Garand? (what a funny fellows at SGF?). The real M1 Garand is mostly
from wood with top receiver and barrel being metal, so even the Hudson?s mass produced model gun M1 Garand commands respectable price tag. In Smokeyfield version the wooden parts are well finished and real oil-finished walnut has been used. Even with the use of wooden and metal parts the gun weight only 3kgs in total, which is somewhat light for M1 Garand rifle. It seems the receiver?s lightweight metals account for the majority of the weight difference. Barrel is, however, from steel. The assumption is that this has been made in order to make the rifle skirmashable for average airsofter who is not, honestly speaking, so used or prepared to haul heavy weaponry around. Some companies have gotten complaints of too heavy weapons (literally) such as Systema. Having explained this, it must be said that Smokey?s M1 Garand weight is ideal for airsoft gaming use and has to be considered as an advantage after all. What overseas players will say about the weight will be seen, but I fully expect Marushin's M1 Garand (if released) not be any heavier and probably lighter given Marushin's tendency to use lightweight materials such as plastics and fiberglass. For the comparison Hudson M1 Garand model gun rifle weights 3.6kgs while real M1 Garand weights 4.32kgs. The rear sight is adjustable and is steel made (by wax). The operating mechanism features rotating bolt system and dummy .30-06 cartridges that increase the realism a great deal. Thankfully Smokey?s designed the clip to eject like the real thing! The magazine holds 12 BBs, which is good for the realism and should please those who are looking forward to play World War II airsoft games with realistic ammo capacities. The receiver metal is Marushin like, but has realistic type markings although the ?Smokeyfield? can be noticed there. The first impression upon receival was of slight disappointment in overall realism and feel (such as the weight) considering that the Smokey?s M1 Garand costs a hefty 149,310 Yen including tax. The gun is of solid construction without wobbling parts and the weight is ideal for airsofting, so from the point of gaming the rifle has been built right. Yet to be tested are the actual shooting performance and functioning of the clip ejection, so I will at least return to report them on later RR updates once we?ve had to chance to test them.The rifle is delivered in neat Smokey?s carton box and comes with US Army Field Manual type instruction booklet. Oil and oil dispenser are provided with the gun along with the magazine, clip and dummy cartridges.If you would like to see full review of this rifle to appear at our site please email your vote in.

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Danke f?r die Info.Kurios ist, das ein AS-Gun, die wohl eher im RA Bereich zu Hause sein wird nicht zu schwer sein darf ....Die ewige Lamentiererei, das Holz & Stahl so teuer zum verarbeiten ist, ist im Anbetracht des Preises eine bodenlose Frechheit. RS Garand's im neuwertigen Werkszustand bekommt man um ca. ? 800,-Am allerliebsten w?re mir wenn Springfield selbst die Teile herstellen w?rde ... die h?tten die Erfahrung und die Maschienen dazu und auch die "Markings" w?ren dann korrekt.

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