Sig Pro SP2340 EBB - ArniesAirsoft

Author

mr_mich

Registered: January 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, USA
Posts: 155

Review Date: 3/4/06

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Price, low power, quiet, build quality
Cons:	Lack of realism, low power, plastic body, low accuracy

Now you guys are going to wonder why I gave this cheap EBB a 9, and I'm going to answer you off the bat by saying that for an EBB, it gets a 9/10.

First Impressions:
Let's start with the first impressions. Like all other Tokyo Marui products, it comes in a stylish box with pictures and silhouettes of the gun itself. Upon opening it you're greeted with a packet of entirely-japanese manuals, brochures of other TM products, etc. They supplied about 100 .12g bb's as well with it. Upon pulling the gun out of the packaging, I was surprised with it's weight. Obviously, as an all-plastic gun it doesn't have as much heft as a metal GBB, but it's better than you'd expect. It came with an orange tip and one "magazine", no batteries.

Further Investigation:
There is a giant seam line running along the entire gun, but that's no big deal. The gun, being $32, has very little attention paid to functional realism. There is no magazine ejection button, the decocking lever doesn't actually work, the hammer doesn't serve any purpose, and the slide doesn't stick back or rack nicely. Keep in mind I didn't expect any of these things, but if you're looking to buy a fun plinking gun, neither should you. The gun has cheap plastic molded grips that say "sig pro" and the front of the slide says "SIG SP 2340". It looks fairly convincing from a distance. There is a secondary trigger below the trigger guard, which must be depressed when you pull the trigger to fire (since there is no safety).

Preparations:
Eagerly pulling out my AA batteries, I found a way to open the battery compartment and tried to stuff them in. Wow I'm silly, this thing takes AAA's. After getting new batteries, I put them in with a bit of resistance, as they don't stay upright, making them sorta flop around until there's 2 or 3 batteries in place. There is no actual magazine release, you just pull the curved stick mag out by a little lip that protrudes. This seemed nifty, as less moving parts in such a cheap gun usually means less to go wrong. I hope that this part doesn't wear down, however, because that would render the gun or magazine useless.

Firing:
So, once I'd loaded up my little "magazine" with .12g TM precision bb's, and AAA energizers were stuck in the bottom of the grip frame, I pointed this sucker at the trashcan to shoot. A cheap, satisfying electronic whir came from the pistol as the slide rocked back and forth and a bb shot into the trashcan. Neat! I continued to rapid-fire. The rate of fire was fairly impressive for such a cheap gun. Figuring I needed to test "real field" performance, I proceeded to hide the pistol in my pants and walk down to a buddy's dorm room, shooting him in the knees when he opened it. He said he barely felt it. I later had him shoot me in the leg, and it felt like someone was throwing M&M's at me. The power is low, just what I needed. After putting up a target from mytargets.com, I shot 4 shots into it from 10' away. The results were posted above, which is pretty good for such a cheap little gun.

Quick tests:
Something that had me curious was how well-aligned the slide/outer barrel were. It was too good for such a cheap pistol. To test this, I put cheap Citadel acrylic black paint on the orange tip and fired a magazine off. Already, an orange streak on the top-right of the barrel was noticeable. Acrylic paint doesn't last at all with friction or contact of any kind, and the fact that it stayed black on most of the barrel except for the top-right shows where the slide and barrel actually make contact. I thought it was neat.

All in all? It's a great gun for what I wanted. I wanted a cheap gun that'd be fun to shoot indoors and wouldn't be too loud, too dangerous, or too expensive to maintain. Rather than get an NBB that would probably inflict bleeding or other serious bodily injury in dorm rooms, these things are a great way to spend $30 and have a lot of fun. As for uses in a real skirmish, I doubt they're worth their weight unless you're up against LPEG's and other similar weaponry. The pistol does have a fixed hop-up, although being indoors I didn't get to test the effective range of the pistol. It's a lot of fun to plink around with, shoot indoors, or keep squirrels away with (as warning shots, don't shoot them directly of course). Don't expect it to be winning you any games or saving your rear as a backup in a skirmish, unless everyone's using springers or Well/CYMA guns. A fun buy for $30, I'd recommend it to anyone looking for an indoor non-skirmish solution as I was.