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Review Date: 19/6/07

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �20.00 | Rating: 7

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	TM compatible, inexpensive, maneuverable, decent accuracy and power, great ROF
Cons:	externals same as original, fixed hop

Well, I've had it for a while and I figure I should get a review up here of the WELL P90. I was ordering a load of LPEGs for my travesty (yeag, vic, evilbob, you know what I mean) and a few P90s were in there. To my surprise they sent me the WELL R9s instead of the old, worse version of the P90. I have since E-mailed airsplat and gotten this sorted out. The gun is available from RSOV for around $60, last time I checked. Their website has a few pictures to check out. I was pleasantly surprised, since I had been itching to see how these were.

The gun comes in a box with a picture of the P90 on it and "R9" at the top, plain and simple. Opening it up and lifting the gun out I realize that it is pretty much the same as the original. About 4 pounds, good quality plastic, a little nicer seeming though. The battery is a normal mini this time though, 8.4v. It seems to be of decent quality and charges well with the included trickle wall charger. The hicap is around 300 rounds and feeds all right, not quite as well as the TM does (it is compatible btw). Annoyingly, it doesn't empty it's load on one wind so you will need to remove it after 100-150 rounds from my counting to rewind. To my surprise, the magwell is nearly identical to the original. I was expecting it to have changed a bit. The feed mechanism is just a little more sophisticated to match the hicap instead of gravity hopper.

It still has a fixed hopup, though improved over the original. The gearbox is a plastic one and is advertised at around 250 with a .2, which seems about right. The rate of fire is very quick, close to the same as the real steel. I estimate 850-900 RPM, definitely good enough for a CQB gun. I expect this to improve noticeably with a nicer battery, but I don't have one to test with. The fixed hop is pretty decent and can land bbs in a man-sized target around 70 feet reliably, 100 feet or so total (though still pretty accurate). Compared to the original, or even in general, this is pretty good. I could see this being an excellent backup, or even a CQB primary. Apparently it is outperformed a bit by a CM030, but a pistol just isn't as fun as an SMG, is it?

Overall, the price difference over the original WELL P90 is basically a hicap, better gearbox and battery, and a more sophisticated hopup unit since I'm pretty sure it's the same body as the original. I'd say it's worth the money, though there is a bit that could be improved. Is it reccomend-able though? Yes, definitely. The 15,000 or so rounds through mine have left it in great condition so far, and I expect similar results for the future. If you want a decent budget P90, look no further.

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