USP Tactical - ArniesAirsoft

Author

PenGun

Registered: October 2004
Location: Dublin
Posts: 549

Review Date: 30/7/08

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �120.00 | Rating: 8

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Price, detailing, weight, extras
Cons:	Odd outer barrel, weak recoil spring, seams, lack of upgrades

I ordered one of these from Firesupport as it was reduced to �120 from �150.
The gun comes in a suprisingly small brown cardboard box and includes the hex wrenches you need to fit the rail adaptor.
Out of the box the gun is quite good value, with a metal threaded outer barrel, adjustable sights, suppressor and rail adaptor included as standard.
However, whereas the KSC USP series is very closely modelled on the real-steel (to the point of near perfect internal parts compatability) the Tanio Koba gun is very different in design.
AFAIK real steel parts will not fit at all Sad

On this GBB the slide does not lock the outer barrel in place like a real Browning-style pistol, rather it simply slides over it and the actual cutout and barrel block look much too small for a .40 S&W cartridge.

Although the slide is nicely finished in a pleasing grey-green matte colour it has a very noticeable seam running along the centre of the upper surface.
The frame is also a nice matte heavyweight material but has some noticeable mould release marks inside the accessory rails on one side.
Metal parts are nicely finished with the adjustable sights looking like perfect copies of the LPA adjustables used on R/S guns aside from a faint casting seam along the top of the front sight.

The trigger is also good and the safety/decocker works well but seems to stick at the down postion (possible safety feature for Japanese market?) and can only be used as an actual safety when the hammer is cocked, which is unlike the perfect funtionality of the KSC series.
A point to note is that the decocker literally decocks the hammer...it doesn't block the valve, so if you bum p it, you WILL vent gas from the magazine!
The mag release is larger than the typical USP wich makes it very easy to eject spent magazines.

Accuracy is pretty decent but power is typical for a 134a gun with no internal upgrades.

Its an interesting piece that KSC really SHOULD be making, but the complete lack of upgrade parts makes it more suited to collecting rather than skirmishing with.

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mode1selektor

Registered: December 2008
Posts: 1

Review Date: 16/12/08

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �195.00 | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	add photos of the product
Cons:	difficult to find spare

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ianhaz

For the lolz

Registered: August 2005
Location: Preston, UK
Posts: 953

Review Date: 18/12/08

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: �120.00 | Rating: 4

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Excellent Build quality, includes threaded barrel, tactical raised sights and rail adapter. Very accurate and decent kick
Cons:	Impossible to source replacement parts, fragile trigger(due to poor quality metal used), quite expensive

Up untill recently, I loved my TK USPt. Its really well built with a high quality textured polymer frame (much nicer than other USPs on the market), great parkarised effect on the slide (although it is plastic, it feels slightly metalic), good weight, decent range and great accuracy for a GBB, although the trigger pull is pretty heavy which will offset the great accuracy of the pistol untill you get used to it.

Problems arise in this gun when you start looking for upgrades. Ive heard certain marui parts fit with minor modification (valves from the p226 IIRC), but for the most part there is no aftermarket support for this pistol. No metal slides, spare mags are as rare as hens teeth, and internal upgrades are basicly non existant. This ofcourse also means if something breaks, you can't replace it, and you basicly have yourself a nice looking paper weight.

What happened to mine might you ask? As i said earlier, the TK USPt is really a masterpiece externally, but sadly, my trigger was made entirely from shit and monkey metal, and snapped off (only skirmished once, cant have put more than 500 rounds through the pistol in its life time) This could be due to the rather heavy trigger pull, but it is much more likely that, as a cost saving measure, TK made a wonderful cake, then decorated it with manure. Nice one TK

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