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which amounted to 27 rounds, and I observed again is completely subjective from person to A few additional points I took away from
a steady reading of 327 feet per second, with person, but I really liked it. It was a little front the range test. Firstly, on each run I managed
a maximum of 4 feet per second variance in heavy, and she’s not the lightest sidearm you to fire the last round without running out of
between shots. I did notice that towards the last could buy, but holding target for extended gas. This was at room temperature, and I left
3 shots the fps dropped a little further than this, periods wasn’t exhausting, and the slim profile approximately 1 second between each shot.
as the magazines gas reserves were obviously felt great. All in all I really liked it, and the Those sort of conditions are not typical of a
running low. The magazine is actually very slim responsiveness coupled with that snappy skirmish, so I imagine that in normal conditions
in profile, and so it doesn’t hold as much gas recoil had me grinning from ear to ear. you would not always be able to completely
as the typical GBB magazine you are probably Lastly, we had to test the accuracy, which finish the magazine before having to re-gas.
more accustomed to. I actually had to check through the nature of a pistol, also tests the Secondly, and completely contradictory to my
that it was the double stack magazine it spoke shooter. I don’t like that aspect as I always last statement, the R28 is actually gas efficient.
of in the leaflet, but it genuinely was, and it did try to give an unbiased and honest review, so Visually, the magazine looks to be around half
indeed hold 27 rounds. Just to point out, for this human interference detracts from that a little, of the internal volume of say a glock magazine,
test I’m using an indoor 25 meter range at room nevertheless, I gave it my best. I set 2 targets probably less than half, so after seeing it I was
temperature, so the sort of results I’m seeing up, one at 10 meters, and one at 25 meters, quite shocked that I managed to finish each mag.
are applicable to an indoor site, or perhaps a both being an A4 sized target. At 10 meters
woodland site on 1 of the 4 hot days of the year I dumped a full mag, and with the exception
that we have here in the UK. of one round, all of them landed on target. I SUMMARY
Next was just to get a feel for her, so I sent discounted a couple of flyers and achieved an Let me tell you why I find the R28 so surprising…
a few rounds down range at the backstop. The average 8” grouping. Again, much better than Not only does it handle extremely well, it’s
recoil was not what I expected, and actually I expected. At 25 meters I dialled in the hopup accurate, insanely fun to shoot, but above all, it
very snappy, and very strong. Primarily, I use and repeated the test. As you would expect I costs less than £60. Now I’m really struggling to
a CO2 sidearm, and I’m used to that short was less successful, hitting the target 15 times get my head around that, because I don’t think
sharp shock you get from a CO2 blowback, out of 27, so a little better than 50%, and to be I’ve ever bought a pistol for that sort of price
but the R28 was incredibly similar, and very fair when I missed it wasn’t by a huge amount. that is so well built that handles quite like this
surprising. I touched earlier on the fact that I swapped the target for an A3 size, and went thing does. During the course of the review, and
the trigger was light and didn’t require much again. Shockingly I only missed one round, so having some fun with it before and afterwards
movement to cycle the pistol, but it wasn’t that’s around a 96% success rate, which was of course, I put around 1200 rounds through it.
until this point of the test that I realised just far better than I had expected. All of the above That’s 45 mags worth, with zero malfunctions,
how responsive the trigger is. The break tests were made easier with the tritium sites, no paint wear, and no breakages, for less than
point seemed to kick in very early, which can as the shooting range is designed to have a £60! I’m stunned! I’m also told that the R28 will
only be a good thing, right? And lastly was lower light level at the shooters end, and more accept Nuprol Raven 1911 gas magazines, so you
the weight, balance, and handling. Now this light at the target end. shouldn't ever have a problem sourcing them.

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■ Colours: Dark Earth or Black Grey
■ Weight: 975 g
■ Length: 230mm
■ Length of internal barrel: 115mm
■ Magazine capacity: 25 BBs
■ Magazine type: Green Gas
■ Muzzle energy: 0,95 J
■ Warranty period: 6 months
■ Blowback: Yes
■ Hop up: Adjustable

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