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G & G ARMAMENT PCC45
AT AIRSOFT ACTION WE ARE VERY HONOURED TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST “ NAMES ” IN THE GLOBAL AIRSOFT INDUSTRY AND EVERY SO OFTEN THAT MEANS THAT WE GET TO TAKE A “ FIRST LOOK ” AT NEW MODELS FROM SOURCE . THIS MONTH OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT G & G HAVE ENTRUSTED US TO DO THIS WITH THEIR VERY LATEST 2021 MODEL AND SENT BILL AN EVALUATION SAMPLE OF THEIR NEW PCC45 ALL THE WAY FROM TAIWAN !
As we move further into the beginning of a new
year and as our friends in the Far East celebrate their own start to the “ Year of the Ox ”, we are all living in a slightly uncertain world but one thing that I can be certain of , is that G & G Armament will continue to launch more new AEG and GBB models , along with a host of parts and accessories !
Throughout the duration of the global pandemic I have been in close and direct contact with Rick at G & G HQ in Taiwan and although business is always business , my personal friendship with him has , much
I hope due to a shared sense of humour , grown by leaps and bounds . It ’ s strange isn ’ t it , that somehow our communication with others via video meetings and regular messaging has led in some cases to us getting to know others better and finding out that our shared passion for airsoft is just one of the many things that we share !
It ’ s become very important to me personally - and to Airsoft Action as an entity - that we need to spend more time with the companies and the wonderful individuals who work within them and make them flourish , to give all of our readers a better understanding of how the “ mighty machine ” really works behind the scenes and Rick has most certainly helped me , on behalf of course of Mr Lau and the G & G team as a whole , to understand more about G & G and we hope that we may share this with you more as the year moves forward .
Airsoft is fundamentally based on the principles of trust , integrity and honour and that also happens to be a great foundation for both friendships and mutual respect , so when Rick asked me at the back end of 2020 if I would like to be one of the first to physically see , and indeed test , the new PCC45 AEG I was both pleased and a little apprehensive in accepting this kind offer . Pleased of course , that goes without saying but also a little nervous at the possibility of finding a problem with a product I was being entrusted with by someone I trusted and respected as a friend .
It may surprise some of you that are a little cynical about the review process , that a good tester takes their role very seriously indeed ! Unlike some , we do not do this for our own self-aggrandisement but because we love airsoft , every single part of it ! We want to see and understand the advances that are being made every day in the airsoft industry and to play our part in it ; this is not about “ me ” but about “ us ” and , most importantly , about the AEGs , GBBs , accessories and equipment we all rely on from the manufacturers we trust .
As it turns out and given my knowledge of the quality and performance of recent G & G releases , I should not have been worried , as the PCC45 has turned out to be one awesome AEG , a style that most will love but some ( strange people !) will not but one which carries forward the positive advances that G & G have made in recent years in a whole new way !
PCCs , WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR ?
The idea of a Pistol Calibre Carbine is far from new and indeed G & G have ruled the roost with their excellent ARP9 for quite some time . As you will see from our “ Red Cell PDW ” report this month , the line between a PCC and a PDW is hair-thin but at the end of the day , a short carbine that uses a “ pistol calibre ” magazine differentiates the placement and categorisation of the models . Whilst virtually any super-short carbine can be crowbarred in to the PDW category , it ’ s only those models that use a “ pistol calibre ” magazine than can enter the hallowed halls of the PCC .
And although G & G have had undoubted ( read HUGE !) success with the ARP9 , this has not stopped them taking things forward and as usual , they have done this in their own special way to create a “. 45 ” model to go alongside the “ 9mm ”!
It would have been easy for them to simply redesign the ARP9 a little and slap a big old UMP-like “. 45 ” mag into it - and many would have shaken their heads sadly and said “ oh , another AR ” and to be honest , I would have been amongst them . But no ! As usual G & G decided to do things THEIR way and rather than go with an existing design in a different “ calibre ”, they threw that all to one side and created something entirely , refreshingly new , something that
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