FEATURE
HIGHS AND LOWS
already complex bit of kit in the Systema. Now, given that
I have seen Alan at Land Warrior completely rebuild stock
Systemas to get them to work as well as possible, it’s safe
to say that playing the copy game here is probably going
to be a challenge.
So it would seem, with no one at AA having a kind
word to say for the brand and those
who were brave enough to drop
money on the brand regretting
every penny they spent, especially
since just buying the damned thing
wasn’t enough – you had to then
spend more (and more and more)
trying to at least make it function.
This is exactly what happened to our
unnamed contributor…
“Celsius CTW (remember them?)
Unfortunately, promised much and
delivered little other than aggro!
Having had loads of little “niggles” with it, including a
stripped piston and “grinding” from the gearbox, I ended
up having my Celsius completely overhauled by JD Airsoft.
I used it on just one occasion after that, with not much by
way of improvement and a trigger that Arnie would have
struggled to pull. It has been consigned to its box ever
since.”
Oddly, or perhaps not, the same contributor had a
similar experience with another gun, the ASG CZ75 SP-01
Shadow…
that point I gave up with it!”
CELCIUS ...AGAIN!
This isn’t the only time CTW was mentioned: “…for me
the worst ever experience came with the Celsius CTWs.
I was so stupid I even bought two!! The BS that came
out of the main retailer for them was astounding too.
They knew how shit they were and kept selling them and
covering up the flaws. One of my favourite examples was
when my first gun kept chopping BBs. Their reply was
“well it is shooting pretty fast (22rps over a chrono in
their shop and not especially fast) but it’s only chopping
a few so that’s pretty good really!” That whole debacle
was just such a waste of time, money and energy. Makes
me shudder just thinking about how much I lost on those
guns.”
GEAR PROBLEMS
“The Shadow was a really good pistol... until it wasn’t!
“I used it for Action Air at Double-Tap and for the
first couple of sessions it ran like a trooper ...and then
the nozzle started playing up, then the hop, then the
extended mag well fell off, then the seals on all five mags
gave out, then the trigger became loose and the final
straw was when the mag release became sticky and it
would drop mags at the most inopportune moments! At
I am now trying to think of gear problems I’ve had. It’s
a bit of a struggle, mainly because having spent years
tech-ing you either know what to avoid or how to fix any
problems. There is one, relating to Classic Army…
I began airsofting up at The Hill, near Dundee. It
was run by the redoubtable Warren Reynolds and I
went through a few guns up there before I moved on
to pastures new. At one point I had acquired a Marui
M16A2, a fine gun with which I had a lot of fun. With it I
received a Classic Army hicap magazine, amongst others.
This mag was always problematic, although it never
outright failed. During one game I was moving forward as
part of the attacking team when we came under fire from
Mr. Reynolds himself, securely dug into a small foxhole.
Using the principles of fire and movement, I advanced
firing, only to have that magazine crap out on me at the
most inappropriate moment. They say training takes over
– which would be cool if I had ever had any training –
but without missing a beat I dropped the magazine and
threw it at Warren, keeping his head down while I slapped
“ONE OF MY FAVOURITE EXAMPLES WAS WHEN MY FIRST GUN KEPT CHOPPING BBS.
THEIR REPLY WAS “WELL IT IS SHOOTING PRETTY FAST (22RPS OVER A CHRONO IN
THEIR SHOP AND NOT ESPECIALLY FAST) BUT IT’S ONLY CHOPPING A FEW SO THAT’S
PRETTY GOOD REALLY!””
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