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6MM TRAINING: RAVEN
correct targeting location you can make your shot. Remaining
“potential threat” focused allows you to take in and process
more information during an encounter and act accordingly.
Simply put, an RDS will potentially allow you to stay more
situationally aware, letting you keep an eye on potential
threats rather that getting “tunnel vision” on a single target
point. In a fighting situation this means that you can be aware
of what is going on around you better, whilst when shooting
for competition you can already have your next target in your
peripheral vision ready for transition! I believe it’s easy to see
why many shooters in the real world, even law enforcement
professionals, are moving to pistols with the RDS!
But I digress, so it’s back to the “6mm” side! The new
RAVEN pistols with the RDS are great; the pistol slides have
been designed specifically to accommodate the RDS. As well
as the new slide modification both front and rear “iron sights”
have also been given a facelift, both to work efficiently with
the RDS, and to add fibre-optics to the mix. The RDS is easily
controlled from two push buttons on either side of the frame,
and comes with a handy tool to make adjustments to windage
and elevation (Up/Down, Left/Right), so that you can have
your pistol shooting exactly where you want it to.
All the RAVEN pistols are powered by Green Gas from the
box and chrono iro 0.78 Joule/290FPS on a .20g RZR BB. All
models have a great recoil impulse, even more so when you
use the included CO2 conversion parts to run this pistol on a
CO2 bulb, although you will need to buy the CO2 magazine
separately as an accessory. In practical terms you will need to
look at your holster for the new models with the RDS, but I
found my usual models work just fine.
So the RAVEN range of pistols has grown yet again, and if
you total up the new RDS models with the new Hydro-Dipped
colour combinations that gives a whopping 63 extra models in
total, which is one hell of a statement from any manufacturer!
Initially I was a little taken aback by the pink (VERY PINK!)
models but commercially these are a sensible step, in line with
the market for both real and replica, and the RAVEN sales team
tell me that all the lines are selling fast!
Basically with the new RAVEN models the guys have taken
some already tried and tested designs which sell at a sensible
price, and added even more to the individual platforms.
They’ve also given us more to choose from in how we want our
personal pistol to look, feel, and perform and that to me is a
yet another massively positive step forward when it comes to
training.
I know that there are further plans in the mill for even more
to happen with all the pistol ranges offered by
NUPROL, and as always I’ll say “watch this space”
as I’ll be covering them off as soon as I know
about them!
For more information on the RAVEN range
of 6mm BB handguns please head on over to
https://nuprol.com/raven
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