3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Ouch,
March 3, 2004 Bryce (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soft Air Firepower Thunder Spring Powered Pistol, Black (Sports)
this gun hurts like hell; if u want a thirty dollar pistol, this is the one to get
Ok...,
February 22, 2006 A Kid's Review
I think this is the pistol I have, anyway, this gun is a good gun for starters. It's pretty acurate, but its also pretty heavy. The magazine that with mine was pretty hard to load without a speed loader, so if you want this I really do suggest getting a speed loader.
Cool gun that doesn't shoot as well as it should,
January 17, 2006 SuperGnome (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
**Palco is actually a distributer, not a manufacturer. This gun is actually an HFC M9 repackaged as the Palco Thunder**
I picked this gun up at a local retailer because I wanted another airsoft pistol, and especially a heavyweight.
**Build**
When I got it home I was pretty excited because of the abundance of metal parts (take down lever (above and in front of the trigger that lets you remove the barrel), the trigger, the safety, hammer, magazine). The safety will NOT wear out or break as it's metal on metal with part of the trigger assembly. The magazines are well constructed with two different ways to load (from the top like usual mags of this type, but there's also an overflow hole at the bottom you can just pour the bb's right into). The gun did rattle quite a bit, but I added a plastic shim alongside the trigger assembly and that helped quite a bit. The mags do rattle a bit as well, but attempts to solve that caused misfeeds, but a little...Read more
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