 SW 5906B (Academy)
by BrownOne of the coolest looking replica pistols to come out of Academy would have to be the Airsoft SW5906B. The gun's finish is brushed aluminium, with levers, trigger and hammer all in shiny chrome. The safety is an ambidextrous hammer block, just like the real one, and the hammer has half and full cocked positions. The hammer also serves a real purpose as well; the falling hammer actuates a trip which releases the mainspring when fired. The hammer works with double action too, which, though it doesn't do anything after the first shot without cocking the mainspring again, does make it more fun to play with. The rear sights on this gun are fully adjustable and all metal, making them better than some on real airguns. They also are well deserved, as the gun is quite accurate. The clip is of the cheap tube sort(the spring and piston work up and down inside the handle grip), but does come out very easy when you press the release, so you can do that cool thing they do in the movies where you empty the clip and let it fall to the ground. The action on this is gun a bit fussy, and the slide is hard to grip because of the afore mentioned sights and safeties, but cocking the hammer first reduces your effort somewhat. My final complaint is the seemingly inherent design flaw in the sights: the rear sight is too big, so that no matter how far you adjust it, it will still always shoot high! However, I believe this may be remedied by using a small file to deepen the groove a little. (Addendum: I should mention that a day after purchasing this gun, it got so jammed, I couldn't fix it. I took it back and got another one. The same thing happened. It seems that a small piece of plastic inside the slide takes up the hammer's impact and transfers it to the spring detent, and that it keeps falling out of place. This may have been remedied in newer production runs, but caveat emptor.)
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