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UHC Neonfire Heavy Weight US Military M9 Two-Tone
UA 958 BSH

• Modeled After: M9 (Beretta 92F)
• Hop-Up: .12 / .2g 6mm BBs
• Lowest Advertised: 280 / 210 FPS / 100ft Range
• Purchased from ShortyUSA for $20 +$8 Shipped

Range
Accuracy
Weight
Balance
Action

The UHC Heavy M9 series is a cheap gun that thinks it’s an expensive one, and has the performance to back it up.

This is a very detailed and attractive looking Beretta. It features trademarks (fake ones at least) and realistic engravings on the slide. Most of the gun is cheaper feeling plastic, but it feels solid and good in the hand for the most part, save for the slide and weight issues. The trigger is double action and will cycle the hammer, but not fire. This M9 has one functional safety, near the right thumb.

Touted as a “Heavy Weight” model, the UHC M9 weighs in at about as much as some top-end spring pistols, however, most of this heft seems to be in the back-end – the barrel is awfully neglected. The gun has weight, but not much balance. It’s still a noticeable upgrade.

Magazine capacity is a manually loaded 22 rounds, about as high a capacity as you’ll get for a pistol. As with all these similar magazines, however, it’s going to be quite difficult to get those BBs shoved in there towards the end.

Oddly, the most unsatisfying aspect of this gun is the action. Racking the slide is a very not-smooth and plasticy-feeling process. Sorry for my lack of quality adjectives here, but it just sort of sucks. Although the gun has an open ejection port, it seems to leave the slide very feeble in it’s construction. Every time you cock this pistol it feels like a little plastic piece somewhere inside is liable to just fall out. Meh.

Once you get over the chunky slide action, pure bliss awaits. The trigger pull is very short and nice, and the actual shooting performance is incredible for a gun at this price. It’s significantly better than the UTG MK23, and rivals the performance (although not as consistently) of the ultra grade SW1911, which was 40 bucks more.

The UHC Heavy M9 obviously has some quality internals and a nice hop-up system. For accuracy, .2g BBs are definitely recommended. The look and performance of this gun is great – so people watching you use it will be impressed. It’s only once you actually use the gun that you’ll notice the minor annoyances… but when it shoots as well as it does, you can’t complain.

~ by Benjamin on March 13, 2009.

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