Shooter Saturday -- GEMTECH Oasis Airsoft

Yes I know it's not Saturday and yes I know it has been a very long time since the last Shooter Saturday blog post.  It just so happens that in my life I really haven't been doing anything of late with guns.  And that all changed this past week when I happened to win a contest and was gifted a new gun for Christmas.  I posted about it when I won and here is the full review of the SocomGear GEMTECH Oasis Airsoft Pistol that I won from GEMTECH's 12 days of Christmas.

I only won the gun, I had to pick up the pellets (from Walmart) and the Green Gas (from Hobby Town) before I could even fully play with the newly acquired Christmas Gift.  The GEMTECH Oasis Airsoft Pistol is based off of the Intragrally Suppressed Ruger MarkIII/MKII Pistol designed and made by GEMTECH, a Boise, ID, based company that specializes in the manufacture of Suppressors.  The airsoft version is a fully licensed and trademarked gun for SocomGear.  

The airsoft version has some serious heft to it and fells very much like the real thing (I've held the real deal at Impact Guns before) but there are definitely some huge differences. You know, besides the whole non suppressed, non-lethal part of the airsoft gun.  A lot of the weight of the gun is transferred to the magazine that doubles as a sixteen round magazine and gas chamber for the gun.  With the magazine out of the gun it feels very barrel heavy and I remember the real deal being more balanced.  There is also the whole no blow back or cocking action with the airsoft version.  With a gassed up magazine all you do is slap in the magazine and pull the trigger.  So you can't really use this one as a training stand in tool for the real deal if you wanted to do such a thing.  Doesn't mean it's not fun to shoot though.

The biggest problem I've had with the airsoft gun is getting all sixteen shots off without having to recharge the gas chamber in the middle.  I don't know if I'm just doing it wrong or I need to adjust something on the gun but it's kinda lame that when it's losing it's charge the pellets just kinda limp out after only half the pellets have been shot.  So if you were say using this in a game it would be good for a few sneaky albeit not very quiet double taps to the enemy but completely useless in a shoot out of any length.

All in all though I have to say it's pretty damn fun to play with but I don't see myself running out to join in any airsoft games with it.  And thanks definitely has go out to GEMTECH and their Facebook page staffers for doing the 12 days of Christmas.  They definitely topped off my Christmas this year.

Here's a video review of it by someone else.