Our blue-sky thinkers imagined design, features, and capability that did not… and could not exist. They enforce a zero-tolerance policy on visible surface defects and gaps between components in most instances, they sand, blend and mate receiver sets before they’re put together, inspecting every bolt group to ensure smooth, flawless, and reliable operation, and they scrutinise every barrel to maintain superb accuracy.Īgain, I’ll quote directly from Cobalt Kinetics: “frustration has been the soul of invention. Every receiver set and stock and handguard is selected from hundreds of other parts to fit perfectly. Now Cobalt Kinetics are one of those quiet gunmakers that have made stunning rifles and carbines based on the AR platform, but really drive things forward in a thoroughly modern and purposeful way! They believe that form should always follow function… except when that mantra overtly opposes art! At Cobalt Kinetics, as they say in their own words “sometimes we let form determine and define function”.Įvery part they make is inspected at five stages during manufacture and assembly. This in itself is genuinely exciting, but when some of these race concepts are transferred to our everyday rifles and carbines it can have a profound effect on the basest of models.Īnd one such rifle which I first saw as a concept at IWA a couple of years back is a collaboration between Taiwanese airsoft giant G&G Armament and a very specific company called Cobalt Kinetics in the USA the result is an airsoft rifle that would be equally at home in a competition or on the skirmish field! Artistry, attitude, performance! Competitive designs can differ massively from stock ones, with additional functionality and new ergonomics in place specifically to aid rapid target to target transitions and ease of operation. Whilst it is true that airsoft continues to be a game played by and large by folk running around in the woods at the weekend in their favourite insert camo of choice shooting at one another with BBs, the Practical Pistol, and indeed Three Gun side of 6mm-slinging is thriving, and to my mind it is an incredibly positive thing!Īnd, of course, this competitive focus is driving manufacturers in new and exciting directions, and whilst I do not intend to compete myself, those new designs and new directions that I’m seeing in relation to electric airsoft rifles are really exciting. I am going to come out and say that I am absolutely, 100% NOT any kind of competition, apart from perhaps when it’s a quid in the hat at my local club! That said I firmly believe that when it comes to airsoft the competition side of things has changed dramatically in the last few years, and with the recent Airsoft Surgeon event alongside the BSS in Birmingham I also believe that this shows a fabulous side of airsoft to the shooting community as a whole!
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