Piper's Precision M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun

Paul Piper of Piper's Precision Products AKA P3, the creator behind the Strafer airsoft/airguns and Vulcan miniguns, has developed this wonderful replica and functional 8mm airsoft full automatic gas operated machine gun to fill a missing role in airsoft military simulation gaming - the heavy support weapon. The outer body is manufactured by Irac Inc. (www.iracinc.com) and is made of steel and aluminum for a very realistic feel and weight. The dimensions are very close to the genuine Browning M2 Heavy Machine Gun or "Ma Duce" or "Fifty-Cal" as affectionately called by U.S. Military Forces. Irac Inc. will be the official supplier for the bodies for the production P3 M2 HB airsoft guns with P3 supplying and installing the internal firing system and external box magazine. Like previous P3 engineered air weapons, the M2 relies on a tired and tested external gas system that can be CO2 or High Pressure Air or an Air Compressor (150 PSI, CFM 20-25 is likely to be the recommended for optimal performance). The M2 HB has an adjustable cyclic rate of between 100-600 RPM through the use of inline flow control and is capable of firing between 200 - 500 FPS. It utilizes a highly efficient sealed valve system which only uses gas when the weapon actually fires, so there is no loss of gas pressure like in some traditional gas blowback airsoft products which sometimes utilizes gas to operate bolts or slides. In fact, the M2 R&D prototype has been field tested at 450 FPS using .45g 8mm airsoft BB's in conjunction with a 5lb CO2 bottle and reliably cycled over 5,000-rounds without expending the entire CO2 contents. The M2 HB has a DB Customs 8mm Tightbore barrel for impressive range and accuracy and features an adjustable hop-up that allows for fine tuning of the groupings of various weight 8mm BB's for various ranges and velocities. The prototype has been tested currently to ranges as far as 80 yards with flat trajectory impacts, but further testing is needed before the maximum range is known. An electrically powered 2,000-round external box magazine shuffles 8mm BB's and is housed inside a genuine U.S. military surplus .50 ammunition box which can be placed on the ground or on a cradle mount to the left side of the receiver. The loader can reliably feed BB's no matter where the ammunition box is placed nor how the weapon is elevated or swiveled in respect to the ammunition box. It utilizes a stainless steel coil spring that connects to the weapon and shuttles the BB's internally inside. In testing, it reliably loaded BB's into the weapon over a distance of seven feet through an aluminum tube elevated over four feet over the loading system. Also a carefully engineered clutch assembly in the loader also prevents BB's from being loaded into the weapon faster than it depletes the rounds and the loader only function when the M2 is fired. Depressing the M2's trigger releases the air into an internal valve as well as completes a circuit to activate the loader. Thus every time a BB is fired a new round is shuttled into the receiver automatically. The ammunition box also conveniently stores a 20oz CO2 bottle and helps to make it look more authentic to genuine Browning M2 HB set-ups.