Frag Out! Magazine
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Shooting – shock. FIRST one: trigger control. We ex- pected something more like grenade launcher and it turn out that trigger works like in the custom Glock. Nice, smooth without unnecessary force. Recoil. Off course there is one. It does not break your hand, bend you elbow to the other side, does not kick handgun out of your hands but you can feel this cannon. You can fire from this monster without bad experience and what's more – you can to it accurately. We can get grouping like 12-15 centimeters from distance of 22- 23 meters. Certainly if we train we can do better but we have to admit that Desert Eagle is pretty accurate and even easy to control while shooting. Easy enough that you can fire only with one hand and hit the target. Want some Max Payne or Lara Croft style shooting – you can fire two Desert Eagles at the same time and hit the target. In the figure but still... What is surprising – turns out that this monster is very responsive for limp wrist effect. Maybe it was because weapon was brand new and completely not break-in. but it happened to be out of battery (2-3 mm). Simple push to the back and slide move forward properly. Disassembling the weapon requires some practice, but is not over-complicated. We saw the instructional video on YoutTube and work well. conclUSIon Despite enormous popularity in all kinds of action movies (in the need of one there were created shoot- ing „blanks", one made by Retay Eagle in 9mm PAK caliber and produced by Bruni Combat that fires 8mm PAK ammunition) and also video games where that powerful handgun that fires also powerful ammunition is weapon of main character as weapon for THE real man, truth is little different. It is a sport pistol for match… Using it for real combat purposes would be little nonsense. First of all – dimensions, secondly – powerful ammunition with huge recoil, loud bang and muzzle flash, thirdly small amount of ammunition in the magazine. Additionally, pre- v i o u s versions had problems with reliabil- ity. All those features decide t h at none of the military or police units will ever consider Desert Eagle as a service weapon, what is more – to what purpos- es? Currently, so wide spectrum of ammunition in more popular caliber as 9 mm Parabellum or .45 ACP is available, providing sufficient ac- curacy on short distances and at the same time in modern magazines will be more ammuni- tion than in the Desert Eagle so its' use would lack of sense. In the armories of some special unit for exam- ple Polish GROM there are (or were) single units of that weapon, but rather as samples and nobody seemed to think of using them in real combat operation. For protection? There are some crazy people who would like to carry that big block around with them but this is absolutely overkill. Big, heavy and unwieldy… It supposed to scary just by appearance ? Rather not… Why you would need such a gun? Response is simple – just for „having and owning". There are people buying "Siamese" Colts so why not buy Desert Eagle when you can afford that and fell the need? Undoubtedly everything in that handgun makes big impression – look, weight, construction and effects that companies the firing that monster. www.fragoutmag.com