Umarex T4E Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 .43 Caliber Training Pistol Paintball Gun Marker

This is a great replica/pellet gun. Literally feels and looks like a real gun, I purchased the quick peirce magazine because I don't like the idea of fumbling around with a hex key in a defense situation. I am loading this 3 and 3, glass breakers, steel kinetic rounds, and pepper balls for less lethal home defense option. If you hit someone in the face with a round it would definitely stun someone. Good value!

I'm a former Marine so guns are my thing but this sets the bar for an exemplary non lethal firearm. It's even better than I imagined it would be and you can fire .43 pepper rounds through it. Perfect for my wife! It is accurate and powerful for what it is. If you are looking for a pepperball gun stay away from the 500 dollar plastic pieces of garbage. This is the product you are looking for!

I have an real M&P 9 M2.0 and this one is very very close to it. It models after the full size without the thumb safety. I loaded it with a couple of C02 cartridges and some metal balls and gave it a good go.Sound isn't that loud. It sounds like a muffled fire, maybe quarter of the sound of open air. It's enough that it fooled my neighbor and she is an avid shooter. Blowback is nothing. There is a little bit, especially on a new C02 cartidge but it decreases.And speaking of C02, I got off about 20-30 rounds before the degredation was significant enough for me to consider replacing it. By round 40 the pressure wasn't enough to reset the barrel and I had to do it manually to use the rest of the C02.The cartrige was old (from my other painball gun) though, so others might get better performance. I order the high-grade cartridges so maybe I will get better performance, but 20-30 is good. That's 24 solid rounds on one cartridge.Now for the bad. Well, for the okay.Big drawback is that you have to walk around with the hex key to change the C02. That is my biggest complaint. Every other paintball gun I owned, even the BB guns when I was younger, all had a turn switch built in. You put in the cartridge, turn the switch, and you're good to go.This? If you forget or lose the hex key your day is done until you get it.That would be the only thing I'd change. At the end of the mag is a sliding cover for the screw. I might have made it a bit thicker and used an actual turn switch and used the cover to conceal it, and it would still look like a replica.Other than that, there is only one thing to be aware of. Not really a complaint though. Just an observation.Early use the action is very consistent. For the first 15-20 rounds or so, the C02 is strong enough that barrel slides back far enough to reload and ready it for firing again, (it cocks just like a semi-automatic), but as the C02 gets weaker, you'll have to manually cock it for each shot.I guess you could hold down the pin on the slide, but that's pointless because the pressure won't be enough for the hammer to slide all the way back anyway.As you get used to it you'll be able to quickly cock and fire anyway, so it's just something to be aware of if you're going to use it for paintball or war games or something. Find a good hiding spot and don't lose your hex key between cartriges lol.All in all, it's a great gun, and yes, as the title says, a good training pistol.Just remember to buy a cleaning kit with cleaning rounds. This came with a brush, but if you really want to take care of it spend a couple extra bucks and buy a cleaning kit, preferably one with oil drops.Also, this is good for home defense, which is why I bought this one. It does fire .43 cal pepper balls.I may buy a second for recreation though because I will be using pepper balls in this one. Or I may just buy an extra magazine for it and clean the barrel between uses. Last thing I want is to tag some poor opponent and there's powder residue from the pepper balls. They're gonna have a bad day. lol

So, I've had several of Umarex's different models, and I really like them as a company. In particular, their .43/.50 calibers offer amazingly realistic models to their real-world counterparts. Only an expert would be able to tell the difference between this and the real thing short of dropping the mag or firing a shot. It also works perfectly with any holsters, accessories, etc made for the original.Now, let's get to the more important point, and that's if it's worth the cost considering you can just about buy the actual firearm it's modeled after for not too much difference in price. I personally would purchase it again in a heartbeat, but I think this will just depend on what you're hoping to use it for. For a much cheaper/quieter shooting experience- for instance, a day at the range for target practice- this thing is amazing. It feels very similar to shooting the real thing with just slightly less recoil and quite a bit less noise. The biggest issue with using it for this purpose is that a 12g C02 obviously just can't come close to the power needed to fire rounds at anything more than 20 yards MAX before you're going to start having a massive drop off in accuracy (and I found that to be the case using the rubber balls- due to a lack of weight- or the steel balls for the exact opposite reason). And though the ammo is indeed cheaper than 9mm rounds, it can still add up quickly if you're shooting outdoors and can't find them all. For this reason, if doing strictly target practice, I'd recommend the paint/powder versions, which while not reuseable, the cost difference more than makes up for it imho.Now, on to the second reason I can see someone wanting this over the real thing, and that's due to the obvious fact that this thing can no joke make for a VERY REAL defense weapon without having to worry about being off target and accidentally hitting a family member through the drywall in your house, or simply just not wanting to have the potentially serious side effects of being unfortunate enough to have to use lethal force, no matter what the situation that required it. And for this reason alone, I would HIGHLY recommend this weapon. To keep it simple, if the sight of the gun alone isn't enough to stop most would be attackers, I guarantee one of the pepper rounds will certainly get the job done 99% of the time, even if your aim isn't perfect (or all that close even for that matter lol). And worse case scenario for any innocent bystanders who might come into contact with it, they'll be uncomfortable, but they'll be alive. And at the end of the day, isn't that the whole point of having a weapon for self-defense? To keep your loved ones alive. This will definitely make that a much more likely outcome should you ever end up in a situation that would call for the use of something similar, and to me, that's easily worth $200.For those curious the type of force this shoots with, I have pictures of the damage/penetration power using the various types of ammo available at varying distances, and hopefully the pictures will get approved to be uploaded with the review shortly!