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Quick Enforce Tac Report & The IWA Outdoor Classics 2016 Starts Today

Dom

Enforce Tac started as a preliminary event for the IWA Outdoor Classics organised for law enforcement, military and other security organisations to provide the venue where they can meet potential suppliers for their needs. As it grew over the years, Enforce Tac became a separate restricted exhibition and conference and for this year was held from the 2nd to the 3rd of March 2016.

There are no airsoft exhibitors for this event, lest those airsoft companies offering the “training weapons” would be interested in showing up for this event. Nevertheless, there are interesting stuff that airsoft players can take notice. I can report this now before these get buried in the reports and airsoft guns and tactical gear in the next few days as Popular Airsoft starts its IWA Outdoor Classics 2016 coverage.

Seeing Holosun at EnforceTac was a big surprise. It looks like they've had enough of being the OEM manufacturer they're mostly remembered from. I have never seen their full product line on one stand so I spent quite a lot of time here. They had the regular dot, circle dot and cross reticle sights on display plus a very interesting weapon mounted flashlight which has visible green laser built into the bezel of the flashlight. Their circle dot reticle is very similar to the one used by EOTech but the projection is not holographic. Laserluchs will carry the Holosun brand in the EU and they are already selling a few sights on Amazon.de, though unfortunately, is not the full product line.

It's great to see that H&K knows different colours other than the RAL8000. The pictured 417-A2 is mostly anodized instead of painted but almost every part is coloured differently, and it still looks amazing with the skinnier handguard (but the damned thing is heavier than Kelsey's burger!) and the behold the beauty of the Hensoldt sight!

I like nice optics so next I went to the Hensoldt booth to check out the good stuff, I know it's basically Zeiss quality but still a bit expensive to stick it on an airsoft replica, although it is by far the sexiest fixed magnification scope out there.

Next up was the Aimpoint display at their distributor's booth. Here, I thought I will check out the new 3x and 6x magnifiers but I found something more interesting: a SPUHR mount for the Comp M4 and its magnifier. The mount raises the dot 30mm above rail. and as you can see it has an adjusting knob on each side to provide elevation adjustments without messing with the sight itself. The SPUHR mount's adjusting knob has a different adjusting knob on each side, one side for 5.56 and the other for 7.62. Me want one now! Of course the magnifiers are nice as well but still no pictures on the final version, the optics are still covered with that 3D printed rubbery substance.

More photos of the optics on display at Enforce Tac can be found at the Popular Airsoft Facebook Page.

That's my quick report on Enforce Tac 2016, now on to the IWA Outdoor Classics 2016 where all the airsoft and tactical goodness that we can find willbe reported here.

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