Reviews - Sub Machine Gun

Maruzen - IMI Micro Uzi type U(Gas SMG)
by DolphiN#1

Original Maruzen Micro Uzi also reviewed, Click here...

When it comes down to it, When you are house clearing, the precision head shots from an MP5 a la SAS style swat team, are just not possible, You need to get in there, while under heavy fire and take ground, and fast, In fact in the Urban airsoft world, its doubtful wether you will have a stack of buddies lined up behind you with their guns trained on the same target you have in your sights. at best you will have your skirmish buddy covering your back, the time ticking away, and a building that you have been ordered to take, Clear and hold.

Now, most rifles, will do for house clearing, Hell! i still use a HK51, which is not exactly short, to clear houses and bust corridors with, However, they are not ideal. Pistols are a much better bet, but they dont usually have enough firepower to handle all comers. you need something inbetween a pistol and a rifle, with some serious firepower.

Now AEG's like the MP5K are good idea and can be used very well in this job, however, I find that they can be too specailised and lacking in power and accuracy when not in the close combat situatuion, something a little smaller and easily holsterable that can be kept out of the way when you are using you main rifle would be perfect.

Enter the Gas Blow back sub machine gun.

Small. light, packed with fire power and more importantly one heck of a serious BARK! 

Now in this arena we only have a few serious contenders, These are of course the KSC MAC11, the Western Arms PKF, select fire Colt 1911's, the Maruzen Mac11 and MP5K, and.. the Maruzen Micro Uzi...

Out of all these the Micro Uzi has consistantly made appearences in the DolphiN team armoury, There was of course Pedro, one of our first generation team members who used a Micro Uzi as his primary weapon for over two years before getting an aEG! There was Matt from the RoK who succedded in blowing up all of his GBB's bar his Micro Uzi.
What is it about this boxy little sub gun that has made us select it over all others? Easy, Its a great Buzz gun!

When it comes down to it a GBB SMG, needs to put down a hail of fire, Fast. In the above room clearing scenario, You usually need something that can take out the contents of a room without coming under fire yourself, One way of doing this is by sticking your gun round the door and emptying a magazine. Doing this with a lot of other guns will result in the exposure of your central body mass, or at least your arm to enemy fire, You want a miniumum of your self exposed to the occupants of the room you are clearing.  

Score one, Micro Uzi

the Micro Uzi can be fired one handed quite easily, you can easily put the gun round a corner without exposing yourself.

In the confines of a building, that may have multiple exits, sometimes if you clear a building explosively enough, making enough noise and storming through at such high speed that it looks like a living whirlwind of destruction, The Enemy may well bug out, instead of facing your fury and plastic wrath! 

Score Two! Micro Uzi

When you use the Micro, people know about it, The boxy exterior of the weapon allows for an oversize bolt and a large chamber for it to work in. As it is a full blow back gas blow back, the chamber is shot back and forth as the gun is fired. Coupling this to the extended size of the magazine, and the high flow of gas from the magazines means two things.

Lots of noise from the mechinism, and One heck of a muzzle report!! When this ugly little box is firing at full tilt, people know about it, Even out in the open, people are shocked at the amount of fire that you can put out, and just how loud it is.

Once you have located a room with the enemy in, the best way to get them out is to hit them with BB's, the more the better, and The quicker the better! You need something with one heck of a Rate of fire

Score three! Micro Uzi

The rate of fire in all of the Maruzen Sub machine gun range is horrendous, Even the now antique InterTec KG-9, which the Micro Uzi shares its internal anatomy with, (the internals of the KG9, the Micro Uzi, and the Mac11 are virtually identical except with improvements in each generation) had a stupid rate of fire. The Micro Uzi continues the family tradition by spewing out a 50 round magazine of BB's in under 2 seconds. Which as another review has stated is a cyclic rate of fire of 1500 bb's per minute. This allows you to fill a room with BB;s quite happily, The added effect of the high rate of fire, is the fact that you, or at least your hand holding the micro Uzi with, is exposed to enemy fire for a minimum amount of time! a good thing.

When engaging a target at close range, Its nice if you can hit them. thats where an accurate little gun is appreciated, When engaging multiple targets at very close range, you have two choices, Be damn quick and engage each target in turn,. or have something that will engage all of them at the same time! Shotgun loaded with buck shot? or..

Score Four! Micro Uzi!

Unlike some other GBB SMG's, the Micro Uzi, has a CONE of fire, when fired in full auto. This translates to multiple targets hit at close range, For example when clearing a room a simple sweep with the likes of KSC MAC11 will result in a neat straight line of BB's impacting along the walls of the room. With a Micro Uzi, due to its ferocious rate of fire, The Heavy bolt moving back and forth and stupendous speed, results in amazing felt recoil. By maintaing a firm, but not vice like grip, this allows the gun to judder about like mad, (and even if you did have a vice like grip, you would still be hard pressed to keep the Uzi from going all over the place) result: BB's everywher in the room, Along the walls, over the floor, into the ceiling, and hopefully into your targets as well.

Hopefully there was no one in that room that you wanted to rescue!

Having said that, The micro Uzi is capable of nice accuracy at close range, if fired slowly and deliberately. Also note that it only has a two stage safety/selecetor, You either "buzz" or "dont buzz" with the push button, "Safe" and "full auto" settings. 

Reliability.

When using a Sub gun at close ranges, you want total reliabilty, after all you are operating right on the envelope, moving fast, hitting hard. The last thing you want is your gun going down. Especially with something like a compact SMG that you haven't used all day and have just pulled out from your holster/hidey hole.

score Five! Micro Uzi!

When it comes down to the crunch the Micro Uzi takes a beating and keeps on kicking. Its Boxy construction means it can take the knocks and the poudings that you might not want your pristene Wilson Combat to take, While the internal mechanism, is simple and tough, with only a few moving parts to go wrong, and of course, the boxy design allopws these componants to be a little bigger then normal, Which means they are just that little bit tougher. Micro Uzi's also work with higher pressure gases like HFC22, In fact, most Micro Uzi owners would even suggest that Micro Uzi's thrive on the higher powered stuff. I'm not arguing. Maintaning a micro Uzi is a simple case of racking back the action and liberally dousing the thing in Silicone oil, taking attention with the feed tube. Closing the action.. and thats it!

Compared to the KSC Mac11 which seems to be a lot less reliable and much more prone to breakage..

Type U - New for 2002

The Type U version of the Maruzen Micro Uzi differs from the orginal version in a key area, The Magazine. The orignal used a old style magazine that looked very much like the one found in the MAruzen NON BLOW BACK Micro Uzi from the early 90's. As such it used an old style valving system and held a small gas reservior which seemed to be taken from the MAruzen Walther PPK/s NON BLOW BACK. This meant that the Orignal GBB micro Uzi did have a small disadvantage when it came to gas capacity. A full charge could still fire off an entire magazine worth of BB's but It would struggle to empty the second load, and of course. Survival Gamers of course, might not have the time to refill with gas AND BB's and were becoming used to Newer gas magazines that had sufficent gas to last 3 maybe 4 magazine loads of gas.

The Type U Micro Uzi solves all of these problems with a full size magazine, And a revised Valve mechanism taken from the Maruzen Walther P99 and MAruzen Colt Groovy Government. This should lead to increased reliability and performance!

However, Type U - Micro Uzi magazines are no longer compatible with the Original GBB Micro Uzi, Nor are the older magazines useable in the new type U, So just watch out for that.