[lurkingknight]

with the cost of TMs (well big buzz is helping with this lately) I don't find it economically sound to buy an ABS TM pistol in country for 2-3x the price of what it costs in japan, to spend another pistols worth of money on a metal upgrade kit, with mags; when you can just buy a KJW which is about 90% TM compatible already full metal and does just as well out of the box.

That's just me though, people can spend their money however they want. But comparing the TM 5-7 I just bought with the KWA 226 I already have, the kwa worked fine out of the box and had no issues, whereas the TM using propane is operating far out of its design specs, and will break sooner rather than later, even with all the mods I've done to it to try and stave off the inevitable.

If another manufacturer came out with a propane/gg ready 5-7 I'd buy it in an instant.

kwa pistols are great, and their parts are not that hard to find, just get them from kwa usa. Upgrade parts are a bit more rare, but what do you really need to upgrade on a pistol? with .28s my kwa 226 will shoot straight out to 50m, far more than I need in a secondary.