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EVOLUTION GHOST L EMR CARBONTECH

90% of the
prestigious Italian look overall.
firearms manufacturers like Beretta call home!) by one A 14mm CCW thread is concealed beneath a pretty
of the most skilled real gun designers, who Evolution standard “birdcage” so you can change that out to
worked side by side with to develop a ground something funkier easily and that, of course, also
breaking line of guns that is unique when it comes means that fitting a tracer unit or suppressor is a
to overall design and the technological and technical breeze. There’s also a nicely enlarged trigger guard
content. However, when someone says “ghost” to around the flat-blade trigger, an ambi single-point
me, I immediately have a vision of good old Casper sling plate and a six position sliding stock (think
come to mind, an ethereal and insubstantial spirit modern Magpul) with ambi QD sockets.
that drifts around with little purpose but one that Internally, the Evolution GHOST is right up there
inevitably spreads joy wherever he flitters! When it with the best of the current crop, as it incorporates
comes to the GHOST L EMR Carbontech, the latter is an ETU (Electronic Trigger Unit) with electromagnetic
undoubtedly still true as it does indeed bring joy but sensors. A powerful Active Brake, Full Cycle control
there is absolutely nothing insubstantial - and no lack (Systema springs to mind here) and a sophisticated
of purpose - about this cracking AEG! battery protection system are always on for
Let’s first get the “Carbontech” bit out of the superior performance. This also plays a role in
way. The receiver set of the AEG is externally created protecting the electronics, by detecting low
from a space-age carbon-reinforced techno-polymer voltage and shutting things down if necessary
designed to be lightweight and strong under heavy and removes the possibility of damage to trigger
duty use. These are cutting-edge techno-polymers contacts. A High Torque motor and reinforced
that, when combined, provide an amalgam that offers steel gears keeps the gearbox rolling at its peak level,
improved strength, extra durability, plus a great feel in and I’m told that the reinforced gearbox can handle
the hand and that extend the life of the parts in their up to an M120 Spring. A quick-change feature makes
entirety. Of course, there is still high-grade alloy used it easy (and fast) to change springs without the need
for the rail, outer barrel and buffer tube to give the to take things apart fully. Add to this high-flow wiring
GHOST some substance. throughout, a fine-tune rotary Hop unit along with
Getting into the nitty-gritty of features, the GHOST a 6.01mm precision inner barrel, some great flip-up
has a super-lightweight Evolution Modular Rail (EMR) “irons” and the GHOST is quite the package!
that is made of CNC machined billet aluminium, matte
black coated, M-LOK compatible and this feels just GETTING SPIRITUAL!
right in terms of diameter to me, with a lot of space So, in terms of feel and components and build quality
to fill up with accessories if you should so desire! The the GHOST is a really cool AEG and when I spoke
front rail and upper receiver rail are contiguous, with to my friend, AA Legionnaire and Evolution “Face”,
a 70mm section (six slots) extending forwards from Bjorn, from Klockar Airsoft, about it, he shed some
the receiver. The top rail does not extend the full further light on the design process, along with his
length of the M-LOK handguard, making it extremely own feelings about the platform as a whole.
comfortable and giving a more “civilian performance” “To start with a little history about the “Ghost

“IF THIS WASN’T THE CASE, THEN WHY WOULD WE HAVE THE “LIGHT IS RIGHT”
MANTRA ON THE LIPS OF THE “HI SPEED, LO DRAG” FRATERNITY? IF YOU FOLLOW MY
LOGIC, A LIGHTER RIFLE OR CARBINE REDUCES YOUR OVERALL LOAD EVEN FURTHER,
MEANING THAT YOU CAN GO HARDER AND FASTER, FOR LONGER!”

18 JUNE 2021