EMG Helios Staccato Licensed P 2011 CO2 Gas Blowback Airsoft Pistol
(Model: Pro Grip / Standard / Gun Only)

"It’s a nice pistol the grips are nice good slide great shooting and durability but ya pretty nice

"Good gun so far. CO2 kicks real nice and very accurate. Only gripe would be slide seems to be brittle around slide release point. Especially on full cartridge

"I love and hate this Pistol!!

I've owned this for one year now, and I have only been able to take it to one game. When I got my pistol, I was very happy with the gun. I shot some drills in the yard, and I was pleased. I own the P model with Master Grip, CO2 mag, and CNC frame. The grip is awesome with gloves and has a good texture and feel. The finish is a little glossy for my liking, but it is good none the less.

The problems occurred quickly. The C02 mag had a leaking issue at Co2 puncher inside causing the mag to dump the pressure, I couldn't get a replacement part or Mag as these are very popular on Evike and sell out very quickly. The pistol is very picky on what mags it will take so I wasn't able to find a different mag so I waited 5 months to get a new mag. I found a green gas mag from Army Arment that works well enough but not as good as the Co2.

The second problem occurred with the nozzle, I'm not sure if I caused this problem or not. However, I wasn't able to buy a replacement from EMG as they didn't have enough stock to sell separately. The worst part was that because the slide had an RMR cut the nozzle, and blowback housing are proprietary so it is incredibly hard to find a replacement, I managed to buy the Nozzle from Red Wolf Airsoft and that worked.

The Last problem was the trigger sears. For some reason with my pistol after no less than 36 mags through the gun, the metal for the sears had warned down to the point that it caused the pistol to double or triple tap. Unfortunately, the repair kit is still not available from Evike and I still haven't gotten a replacement set from EMG. The only place that I can find it is on Red Wolf Airsoft. I purchased it and installed and it works fine now, however, it doesn't make sense why it failed so quickly for me.

Other minor issues are the slide catch has already started to bend and wear the metal down, and the finish on the outer barrel is wearing really quickly. ]

This brings me to my final thoughts. This pistol is really nice on my wall, it's fun to manipulate and hold. But I haven't had a good experience over the long term, from lack of replacement parts, needing to replace 80% of the internal parts and this wasn't a cheap pistol.

So do I recommend it? Maybe, but beware that if problems occur be prepared to spend lots of time looking for parts and you need to have good knowledge of repairing gas blowback pistols. It looks and feels great, shoots well, and has a snappy shooting cycle.