The 'What have you just bought' Thread

[ButcherBill]

A small offering to help me fasten my Virtus STV round my fat belly.

 

[Brutuz]

Last Friday evening I ordered a

APS X-Cap Spyder Race Connector D-Mod mit Metallschlitten GBB 6mm BB schwarz / gold ​

from Kotte & Zeller in Germany. ​

It will be delivered this afternoon (iagw)​

It's going back tomorrow. The first two 10 shot sessions went well. After that it was excessively loosing gas upon shooting and after that it vented from the fill port. Bummer.​

 

[Baser]

LCT RPK 16, picked up second hand to fulfill my want to play support gunner.

 

[PopRocket123]

Well ofter 2 months of amazon sending me the wrong bipod twice, finding the one I want on a Chinese website and waiting over 3 weeks for it to get here I finally have the bipod to go on my SPR build. Plus the new scope mount, Aimpoint Acro P2 clone, surefire light and mount, sling, mount and a new set of stanag mags it's really looking the part

 

[Brutuz]

It's going back tomorrow. The first two 10 shot sessions went well. After that it was excessively loosing gas upon shooting and after that it vented from the fill port. Bummer.​

Sending it back to Germany proved to be a hassle. Since it's a dual power system I ordered a co2 mag instead.
I guess the gas mag needs more powerfull gas, (slide lock upon empty mag doesn't work).
Haven't got more powerfull gas so cannnot test it at the moment.

 

[Tank423]

Sending it back to Germany proved to be a hassle. Since it's a dual power system I ordered a co2 mag instead.
I guess the gas mag needs more powerfull gas, (slide lock upon empty mag doesn't work).
Haven't got more powerfull gas so cannnot test it at the moment.

Sounds like an APS pistol in a nutshell TBH, I had a dragonfly that looked great but didn't perform well on green, was better on C02 but still lackluster compared to pretty much any other pistol.

Sell it and buy something better.

 

[Lyndication]

Sending it back to Germany proved to be a hassle. Since it's a dual power system I ordered a co2 mag instead.
I guess the gas mag needs more powerfull gas, (slide lock upon empty mag doesn't work).
Haven't got more powerfull gas so cannnot test it at the moment.

I wouldn't load CO2 into APS pistols.

They have a concerning rate of Mag Asplode.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Ok, I'm a bit tardy on this, as I bought the gat a week or two ago, but I've got myself a TM Tactical M9 which is something I've had an itch for, for a while...


(Lighting / my camera work not doing it any favours, it's very clean looking, honest!)

It came from Action Hobbies' boneyard with 'sticky grip syndrome'. Well a dip in brake fluid and a scrub with a toothbrush sorted that out, and then a couple of coats of rattle can matte black brought the grips back to looking and feeling much better. I might add on some Talon Grip to get it back to being properly Tactical, happy enough as it is.

I have a question. I wanted this M9 partly because the old cheapo M9 I have is double action. Would spare me those awful 'forgot to cock it' moments when pulling the sidearm in extremis
So I was a bit disappointed to (initially) find this gat wasn't giving me double action happiness. But I've just discovered that drawing back on the hammer just a tiny bit causes a loud click, and enables the double action to function. I can see the trigger bar on the side of the gun move.
So ... is this a side-effect of me losing the spring that attaches to the trigger bar when I removed the grips? I used the spring from my cheapo HFC M9 as a replacement. Maybe it's not strong enough?

I also bought a cheap Nuprol M4 CQB because you can never have enough backup-to-the-backup-of-the-backup M4's sitting in a box in the loft. I've not even re-wired that to Deans yet, so no idea if it's a load of crap or not

 

[Brutuz]

Sounds like an APS pistol in a nutshell TBH, I had a dragonfly that looked great but didn't perform well on green, was better on C02 but still lackluster compared to pretty much any other pistol.

Sell it and buy something better.

I wouldn't load CO2 into APS pistols.

They have a concerning rate of Mag Asplode.

I'll let the forum know how mine does with a co2 mag, I hope it works, I owned a co2 APS pistol before which did rather well. We'll see how it goes this time, this pistol is rated dual power green gas and co2

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

Another Action Hobbies boneyard rescue, this time what I think is a Cyma CM.077. The rationale (being generous to describe my Airsoft purchases with that term) is that this will make a good winter gun, with Cyma’s AKs being legendarily robust.

As if to prove that point to me, it toppled over and drove its charging handle through my Ikea Kallax within 10 mins of getting it home.

Despite its penchant for chaos and destruction I’m quite taken with the scruff paint job and Zhukov bits. Need a suitable battery to fit in the receiver as none of mine do. Will fit a new hop rubber but otherwise seems good to go, snappy trigger for a stock gun, Paul at AH thinks it’s seen some mods so will find out when I take it apart..

 

[Lyndication]

I'll let the forum know how mine does with a co2 mag, I hope it works, I owned a co2 APS pistol before which did rather well. We'll see how it goes this time, this pistol is rated dual power green gas and co2

Fair dues, it's your hand that's wrapped around it.

 

[Austeyr]

Fair dues, it's your hand that's wrapped around it.

Next post: "How do I get plastic shrapnel out of skin"

 

[Anonymoose]

Next post: "How do I get plastic shrapnel out of skin"

Answer: Very carefully.

 

[Rickwales]

Birthday present to myself in the black Friday sale. Bit plasticy but great fun. Wanted a full auto pistol for the collection.

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

A Specna Prime AK74.



I had been holding out for the new all metal Cyma Platinum AKs, but the price of those when released a few weeks back in the UK (£460) was about £100 more than I was prepared to pay (and expecting). So at £340. the Specna Prime got my money. Very impressed so far. Full steel build (except a couple of small parts that are zinc alloy - e.g. sight block). Nice wood. Internally, a gate aster, TDC flat hop, stainless inner barrel, brushless motor, comes with two mags. On paper then, it seems to blow the Cyma out of the water. I have a snaking suspicion the externals on the Cyma would be a little nicer, but the Specna really is pretty good in that respect. Happily it fits and feeds from my existing Cyma ak74 mags, which sit in the rifle with barely any sideways wobble. Only complaints is a slightly creaky pistol grip -I swapped on an old Cyma grip I had that fits rock solid.

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

Birthday present to myself in the black Friday sale. Bit plasticy but great fun. Wanted a full auto pistol for the collection.

Great bit of kit. Whilst I have lots of nice pistols in my collection, my AAP is most commonly selected secondary as it just works very well - it's a 'tool'. With a secondary that spends 99% of its time on your hip, and being something that you really need to perform on the rare but usually urgent occasions that it does see the daylight, it just makes perfect sense.

 

[Rickwales]

Great bit of kit. Whilst I have lots of nice pistols in my collection, my AAP is most commonly selected secondary as it just works very well - it's a 'tool'. With a secondary that spends 99% of its time on your hip, and being something that you really need to perform on the rare but usually urgent occasions that it does see the daylight, it just makes perfect sense.

Is it worth doing any mods or keep it standard? We have a ssp02 a Goldmatch and a couple of mk23s already. Need a cheap holster and maybe a silencer for it.

 

[Rickwales]

A Specna Prime AK74.

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I had been holding out for the new all metal Cyma Platinum AKs, but the price of those when released a few weeks back in the UK (£460) was about £100 more than I was prepared to pay (and expecting). So at £340. the Specna Prime got my money. Very impressed so far. Full steel build (except a couple of small parts that are zinc alloy - e.g. sight block). Nice wood. Internally, a gate aster, TDC flat hop, stainless inner barrel, brushless motor, comes with two mags. On paper then, it seems to blow the Cyma out of the water. I have a snaking suspicion the externals on the Cyma would be a little nicer, but the Specna really is pretty good in that respect. Happily it fits and feeds from my existing Cyma ak74 mags, which sit in the rifle with barely any sideways wobble. Only complaints is a slightly creaky pistol grip -I swapped on an old Cyma grip I had that fits rock solid.

Gotta love an Ak. My krink is amazing

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

Is it worth doing any mods or keep it standard? We have a ssp02 a Goldmatch and a couple of mk23s already. Need a cheap holster and maybe a silencer for it.

It's good enough stock - you will perhaps get slightly better range and accuracy out of it by swapping to a maple leaf autobot bucking or similar - but this isn't essential. If you want to definitely tighten things up, then an aftermarket hop of the likes of the Action Army CNC hop will likely improve things a little more. But because these guns are so good out of the box, the differences aren't going to be spectacular. For a holster, i use the Swiss Arms Adaptex universal holster - its a solid polymer trigger retention holster than can be adjusted to fit different pistols. They seem hard to find these days, but there are other universal polymer holsters on the market. Much better than the soft fabric ones that leave the mag catch vulnerable and lead to endless lost mags..... I'm not sure I'd bother with a silencer personally, being a blowback, its not going to make much noise difference (unlike on your Mk23s)

 

[Brutuz]

Fair dues, it's your hand that's wrapped around it.

The co2 mag I just received leaks co2 from the top: I'm done whith this brand and will make sure the mag will be binned.

I ordered a JW4 replica from Poland, together with a red can of gas, maybe a bit of extra pressure fixes the gas issue of the ASP's gas mag.