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Figured seeing as i've seen a couple of reviews up on here and the makarov isnt one of them i'd put in my tuppence about the last 6 months of ownership. Make/model- WE Makarov Pmm Fps- 0.7-2.5j (i'll come back to that bit later) Hop up- proprietary design but takes standard marui style rubbers no problem. Mag capacity- not much, haven't counted directly but "theoretically" about 15 rounds Full metal construction with plastic handguards. So this little beauty is a bit of an oddball and odds are if you're buying this it's more than likely as part of a russian themed loadout and you're not a fan of the tokarev. The good news is that in the lottery of oddball pistols this is one of the ones that's actually a good shooter in its own right. In the box you'll get the pistol, mag, suppressor and a barrel extension, now much like the mk23 if you drop that barrel extension on or swap to a longer inner barrel beware that you're gonna get some raised eyebrows at the chrono as this thing is set up really for a short barrel. I guess if you're mad you could make a pocket sniper. Mine didnt come with the barrel extension but from what i've read thats no bad thing as it pushes your fps through the roof and your accuracy through the floor. The suppressor is standard we threading so you can drop it on most of their other guns easily. Internals wise it's standard enough, 15mm bbu which on such a small lightly sprung slide means in the warm weather it's got a lovely snappy kick almost comparable to a co2 gun, although cold weather performance is somewhat lacklustre but then i've never met a we that liked the cold (in its defence when it couldnt keep up it was also cold enough to stop a hicapa in its tracks as well) The hop unit is awesome, one of the better designs i've seen, think a pro-win style rotary hop adapted to a pistol. Out of the box it's ok for .2's but will struggle to lift .3's but if you drop a maple leaf and a nub made out of a square of aeg hop then you can lob .4's at sub 1j which is hilarious (and effective) Gas effeciency is greatly dependant on the weather, a couple of mags in the warm turns to half a mag if your lucky in the cold. They're small mags so not much gas. Generally i down-load them as lobbing heavy ammo from a pistol always murders the gas effeciency. Features wise the safety is a bit finnicky, in theory it's a slide mounted safety/decocker but its very easy to pop her just out of battery when engaging which will mean it doesnt work, i tend to opt for either just not using it or manually dropping to half-cock for a double action pull. Also seems the decocker puts a little bit of pressure on the mag which can cause it to leak. Trigger is your standard single/double, double action is long and creepy, single is surprisingly crisp and definately the better way to shoot. In the hand the grip is a bit odd, feels uncomfortable if you're conciously holding it, but in the field that sort of melts into the background and you end up going with the full sean connery spec one handed lower grip, very good for instinct firing. Sights are small (like the pistol) but crisp and if you take the time to get a proper sight picture it's nice and precise, but as mentioned before you'll end up doing a bond impression and instinct firing. Strip down follows the original pretty well, pop the trigger guard down, pull the slide back lift up and off to give you access to the hop. Its a bit of a tricky sequence but quite smooth when you get the hang of it and gets the attention of folk who aren't familiar with the design. Holster wise your options are both wide and limited. The good news is with the heel release you can safely stuff this in a generic fabric holster and be reasonably confident she'll still go bang when needed (unlike the thumb button style that loves to drop mags when in that kind of holster). This will be your cheapest option. Otherwise you'll be looking at either leather concealed carry type, or the proper russian military style ones. Can't confirm if this thing works in the fancy spetsnaz push draw holster or not but i did grab a paddle rentention one which she fits perfectly, of course this route is not exactly cheap as they're marketed for real guns rather than airsoft. Overall it's a lovely combination of something unique and different but good enough to hold its own against the sea of glocks in terms of performance at least in good weather. edit: a few points i forgot: the suppressor is a hollow can with a tube up the inside, no foam filling here, so not useful for actual suppression unless you gut it and do some mk23 esque shenanigans with the insides. careful with the mags- cold weather+mag lips+a drop onto concrete wont end well, although amazingly you can actually buy spares gas wise- as mentioned later in the topic i run it on nuprol 4.0 with .4g bb's and it hasn't blown up yet, but then i also run a plastic slide hicapa on the same and it also hasn't blown up either despite what the internet says about putting anything stronger than 144 in a marui so make of that what you will...... Edit 2: you know you want pics.....

Make sure you buy the gun! I've had a canoe paddle for about 3 years now and still no canoe 😑

Oh, sorcery. Gotchya. 👍

is it just me, or would i much prefer the phrase "up shit creek without a paddle" to "in shit creek with a paddle and no canoe"

Am genuinely sorry his business has folded due to the situation , but again not my problem and if he wants to use ‘military grade materials’ for an Airsoft mask then more fool he is , especially when you can get most of his patterns in this country for the same if not less (and I do know you can as I make kit my self !) so not a great deal of sympathy for him . Ps if he really really does want some sympathy he can look it up in a dictionary , he’ll find it between shit and syphilis ! 😉 Ooooh that’s rather sweet ! 😍

Just bought a throat mic. An ALAN Heavy duty throat mic. Appears to be a faithful reproduction of the Code Red systems at a much more agreeable (at this time) price.

WE SCAR L GBBR Externals: Kinetic MREX handguard PTS MOE Pistol Grip Visionking LPVO Offset NcSTAR Micro Reflex Element repro Surefire M600 and SR07 switch Classic Army AAC SCAR L suppressor Real Magpul MLOK hand-stop Internals: RATech 6.01 barrel Maple Leaf 70 degree autobot bucking Maple Leaf concave nub Poseidon Zero 2 Anti-Icer Nozzle

working on a Seals loadout. Here's the AEG's so far. TM Sig 226 with Guarder metal upper and lower, Crimson trace laser grips, Threaded outer barrel and extended Magazine. VFC GBB MP5SD6 with torch and laser mount. I had tinker inside to get it working well but now runs like a train. TM SCAR H with 1x4 Elcan, PEC 15 with working light and red laser and Vertical grip (Just need to fit a titan and tightbore for this to be finished). TM HK416D in Tan. Various accessories and Titan and tightbore fitted inside. Stock pad is my 3D printed design for the battery.

Yesterday's game.

When you say "bb's" what exactly are we referring to? Is it actual ammo or some of those polystyrene packing balls painted yellow?

Ye of little faith! Ordered Friday, showed up today even with free-over-£50 postage. A new gun, in the ordered colour, still tagged and not pre-licked, two new sealed WE mags, and a free bottle of BBs thrown in as well. I have to say, I expected more drama. Sort of disappointed.

i don't really fully understand it myself, but i'll try to explain what i think is happening as it makes sense to me: the gas comes up from the mag and goes both directions, back starts pushing on the slide and front pushes on the bb while the bb is in the barrel the flow rate is kept low (relative term) so the float valve stays open when the bb leaves the barrel the pressure drops, increasing the flow rate which shuts the valve (it's why messing with the valve and it's spring can change fps) when the valve closes now all the gas can go into pushing the slide back and it cycles normally. so when you're using heavier ammo it's harder to accelerate, so the pressure spikes increasing leaks from all the usual places (eg around the bb- not a tight fit, and all the places around the nozzle it could leak) and increasing the pressure on the piston while it's in that phase (hence the boost in kick). it also takes longer to accelerate hence the joule creep. the pressure spike is also why the tech at my local shop thinks i'm mad for running a hicapa on .4's and swears i'll blow up a nozzle some day...... the same applies for a longer barrel- the valve stays open until the pressure drops so it just keeps pushing and pushing until the bb's left the barrel, the flow rate for a given gun is tuned for a rough energy level for a given barrel length (hence how you can have NPAS kits for GBB rifles- it's just an adjustable way of tuning the flow rate) so you can expect X joules for Y barrel length and increasing barrel length increases the energy. that's for marui pattern guns that use a sprung float valve (WE being marui clones in that respect). i have a (kwc?) cybergun co2 1911 that's different, the valve isn't sprung but instead has a protrusion into the chamber so the bb holds the valve open, i suspect what happens here is the valve closes the moment the bb moves far enough to let that happen and it's up to the gas already in the barrel at that point to expand and push the bb, so it's possible that system won't react as well to a longer barrel due to this mechanism but i haven't tested it. now the caveat is all that could be wrong, but it's a theory that kinda makes logical sense and at least explains all the different phenomina i've observed with these guns. if someone knows this better than i i'd love to know how close (or not) i've got it

Pressure; the time it takes for the gas to vent plus the valve time to close and the power of the spring operating the valve to return to its original position. "Science stuff" is the short answer.

Yea it is a blatant cloning BUT I’m sorry the ‘original’ is equally taking the piss asking 50quid for a cloth and plastic mask ! 😱

Absolutely nothing wrong with that rationale, if its what keeps you interested and playing then why the hell not?

Bloody hell poor chap who made it. They even have HIS logo on the nose. But to be fair 50 quid for a mask? thats a bit much 30-35 at a push if it's "top quality"

might not look like much but this could be the answer to stop glasses from steaming up. 2 nozzles clip onto the side of the glasses and air is pumped across the inside of the lense keeping them from fogging up. This is a prototype and as I'm typing this the fan housing is in the printer. Hopefully it will work out.

Whilst thinking about getting an MP7, I was reminded that I had some things lying around.... So put this together. It's a WE 18c, with CJ barrel, ML bucking and ML hop unit. APS carbine kit and cheap RDS from ebay. I was actually pleasantly surprised when I fired it. So much so am toying with either drum or extended mag...

Well the browning L9A1 hi power came back. Unfortunately they laser etched the markings instead of engraving them.... 😡 And because of the silver colour you can't even see the ones engraved on the chamber 😣 Oh well......

Why can't Miss Piggy count to 70? Because every time she gets to 69 she gets a frog in her throat 🐸

Why did the sperm cross the road? I had the wrong socks on.... I have a joke about my cock.. Never mind its too long!!

A couple of new additions to the family...

Havent had chance to tune and shoot it yet but first impressions: I have never handled an airsoft weapon of this quality. When they call it a "training weapon" they werent kidding. I am very impressed at how compatible the parts are for these things. Ive chucked a bunch of aftermarket parts on as you can see, which confirmed for me almost everything is compatible with Milspec, AEG, and GBBR parts which is handy for anyone moving over to HPA that previously owned an M4/AR based gun. I am very glad wolverine made their rail system M-LOK over keymod. looks a feels 100 times nicer. I was lost for words at how light this thing was despite it being 90% full metal. I could give this to a young teenager and they would be able to sport this all day without a problem. Definitely lighter than my G&G Scar-L. Aesthetically and Ergonomically I cant find a single fault with the base gun bar two things. The only issues I faced was the split receiver (these things break down exactly like real AR's) was abit wobbly. Fortunately I had a spare G&P magic pin which resolved this issue right away. I havent seen many people speak about this issue on the forum so i could have been unlucky. But either way, if you find the same issues, its less than a tenner to amend. Secondly, my after market stock (AEG) was very wobbly when fitting. This was to be expected as ive heard many people mention this on the Wolverine Owners group on facebook. Easiest solution in the world: couple strips of electrical tape either side & the top of the buffer tube (where it would be hidden under the stock), slid the stock back ona nd no wobble at all. You'd never know the tape was there by sight also. My only suggestion to wolverine would be to have some kind of sling mount added to the stock gun or at least have it as a option in their "gun builder" on their site or high pressure airsoft's site. I had to find a mil spec AR sling mount end plate on ebay so i can use my single point sling.