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The mws and warmed over tm recoils have spoilt me. I pull the trigger on the stock scar and make a cup of tea before it fires 😆

It's never stopped you before 😜

I did come close to buying a CYMA M14 to DMR, but the fiddly nature of them put me off. I'll regret it when my Specna gearbox grenades, mind, and given that everything we do is damn silly, I probably should have followed my heart rather than my head on that one.

in all my time airsofting i've never fired a tri-shot and can only recall being hit by one once. also the likes of the aps shells seem pointless as if they're close enough to hit with unhopped rounds then launching a couple dozen of them + a shot cup is overkill. however that does remind me: grenade launchers- all shower shells are shit, the 40-mike is either overkill up close or underwhelming at range, and there's no middle ground between that and the scarily sketchy (in all regards) tag rounds. plus they make any gun they're bolted to unnecessarily heavy, stupidly awkward, and half the time you forget to use it because the rifle it's strapped to is better in every way. buuuut they look cool as shit.

My cyma M4. Cheap plastic that beaks easily (the rear sling point snapped under its own weight) a body that creaks worse than my back, and that's wobbly as hell and an fps that varies by up 15. Despite all that I still love using it

Its all about small improvements that are permanent. Doesn't matter if you run 15 miles one day and eat steak and veg if you normally overeat and dont exercise. Doing a light work out everyday and not eating excess sugar and processed food will have more of a impact than once a week doing some insane workout. Small changes every week that stick and slowly it will cascade into big ones. I put on bare weight over the lockdown making small changes to go back to having a thigh gap I miss it these thick thighs are no fun when your a man im not cardi b... lol Being able to run and gun at airsoft is a good enough excuse to stay in shape.

Not any more he isn't. He was involved in a deal, didn't like how it turned out, and started deleting the other guys posts, so "god complex" seems very applicable. Don't worry though, the scammers are still there, they don't get banned. Classic ZeroIn.

I can’t use an AEG these days unless it has a binary trigger and doesn’t sound like a flat cordless drill

At last someone speaking sense 😂

Finally got something that had been on my list for quite a while now. And to boot, it's the gun of a deceased friend, which he had sold off prior to his death and which has now found its way to me on mysterious pathways 😌 Hephaestus HTS-14 Groza, 1st version, with the early full steel silencer and a Pilar scope (civil version of the military scope, that belongs on the Groza but is extremely hard to find), Just need different mount rings, these look aweful. Really happy about this! ☺️

Kind of the opposite of of a recent thread, what's a gun that you absolutely love even though you know it's bad. Maybe you live the look but the performance is terrible, it's impractical for airsoft out maybe deep down you just know that it's not worth the money you've spent in it. I'll start. LMGs. They're big, they're heavy and they're generally pretty poorly designed. You spend £400-500 on the gun plus a box mag, plus upgrades and it won't perform any better than an ARP with a drum mag. But God DAMN does it feel good to be the guy with the big gun, at least until lunch time. MP7s. On paper they're the perfect airsoft gun. They have just the right barrel length, just the right amount of modularity and they look so cool. But airsoft companies just can't seem to get them right. The full sized ones generally perform ok at best and while the TM is pretty good they all seem to suffer with durability issues. Not that any of this is going to stop me from getting one, I just need to work out which one is with the investment. Finally DMRs. You spend all this extra money for maybe 10-20 extra metres and in return you get limited by your rof and med. Won't stop me spending way too much on my SCAR though.

Go tell Futureboy about classifieds etiquette 🤬😂

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I guess I'm lucky. It's rare that anyone uses tags at my local site, because they're silly expensive. However, when I went to my first (and probably only) milsim event last month, people were launching tags more than I was firing my bolt action rifle. Seriously, the number of tags that went off were horrendous. That said, I have seen them at one skirmish game day from a bunch of milsim manchildren where they got annoyed with me because they kept firing tags into a location that I had long since relocated away from, they just hadn't seen me relocate and assumed I was there and not calling the hit. You'd have thought they'd give up after 2, but I think they fired 5 tags into that position before the game ended. To me, it's unfathomable how much some people spend on airsoft, and that's coming from me and my real steel load bearing gear, expensive HPA boltie setup and multitude of upgraded TM pistols. Adding another to this list though, I'm going to say GBBRs. They're inconsistent, can throw a tantrum in the cold, but I love them all the same. I just love the kick and the realism, even if I'm limited to 35 BB magazines vs hi-cap heroes at a skirmish day Also, any original 1911 GBB. The magazines are tiny, so a full fill is equivalent to like... half or less of another GBB magazine. However... I love my 1911! And why not make it a third. M14s. M14s are horrible to work on, they're really heavy and super front-heavy, and they're just another AEG now that their hop up isn't wizardry relative to other platforms any more. However, once I HPA mine it will be my main gun alongside the VSR because I love it and I love how it looks. There's just something about the m14 that I love (and people seem to love. I get a lot of people asking about my m14 and complimenting me on it whenever it comes out to play)

I think this is the case for most guns being discussed here. My Well MP7 is a prime example. The hop can't lift anything heavier than a .2g bb and struggles to reach 40ft range, but my god is it satisfying when I get a shot on target. Especially if said target is carrying an Uber expensive top of the range rif

100% this. The tag rounds don't seem that bad out of the tubes instead of the MGLs. I badly want to do a US grenadier loadout having seen this picture. That's a case of "this is my rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine" lol. I'm that same with my guns. The one time I was hit by a shotgun, it was a TM Beecher, HPA tapped with M4 mag at 10m. Perfect triangle straight to the forehead.

where's @Sitting Duck when you need him? tbh, i've never really fussed too much with volume on aeg's, yes it is a thing but being out by a bit doesn't have nearly the same effect as the same applied to say an hpa setup (where over/under voluming really does screw up your groupings) as a general rule i tend to go with either not messing with it, or leaning towards over-volumed. granted i tend to go more for the tight bore rather than wide bore barrels. honestly, getting the rest of the gun right tends to be much more important, perfect volume is pointless if the hop/air seal is bad or you're slinging poor quality ammo or have a bad barrel.

Tri-shotguns. You can tell yourself that the instant trigger response and BBs spread are an advantage, but at ranges where the response matters, the spread is minimal, and at ranges where you get spread, you could put a lot more BBs downrange with any auto or fully-semi-automatic AEG or gas gun. They're still hella satisfying when you get a hit, but that's from putting in the effort, not because they're particularly effective.

an equally valid point. generally when i've shimmed the sector and more on to the idler if it's contacting with only 0.1 under it then it gets shimmed too (as well as shimmed to prevent contact with the sector) ultimately if nothing is binding/jamming, everything spins smooth regardless of orientation and the bevel is in a good spot for motor mesh it really doesn't matter how you get there. best boxes to shim are a&k lmg boxes, the open bottom might be awful design for preventing crap getting in but it sure does make visual checking of shimming a breeze.

hey you stole my idea!!!! 😡😡😡😡 j/k i do agree on most lmg's, of all the ones i've seen/used the pkm seems to be the most useful of the heavy bunch, or at least the only one i've used that was worth holding onto rather than setting it down and running around with a pistol. haven't used enough mp7's to comment one way or the other. for me (sorry in advance @Asomodai ) but it's bullpups. my first pew was a g&g f2000 and whilst i loved it the moment i expanded into collecting "normal" rifles i just couldn't use it the same after that and the only time she ever got fielded was when i felt guilty for not having fielded her for ages. i think the issue is that the advantages that bullpups have are very specific to a modern mechanised army and don't really add benefit either as a RS civilian shooter (where barrel length for velocity/terminal ballistics isn't a big concern) or in airsoft (where barrel length is mostly meaningless), but the downsides of awkward handling and awful triggers are more noticable. but i still think they're cool, and thanks to a certain mustachioed youtuber i currently want an airsoft vhs2 even though i know it'll probably be terrible and anyone who releases an affordable groza will be forgiven for any and all sins. the WE makarov, i still stand by my position of it being by far the best airsoft makarov on the market, and yes it can be made to have excellent range/accuracy for a pistol, but the gas efficiency is, well, isn't and you can forget using it in winter (if i'm honest late autumn/early spring too) as anything other than a holster filler. and it does wear out quickly unlike tm's ending up all rattly, out of the box it won't lift anything heavier than .2's, the hop design may be excellent but the tiny ass range of adjustment it has meaning you gotta shim it for a very narrow range of ammo weight, the range on super heavies might be hilarious but you'll be swapping bulged nozzles pretty much every other mag, the piston head is WE's godawful hard plastic, and the paint finish just isn't as nice as it could be and the sights are terrible. but all that said it's still a lovely handling pistol with both that comblock charm and that sort-of-a-ppk bond cool and it's awesome and i love it and i kinda regret selling mine even if i hardly ever used it. also, (contraversial) the m4 (well, ar15 derivative rifle)...... nothing to do with the ergonomics/handling/myriad of parts available for tinkering meaning you can lego build a platform exactly to your needs. but as a gun to work on they are bloody awful. getting the gearbox out of one is such a massive massive pain in the arse compared to many other designs on the market especially so when you have bolt releases, fake dust covers, ambi mag catches etc to mess around with in the dissassembly. the pistol grip also being the motor cage is a shit design which i'm thankful they learned their lesson on. as an example- to remove the gearbox from my last m4 (e&c body but most of the points apply to any variant) you had to pop off the upper (with the whole charging handle shimmy that entails and checking nothing fell out/went sproing), remove the buttstock (which needed pliers), punch out the pin on the bolt release to remove it and allow the unscrewing of the mag release, remove the bottom of the grip, pull the contacts off the motor and remove that, fish around the bottom of the grip to get those screws undone followed by fishing around the stock tube to unscrew that bolt (which is worse trying to line up for reassembly) then shake the gun around to fish out the section that joins the stock bolt to the stock (whilst being thankful it's not one of those ones where it isn't removable and you have a tiny tiny ass hole to feed the wires through), remove the clip from the rear body pin then remove the rear body pin then punch out the trigger pin and after all that you can now start the process of wiggling the gearbox out of the gun. whereas an e&l akm? pop top cover, remove bolt guide and fake bolt (all toolless so far) 2 nuts for the magwell spacer, 3 bolts for the hop, slide hop forward, one bolt to pull off the selector lever, one bolt for the grip then just wiggle the box out. or the aforementioned g&g f2000? pop the buttplate, 2 bolts, wiggle gearbox out the back. but goddamn an m4 when setup nice (read: not covered in 3 tonns of unnessecary crap) is a hell of a rifle to use.

Mp5 speedloader adapter Replica Surefire Suppressor One of those Aliexpress 3rd shift Sig Romeo 5 sights Some patches 1:6 scale model Hk416

That was about 21 for me, sadly. The struggle has been real since then, I sorted myself out in my 30s with restricted hours eating, lots of cycling, and some weights, but then I made the mistake of buying a motorised bicycle, and, oops, that was that. But as God is my witness, I will see my toes again. Absolutely, which is why it's so important to find a diet that you can stick to. I'm amazed how easy it's been to drop the bad carbs, after the first week. Hunger pangs and cravings have plummeted and restricted hours eating is a doddle. There's some evidence that just 3 x 10 minutes of interval sprints a week can have most of the health benefits of regular daily exercise, although that's not for me, I prefer moderate daily cycling. I would highlight the benefits of an indoor option like an exercise bike so that you don't have an excuse to skip it in bad weather.

It does make a lot of sense, and I've been recommending to my local site that they tape-mark DMRs in particular as otherwise there's no way for marshals and players to tell in game. I could run a lonnnng M4 at 1.1J, alongside a Mk23 pistol and barrel extended/silencer running at over 1.5J, and how are they supposed to know which one needs to respect a MED and ROF limit? (Segues into rant about Mk23s and CO2 pistols...)

No you’ve got him all wrong he’s going for the ‘dreamy , wistful’ approach to selling his guns , you know all soft filters and such like . So you can just imagine your self skipping through a field of wild flowers , shooting any fecker you can see with gay abandon ! 😳

The MK2 bolt is a pressure vessel and the MK3 is purely a striker for the MK3 shells which are the pressure vessel. Body is interchangable but the internals require modification to inter mix MK2 and MK3 parts

Must be awesome playing airsoft on a submarine

Can't comment on the prices although they seem high to me. The whole ad is just a mess though. Probably the worst pictures I've seen on the classifieds, smeary, no close ups so you can't see what he's selling, the pictures are basically the same photo. Then there's the description. Vague and lacking details that would really want to know when buying second hand gbbrs.

Had a bit of a relapse last couple of days. I've eaten like crap and haven't gotten out enough, haven't drunk enough water and had about 6 hours sleep in the last two days. Needless to say it's taken a physical and mental toll which can end up becoming a cycle as I end up beating myself up over it. I'll try to do better tomorrow.

that would depend on what you're using the gun for, how it currently shoots, and what areas of performance you'd like to improve. for example i could recommend a long list of things to check/change for improving range/accuracy but that would be pointless if the sites you play at have short engagement distances.

Yep, more important than terrain or structures, the quality of marshals influence how a day can go. They are the game masters after all.

I've learned a few new terms/words reading this thread, interesting stuff that I wouldn't have stumbled across otherwise perhaps. Anyhow... Six or so years ago I trained martial arts a minimum of 45mins a day at home in the week, 3 or 4 hours on a Saturday, plus two 2 1/2 hour mid-week classes, and the odd full day class at the weekend. I ate what the fuck I liked. I am not one for tinned food or sweets, but I did often make myself game pies in a large loaf tin and eat the lot at a sitting, with chips. I was just over 10 stone for years (5'11"). My teacher remarked that it was obvious who trained hard at home by what they ate when we all went out for a Chinese. The wiry lads who had a lot of strength ate huge amounts, including noodles/dumplings etc, the flabbier fellows usually ate a fair bit less. One diet/routine is not for everyone. For one thing, passed a certain age, diet alone will not keep that Dad gut away. For the time pressed, diet may have to lead where there is no time for exercise. Wish I was that fit still, partly as I enjoyed eating entire multipacks of crisps at a time and not getting fat. Hardly scientific I know, but observations nonetheless. Edit: Grammar

The longer I play, the more likely I am to select sites that have decent marshal crews.

see this is why cats are the superior pet- their shit may stink but that's a problem for 2-doors down when he's digging up the flowerbed

I shouldn't need it. I still have the original, and according to the paper test I have perfectly fine air seal between my nozzle and bucking.

Worked on my buddies KWA SR-16 yesterday. Its an old gun, so it needed work internally and externally. Internally it got a Gate Titan, a new M100, and while I am yet to test its range I have both Prommy purples and Maple Leaf Macrons for it should it need a bucking. Gears, shimming, piston, cylinder, and barrel were done by me a few years back and look fine. Externally he wanted to go two tone, so new G&P rail covers (I prefer the dimpled ones but the blocked were half off so he wanted those), new PTS EPG, new sling mount, and I loaned him one of my good EOTECH replicas, real MBUS irons, PTS EPM1-S, and my two tone Rogers Super Stock for the photo. Before: After: Also my Bingo m249 “Sunfish” is externally complete with the new optic. A fully trademarked 1.5x-6x ELCAN SpecterDR in bronze, with a RS ELCAN 1.5x-6x killflash cause this thing was pricey and the last thing I want is to have it shot out. For those of you who dont know Sunfish was my first HPA gun, and is the first m249 Bingo Airsoft Designs did. For those of you who watch AirsoftAlfonse, his HPA 249 is also a Bingo though newer than mine. We run them together sometimes. I bought it non-working and fixed it up over time, having no idea what I was doing. She has the oldest Polarstar LMG Fusion Engine in the US and possibly the world according to Polarstar themselves. They dont even make the solenoids for it anymore - I have to write up Polarstar and get them to make me custom ones whenever one fails. She recently got upgraded to Gen 3 electronics, and I custom wired in Bullgear equipment to use Bullgear m249 mags, so no more weak feeding box mags. I need to give her another once over inside in preparation for the Fall MilSim season - she seems to be using too much air and the spread is less than ideal. Hopefully its just a bucking change, but who knows.

I appreciate being chronoed in game, but marshals need to understand that they're looking for folk who cheated the morning chrono, not the victims of circumstance. Gas guns will creep up as the temperature rises. If you chrono first thing in the morning, gas guns that are are 0.1J under the site limit are 100% going to be over it an hour later. Either don't let them on the field, or be sure that whoever chronos them later understands this. The correct response in that case is to ask players to take it out of the game, and to offer a rental gun if you have any available, not to punt them off site. If there are multiple site chronos available, test on the one that gives the lowest reading - or else bin all of them except the one that give the highest. Grinds my gears, the number of marshals who don't know the first thing about what they're doing. [Rants about the marshal that didn't know how to read the Joules number off a chrono on a site that chronos in Joules]

Here a view inside the hop. Everything seems to be seated correctly. It's a modify hop, zci barrel, omega nub. Barrel is wrapped in ptfe tape to give snug fit inside outer barrel. Also using asg precision 0.4g bb

Couple of kitchen cabinet doors and two IKEA blue bags and a sewing machine should sort it.

sorry, must have missed this post last night. don't really have a guide, it's as simple as stuffing a tiny o-ring under the hop adjustment wheel to give it a bit of friction. certainly if you're wanting to push it to the point of short-stroking. the ak build i mentioned earlier was a 455mm barrel but it wasn't short-stroked. generally i tend to go with just don't change the barrel length so you don't have to start messing around with voluming, although it's perfectly plausible to run a shorter barrel than the outer to enable short-stroking.

With more info its a little hard to make any suggestions, but as a quick suggestion when it comes to the mapleleaf rubbers the omega nub can be a little too hard for some setups but ak2m4 had some omega nubs that were a softer durometer giving more sensitivity to the hop adjustment

Accidentally actually used some of my kit.

Er, sugars are carbohydrates. If we're talking complex carbs, why load your bloodstream with sugars before you have to? There does seem to be a fair case building that insulin resistance is the slippery slope to a whole raft of common Western health woes. I'd suggest that you can tolerate more carbs, if you're burning them off. The Tsimane people are the prime example of that, doing very well on a high-fibre, complex-carb diet, but a key factor is that they're constantly active so will be using the simple sugars as fast as they're being broken down. As above, when I'm doing a day airsofting (thread relevance) I do have some carbs at breakfast, although I can also get by perfectly fine without them on my disgustang excess body fat and plenty of water. Day-to-day, I'm sitting at a keyboard, with periods of cycling. Blood sugars begone, I'll have no truck with thee. I guess anyone lucky enough to have next to no body fat does need to carb load before exertion, but how many AFUKers does that describe? Airsoft day is also bacon day. It's got electrolytes, right? That's the Big Spud lobby talking. He really doesn't, he's not looked into this all that much, and it's hard to tell the science from the propaganda or woo. I mean, pretty much anyone can set themselves up as a nutritionist and make sweeping statements without either evidence or consequence. I guess the key thing is that if you're fat or lethargic, then whatever you're eating or doing needs to change. You won't know until you try. I tried some tortilla chips tonight, as an experiment, and now I feel bloated and bleurgh. Untry, untry.

I do internal style martial arts and have started boxing recently. I find that skipping and punchbag work are as good for cardio as running but a lot easier on the injured leg, whilst taiji keeps joints healthy and supple. High rep, low weight weight lifting is good stuff too, and dirt cheap if you get a kettle bell from LIdl or similar! Food wise, I'm on a low carb high protein diet with no sugar. I do enjoy a low fat scotch of an evening, but mix it with water rather than lard or cola, so it is basically an isotonic sports drink. The advice I would give is to spend on protective gear as you would in airsoft. Decent trainers if you run, decent gloves if you strike. I've too many injuries to list due to duff gear. The thing I find difficult is eating early enough. If I eat a huge healthy breakfast I'm set up for the day, but rarely actually do. I start the day with this ultra quick work out and then a few minutes with the medicine ball.

new video up! finally. Fix your H8R. @Gamble, you're a saint, thankyou.

So I put up an ad for a boneyard bolty to tinker with and some one replied asking me to email him replied saying he had a Springfield for sale pics he attached are from an advert for a springfield I purchased months ago...........