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Thus many (most? all?) sites requiring anyone with a MED primary to also have a sub-1.13J secondary.

Isn't it obvious, he's a plasterer & he got to a job & realised he'd left his tools in the other motor, if he wanted to get paid he had to improvise with what he had in the boot. Simples😜

Reminds me of the time that SWMBO left the boy unattended with a catering sized tub of E45 cream..... Have a picture somewhere LOL Yep.... Looks about right 🤣🤣🤣

Personal fave by Studio 13 photography at Gunman Bravo

Not really. Yours is very, very vague, almost "how long is a piece of string" vague. This is what I mean. You already have a no MED "sniper rifle", which you don't seem to enjoy (if you were, you wouldn't have made this thread). Then you ask for a no MED "sniper rifle". That you already own. And that you don't like. You can get away with a basic M4, a good air seal and a good hop rubber, while retaining the fun switch. HPA if you can afford it and your site has the logistics to keep you going (compressor/fill station). As you can see there are a million + 1 possible answers to your "reasonable" question. No need to go full new age feminist in here. Not a good start. For silly, completely unnecessary "advice", Facebook and Reddit are great places where the various Skylar the bedroom techs will always tell you to use PTFE and sorbo pads and that high speed motors are better. I suggest you rephrase the question, this time with more details on what you actually want.

Gunman Namsoft at Alpha 2019(?)

Always liked this one, though I have had to drastically crop it to get around the max file size for posting

>Insert "show me where they touched you" meme here<

This came up tangentially a while back, and I'll just paraphrase what I said then; that the 'DMR' role - and it is more a role within a group than a personal strategy - is more a state of mind than about what particular gun you are using. My 'DMR' setup is a bog standard Lancer gen3 AEG with an ACOG on top, only internal mods are a new hop rubber and nub. I rarely stray into full auto, take considered shots, try and back up my team where marksmanship is required. The fact that I still have access to the Fun Switch if I happen to need it is all to the good. If you don't want an MED - and I don't! - then the world is your oyster, you can pick from literally any AEG as long as it meets the criteria for accuracy and your own personal aesthetic and ergonomic choices.

‘Painters radio’ certainly springs to mind 😂

Lurks in smaller than pistol calibre DMR. Mind you, if it’s good enough for the Israeli defence force, it’s good enough for me 689DEB9D-B1B7-4767-8323-93724441560D.webp

That is a very good point. It's interesting that even with the ebb and flow of users over the years, it's managed to (just about) hold the delicate balance of piss-taking and education without becoming something altogether more...churlish. I wonder if @Mack had any clue what he was going to inadvertently create here.

tis a curious system, don't think i've seen anything like it on other hobbyist forums but i can't deny for the most part it seems to work. ofc very easy for something like this to go south if folk don't approach it with the attitude of it being advice with a bit of humour rather than flaming folk for no good reason.

If I were king of an airsoft site, I'd mandate that for DMRs, with a 2 second delay. Then I'd test them all at every respawn. Then I'd just ban them all anyway.

Water + pork pies and peanuts. Eh, if you have no body fat. Simple carbs are just extra fuel on the fire for the rest of us. I guess this gets us back to the "Why don't sites provide free / at cost water" handbag fight again. [Winds up for a swing]

I run a G&G MBR556 as a DMR. I'm not going to die on this hill as don't have enough knowledge of "real world situations" (although as an airsofter I have to shoehorn in that I have shot RS in 7.62 and .308) but my understanding is that DMR's are often chambered in the same calibre as the main squad rife, just tuned for long range precision. As such modern DMR's are also found in 5.56 I will add that I have electronic "sniper delay" setup and only use 90 round mags. Combine that with some sites requiring as low as 400fps for their DMR players, I don't see how people could take issue with what I do, just because I don't have a SR25 style stock on my RIF.

Paint stripper - meet TM Plastics. Needless to say, that relationship did not end well.

As mentioned already, stay hydrated. I played on saturday and got through around 5 litres (which for me is a lot). I took a few litres frozen as well which meant I had lovely ice cold water. Something I would recommend considering with the hydration is some sort of electrolyte drink, I have literally sweated most of them out before and been exhausted from that as without the salts and minerals it's hard on the body to function, SIS in most tescos have tabs you can add to water, you can find them with the running gels, protein bars/powders. Try to avoid caffeine and energy drinks. I may have poured some of the water over my head to help keep me cool! It was a filmsim game at gunman tuddenham and the pace is a bit slower than a skirmish, lovely little chill time, sitting in the shade, feeling the breeze, even had a hare come up to about 2 feet away. Then think sensibly about your gear choices and clothes, chest rigs/belt kits etc are more comfortable in the heat that plate carriers. Don't be the guy wearing a hoody and wool balaclava (yes there were a few on saturday), if you are still getting tired - take a break. I know the site well and took the chance to wear high top vans instead of chunky combat boots, felt so much nicer for it. That was a risk but one I felt was worth it. Hats etc all help. Would also suggest sun tan lotion and bug repellant

Lightweight loadouts are king. I went airsofting on Sunday and had no issues whatsoever, but I was running a very lightweight loadout. Trousers, t-shirt, belt kit, no rig as I was using my VSR but could've run a lightweight chest rig if I needed to, and a simple cobra hood instead of a full ghillie. Keeping at least your back uncovered by extra layers, backpacks or load-bearing kit really helps you to keep cool as it allows you to sweat, then that sweat to evaporate which is how your body cools itself. If you have too many layers, you sweat but then that sweat gets trapped in those layers and you don't cool off as effectively (don't cite me on this, I am no scientist but this is what I've found through experience). I wouldn't want to play CQB unless there was some sort of environmental control to keep the temperature down and to cycle the air as it's going to get really, really stuffy in there really, really quickly; woodland is far better when it's hot because the air doesn't get stale and stuffy like it would at an indoor venue, due to being outdoors. The most important thing, so important that I give it its own paragraph, is keeping hydrated. Your body uses water to keep your body temperature at healthy levels, so while dehydration is really bad, it's worse in the heat and can lead to heatstroke (which can be life-threatening faster than dehydration!). I think I went through about 6 or 7 litres of water on Sunday. Fortunately, it typically it doesn't get too bad in this country. When I did airsoft in the south of Spain, we'd have to finish by 2pm because it just starts getting dangerously hot (hottest day when I lived in Spain I think was about 45 degrees celcius)

Just remember... In the winter well all be moaning about the cold, the wet, and how our gas pews don't shoot further than dog can piss. Hydration is the key.

I'll get some fresh sheets ready.

With SWMBO or out of the country I have access to a Louise Viton.... The DMR of handbags. Pucker up beeatch, and I'll Amber Heard you. 😜

Some might wonder how we'd notice. Some might say "I'm leathering it because I'm really tired" isn't exactly being careful, now.

No, it looks like Macks is doing it's job as a deterrent for idiots. Can't help those young'uns that use Discord and the various other websites to buy their Airsoft wares, but at least this forum is actively calling out the deluded, ignorant, or downright scamming sellers.

Usually shorter is only an option at 420mm, because most barrels aren't cut for m14 hop ups. However, the ZCI barrels have both regular and m14 hop unit cuts, so you could go with the 494mm and you won't have any issues. The outer barrel on the m14 hugs the inner barrel the whole way through, so I don't think you'd even have any issues with it being off-centre either. And it's not a stupid question. Even with me google searching these issues, I ended up buying a 509mm barrel from Umbrella Armory for a pretty penny to stick in my m14 back in the day, only to realise it didn't fit. It has been sitting in my parts drawers for years and I'm only now finally digging it out for my SR-25 build

I put a 3 litre platypus bladder in the freezer saturday night and took it to work yesterday (mainly for the commute rather than when I'm at work), it stayed icy all day and I actually took it to bed with me last night as a cold water bottle. Wrapped it in a t-shirt and just laid it on my chest. No bursting or splitting, or on the other one that's in the freezer now, though I made sure not to fill it 100% full.

Hydration, Hydration, Hydration! (Possibly the most disturbing Phil and Kirsty spin-off!) Spartan Woodland was bearable on Sunday. Light weight clothing, minimal load-out (I even took the AK with a high-cap incase I wanted to ditch the chest rig and GBBR mags....turned out ok) Marshal team were good at keeping the games shorter and giving a good turn-around time to re-hydrate. Cooler with ice packs for lunch and drinks was essential and worth it! I did take some extra instant cold packs in the first aid kit incase one of the "running around wearing all the gear and only drinking Monster" crew had a "I feel a bit funny" spell but everyone was refreshingly sensible. Remember, if you don't need to piss you aren't drinking enough!

Well, I took the plunge & now own my first Italian, & also my first twin, initial impressions so far are good, pulls like a train (even with my fat arse on it lol) & generally feels great. Only 20 miles done this evening but I've got a pre-op on Thursday so I'll do another 100 then, mostly winding Country lanes so good opportunity to test the handling 😁 & yeah I will be losing the cissy backrest 🤮

Couldn't resist.

Diet Irn-Bru is piss. Irn-Bru XTRA is where it's at!

didn't think the Israelis would have fell for the zip-22 marketing hype.....

Yes, fully agreed that there is a lot of scope for people taking the piss with pseudo-DMR builds, hence why it would be better IMO to encourage the culture of changing your playstyle rather than the gun. We could probably do without DMRs (meaning semi-auto, high FPS builds) entirely in game terms.

From a private seller, wasn’t able to check it properly but dry fired it and it was fine, wasn’t in a position to be able to cycle bbs through it sadly. Regretting that now. I’ve had it in bits today and put it back together to make sure it’s nothing obvious. Still the same. I think I’ll need to get the gearbox open as you guys have said and see what I can see in there. Would it be easier to replace the gearbox? I suppose then the question of suitable replacements pops up. I had started stripping it at the point I took the photo so I think that’s why they are so obvious in the photo as I had moved things around

Completely unrelative to the physics of airsoft, but IMO completely necessary from a REAL Imitation Firearm - a DMR should have real world validity. That being 7.62/303 or 6.5 etc. Or if 5.56 etc then at least 18” barrel. Amongst others it’s why I don’t like MK23 carbines.

It's 500mm. 550mm will fit, but it'll stick into the flash hider / suppressor if you use one a little. Outside of ZCI barrels, that are cut for m14 hop units as well, most 550mm barrels wouldn't work in an m14 anyway because the hop up unit is weird.

As far as I know yes, but personally I'd get it onto Luke at Negative Airsofts waiting list!

Absolutely. That and a Maple Leaf rubber and nub and a patient and methodical approach to stripping it down. I've put a Rocket 28TPA motor in ome of mine and that has improve the RoF quite nicely too.

The day before I go airsofting, I put my hydration pouch in the freezer. Works a treat everytime.

2 years old, but just found this and figured as I have experience with both (Buying the army A1 to test the rail on the ICS), it does not fit without some major filing and adjustment that overall isn’t worth it compared to getting the Madbull DD and adapter. The AA rail is thinner than what is needed for the ICS rail.

I would say so. £25 isn't a huge investment for a stainless steel barrel

Too hot for client work, not too hot to dick about with my own little projects. Today I made a packing piece out of brass plate for my FNX, to go around those awkward exposed tabs:

This is an easy one , EVERYTHING I’ve ever bought has at some time or another fitted in both categories ! TM recoils recond to be possibly the best stock AEG you can buy ? , yup I’d say so that is until you take them to a gameday then realise You've picked up ‘normal’ mags not the recoil ones and no one has any spares on site ! 🤬 New all singing all dancing plate carrier as used by seal team 6&3/4’s that you got for a screaming bargain price ? You know it’ll up your game by at least 200% ! Well it would have done if the first gameday you used it on hadn’t just so happens to be the hottest day in recorded history so you cook for the 1st two games 🥵then spend the rest of the games with either your pockets stuffed with mags or a couple of hi-caps !🤦‍♂️ And so on and so fourth ? 😭

“Yea when I was in Nam , Birmingnam , it was hell ! it was hell I tell you ! YOU WEREN’T THERE MAN !”😱

Had to be done weighty beast test firing tomorrow

Black and white you say ?

No disputing it's a cool bit of kit, but it's not cheap for an occasional Airsoft loadout that's fairly limited in its use, for example, no Hydration capabilities, would I want to wear a full suit just to achieve the "look" at this time of year ? 😜 PS, wasn't there an rmp covert vest not unlike that for considerably less shekels ?