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@Beorn You can certainly get a good performer for under £300. Keep in mind that tweaking can improve or ruin performance. Best to wait until you have a backup before tinkering. Its not an exact science I'd suggest to find something that you like the look of and then search reviews followed by asking the forum for opinions. Remember that there can be variation in performance from different copies of the same model so take reviews with a pinch of salt unless there is a definite design flaw found. In theory the more expensive models should be more consistent between copies but up to a point. The performance of our airsoft toys is not linearly proportional to the price so don't let the cost influence you too much. The Honey Badger and Specna Arms Edge have good reputations so they both would be good options. ...Oh and as for space, after a few years you just keep them in a pile 🤣

Suffice to say that nothing in this thread has persuaded me to move away from a butt load of paper pyro. Apart from anything else I do so love showing myself up as the arthritic mess I am by attempting to yeet a bang at the enemy only for it to fall pathetically short and blow me up instead. Good times.

Haha feel your pain fella. I took out six of my team in a narrow corridor. Oh how we laughed!!☹️

Just had the PTW back from having a service and the finishing touches completed on a second upper. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

£54 Used including postage... or £39.99 New - (£43.84 including postage) from Tactical-kit.co.uk

@karlos103 Judging by your posts so far, you seem to have developed a classic case of 'upgrade-itus'. It's a terrible affliction, most contagious within the Airsoft community with a 75% infection rate between players (you need 'X' for that gun, mate!), an 85% rate within Airsoft shops (let me sell you this shiny thing - it'll double your range!), and most horribly, a 99.95% rate within the Tokyo Marui owners community (because TM is perfection out the box! Just needs a few upgrades...!) . Symptoms include wanting to 'upgrading' their gun without shooting it, spending more than the value of the gun in their quest to make it shoot amazeballs, a penchant to tell everyone how their 'upgrades' are the bestest and telling all others should be fitting the same to their guns. Infection long term generally ends with various degrees of disappointment (75% of cases), frustration (90% of cases), a drained bank balance (100% of cases) and questioning whether it was all worth it in the end to shoot tiny plastic balls at each other (80%). A very small number cases (<5%) report that the player reaches a type of 'Airsoft Nirvana', whereby all their guns work beautifully, reliably and the player moves past the need to acquire anything further. No one within the TM-owning community has been identified as reaching this state ...😜 Jokes aside: Cracking open gearboxes, replacing electronics, new barrels and hop units - upgrading everything without a frame of reference (i.e. playing experience with your gun in 'stock' configuration) could very well lead to disaster. Many upgrades could be described at best as 'side-grades', and there are a number that can be detrimental to performance. You won't know this if you've replaced a sizeable chunk of the stock parts on your gun without using it for a good few playing days first. Go out and play a couple games with what you have already - see how it works, where it falls short compared to other players, and what you want to improve. Upgrade ONE THING at a time, test it thoroughly at your next game day, and see if it actually improves anything. Oh, and circling back to your original question, G&G hop units (both dial and rotary) work just fine. No need to replace until broken. But we all know you'll want to replace it anyway.

So you want a smaller pew and have gbbr aspirations … sounds like you want an MP7 to me 😉

That's a break-barrel Airgun. More precisely - a Gamo G-Force Tactical. Source: https://www.daileisure.co.uk/gamo-g-force-tactical-air-rifle-with-red-dot-sight https://www.gunmart.net/gun-reviews/airguns/air-rifles/gamo-g-force-tactical-rifle Gamo Springers are fucking awful. These ones were only £100 new, but anyone who knows anything about airguns would probably steer well clear. You might be able to get £20-30 for it, but it's basically car boot fodder.

If it's just about transporting the VFC, it's a matter of seconds to split an M4. One screw at the front, push the pin, tug off the barrel fnar, and you've got two halves. [EDIT] Dammit, you beat me to it.

G&G Firehawk/Saigo Defense Ronin or something similar.

G&G ARP 556.

If I was unclear, I'm not advocating for a ban on BFGs. I have 4 of the things. I said I'd understand it. Pineapple on pizza is perverse. Not wanting to have to spend time dealing with lost-maybe-stolen BFGs on a regular basis isn't unreasonable. It would be better to identify and evict thieves, but short of that, removing opportunity is a very regrettable amelioration that can be applied. I'd be miffed if I couldn't use my BFGs, but I wouldn't stop playing because of it. Would you?

I remember seeing reports of other kit being stolen in safe zones, including helmets and pistols; should those be banned as well? After all, they could equally be considered “flavouring”. Banning BFGs because people might steal them is perverse. I disagree as to why we are at Airsoft sites. We are there to play a game; bangs, whether they are BFGs or paper pyro, are very much part of that game at sites where they can be used.

I know this thread is old, and I apologise for resurrecting it, but this literally just made me spit my coffee on my laptop Thank you for making me laugh this morning I was looking for upgrades that I dont need to my Wildhog CM16 and after reading this, ill just play until it breaks then look at upgrades.

Relatives of Jack Sonni were approached today by an Egyptian undertaker offering the recently deceased Dire Straits guitarist a complimentary funeral - all for gratis. He said you get your mummy for nothing, get your crypts for free.

For future reference, it's actually piqued, not peaked.

Yeah fair one.

Was more about the YT page content, he has several detailed video's regarding britains use & purchase of the AR15 series.

The rifle in the vid is the colt model 715. Later known as the C7. I built mine a few years ago with help from Jonathan ferguason. He's helped me out with my 604 too. Got another project he's helped with in the pipe line too haha. Just to bore you about hahaha. The 715 in the video is very unique. It has mainly A2 features. But the upper is odd. It has an A1 rear sight, but has a A2 brass deflector. Also another M16 A2 with the auto selection. Was originally bought by the sas, but is now in use with pathfinders, paras and royal marines. Here's the one I built while back.

So another British rifle added to the collection. To most its nothing special. "Just another M16vn"..... But here I have started to build a colt model 604. As issued to the British army in the late 60s, early 70s. Now the 604 is something of a Frankensteinian. It's neither a M16VN (XM16) or the later M16A1 (model 602). Main differences are compared to either the xm16 (VN) or the 602 (M16A2). The 604 comprises of a xm16 stock with a pivoting sling mount. Not the static version fitted to the later model 602. It also sports a partial fence. The XM16 was known as a slab side, where the 602 was a Full Fence. It also comes with an A1 barrel but still uses the early 3 prong (duck bill) flash hider. The British version also came with just plain export markings, aswell as being painted black with a paint called Suncorite. Now mine is still a work in progress. Ive had the markings filled. I'm still to source the correct rear sling mount, as well as the chromo smooth fake bolt. I then tried to replicate the suncurite paint best I could. As the real paint was just slapped on. I tried the same but in the pics looks smoother than it actually is. Only other thing is slings. Early version came with AR15 slings. But very quickly guys swapped these out for SLR slings. So will look at that in the future too. Next up. A British colt model 701. To most its just a M16A2.... It is, but not quite. Main difference being, the fire selection. The US issued A2 was colt model 702. Which externally are identical apart from the 702 was 3 round burst. Where the British issued 701 was full auto. Pictured here in use during OP barras in 2000. As far as I'm aware these where only purchased in small numbers, compared to the earlier colt model 715 (C7) which is still in wide use today. With mine, I've replicated the correct export markings along with with the correct "auto" one. Upper is just a standard G&P upper with a real A2 handguard.

ideal for holding your kit

I'd give the break-down a try, it really is a routine operation that can be done in seconds. Just undo the screw at the front of the receiver, push out the pin, and the top and bottom will separate. The tricky bit is not losing the pin, but you can put it back in the lower receiver. It's this easy.

Agreed, that's a project gun. And sorry, Charlie, I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the value really is dependent on a detailed description. Unless you know exactly what you've got, you're essentially selling a bunch of parts. For all we know, the internals on that are stripped out, or even missing entirely. The spare parts, case and bag shown there are barely worth the postage. There are exceptions, but again they rely on knowing exactly what you're selling. From what we (don't) know, I wouldn't pay three figures for the lot, including fees and postage. Someone else might pay that, and they may even get a real bargain. You don't ask, you don't get, but I'd be prepared for a lot of questions and potential buyers who mess you around and pull out. The more detailed pictures of markings you can provide, the better. Depending how much time you want to put in, you could find a local airsoft site (e.g. on Facebook) and ask them if you can bring it all along to sell. Airsofters are actually a helpful bunch, you might find people on site willing to dive in and tell you what it is, and what they reckon it's worth. It's always more tempting to buy something if you can get your hands on it. Best of luck.

KWA Eve 9

it seems to be a custom dmr built using the m4 as a base (looks ugly if you ask me). WE AEGS arent too popular either

I think ideally around the 3 to 400 or so mark, 450 as a stretch potentially. I'd like something with good out of the box performance as I'm not confident with any aspect of teching. Decent externals are a plus. Trouble is its hard to gauge value as a relative noob at the moment because the naming scheme for most rifs is quite confusing imo, and if you don't know much about airsoft internals trying to separate the wheat from the chaff is also quite difficult. I do look at reviews and stuff (ollie talks airsoft) etc for info where I can though

What's your budget? Without this information you could easily end up with a list of recommendations that aren't appropriate

id definetely go for a mk18, chop it in half then stuff it in the bag. im saving up for a north face duffel should be more than enough space and I wont get weird looks on the bus.

You don't need that much space, just be creative! As MK18s go, these are pretty decent: https://jdairsoft.net/primary/assault/0/daniel-defense-mk18-sa-e19-edge-carbine-chaos-bronze My neighbour has one and it's performing quite nicely.

Haha I don't have enough room in my flat otherwise I'd be tempted to hoard! I do prefer a MK18 style carbine sort of length I think, I can see the merit of one of those stubby bois but I don't think I even want to go that short really. I do really like the look of the TM 416C, but I don't think I can be arsed as I've heard the battery setup for those can be annoying and I don't really want to fuck around swapping it to deans and all that jazz. EDIT: Good point on the breaking it down thing, I honestly never even thought of the possibility but that could work. Probably still find some way to cock it up though knowing me I am not the most practical lol

Call yourself an airsofter? Where's your sense of adventure? 😁 That said, I've not used either of those specific guns but generally the Ares seems to be the one gun they make that people don't absolutely hate working on. The Specna should be fine too (I have an older SA-A03). As others have said if you want a REALLY short thing then have a look at the Firehawk/ARP etc from G&G but it all depends on what your budget is. Personally I'd go for a MK18 style but that's just my passionate hatred for anything with a 2" barrel (other than the MP5k of course). The other option to make transport easier would be to split the upper and lower for transport which will immediately make the whole thing shorter and easier to carry.

Theft of bfg's is only one issue that threatens sites allowing their usage, but over the years I've seen numerous people struck by them when they're used inappropriately. If a site banned them for that reason alone, I wouldn't be surprised, nor would I disagree, & I have 2.

As someone currently handling inheritance tax for an estate, I can assure you that HMRC have different views. ... and then sites get dragged into the process of dealing with it. It's not right, but it's pragmatic. After all, the substance of why we're there is to shoot and get shot: bangs are flavouring.

WE M4 mags will work fine but it was really designed for the WE pmags

Oh cool , yeah the box mag fits perfectly . Oh I did cut a space for the pipe on the feed guides like the one on the VFC mag too but a little larger

The regular box mag one fits perfectly . Although I did remove 1" of tube to relieve some stress on the connector

I love the smoke generators combined with flash device. Here is mine currently

@RostokMcSpoonsI've got two of the DE mosfets in my parts bag. Happy to sell them. They've been just sitting there but they were working when I took them out.

So sites should ban them because thieving cunts sometimes steal them? The "logic" behind that is somewhat worrying.

Quick pics on my living room floor (rug needs a hoover. Got to buy new hoover after motor burned out) Got a Theta Optics red dot on top, and a smoke generator suppressor on the front, with an Acetech Brighter R tracer unit fitted behind the smoke generator. Had to modify the suppressor by replacing the original fore end cap with one from a boneyard Spitfire tracer to give the needed clearance, plus removing the rear cap of the Acetech in order to fit the tracer unit in the suppressor casing. Gives an impressive effect, and certainly turns heads at sites. Don't have a video of the smoke effect... closest I have is an action shot from a game day after firing, as the smoke is being dissipated by the breeze Just looked. Out of stock

Mine came from SIXmm in Hong kong. Straight through with no issues. Took just over a week.

Possibly You'd be surprised, I've seen theiving little shits do some really dumb shit and try to talk their way out of it only to dig themselves into a deeper hole. That does sound like a good idea but if I saw someone nosing around at my gear without knowing what they're up to I'd be asking questions. Unfortunately there's no perfect answer to this senario but as long as the site is seen to be doing something that's the important thing. As you (I think it was you) posted in another thread, if nothing is done the only lesson learned is that there's no consequences

After a traumatic illness my doctor referred me to a peer support group. I didn't realise it would involve standing in the sea holding up a jetty.

Riddle me this: what happens when a site declares that it's going into lockdown and nobody is leaving until the thief hands over the stolen TRMR. ... when the "stolen" TRMR just rolled into a dark spot somewhere on site? Don't get me wrong, things do get stolen and I'd be happy to see thieves' hands removed. But before you go depriving people of liberty, you need to be sure of the situation, and consider the endgame. You're shopping at Tesco, and the tannoy blares "Mrs Miggins says she can't find her purse that was definitely in her bag when she came in, maybe, so we're locking the doors and nobody is leaving until you've all been searched." Reasonable? 🤷‍♂️

@Dan Robinson, shame to have missed you, my lad and I were orange team too ... can see the enemy through 30' of foliage, but not someone 5' away! My lad and I went for the afternoon, we got separated while going through the woods to try to flank the other team, he ended up lost for about 10 minutes trying to find his way back into play and we only caught up with each other back at the safe zone. I tagged along with a sniper and together we flanked round to near 1 of the towers, the sniper got tucked down in the undergrowth on the opposite side of the track to me, where he had a line of sight more towards the tower and my blindside, but could also swing round to his right, where I was covering 1 of the paths enemy players would be using to get to the tower, I was also able to cover behind us, in case their players tried flanking us or just happened up that way. Together we got a few kills and then I noticed an enemy player in the tower, so went for him. The sniper then shouted hit and a few moments later, I felt something on my jacket, unsure if it was a twig or BB, I decided to call it, walking back, we went right through the enemy team, so after respawn, we knew where to go and worked our way up, both hit again, respawned and went back to same are, where we, now with a 3rd team member eliminated those players. all too soon, the game was over though. Unfortunately, when we got back to the safe zone and caught up with my lad, he wasn't looking right and said he had a migraine coming on and he'd forgotten to bring some medication with him (I'll make sure he has some for next time), so he wanted to call it a day, but he did enjoy his game and managed a few kills too. Will be good to meet up with others and I'll keep an eye out Dan, or any others on here if you're playing when down this way.

Made it to Driver Wood yesterday, and have to say it is one of the best Safe Zones I've seen, clean, plenty of covered tables, decent food and toilets too. Chrono was effective - my new G36 was too hot, my L85 needed a few mags run through it to calm it down too. The game zone was pretty damn good too with plenty of vehicles to play around and in (including two Sea King helicopters and a London bus. I was rather miffed to discover that the non hit taker I was about to call out was in fact stood behind a fully rolled up window, and there was now two hicaps worth of BBs sitting in the back seat of the open window I was shooting through. LOL. Show's it's worth checking before making a knob of yourself and complain unnecessarily (see story below). Sadly I just couldn't get into the feel of things apart from the last game of the day. Not sure if it was me having a lot on family wise at the moment and not having the boy with me, or if it was the worry of my knee giving up (which thankfully it didn't). Certainly not the fault of the site. Games started off with a TDM, then various item acquisition and domination games. One criticism I do have though is that the attitude to spawn camping by the marshals was rather soft. Our team seemed to always end up pinned down to a certain extent, but to be fair the green team were much more organised and pushed forward much harder than our team at the beginning of each game giving them the upper hand. The best game of the day for me, was the Escort the VIP. Said VIP had to reach certain locations and stay there for 5 minutes before moving on. We had one amusing incident where I was helping him through the CQB area and we were firing as we moved. A guy (who was on his third day in a row thanks to NAF and possibly "tired and emotional") was rather upset that he thought we were on full auto whilst slot shooting him. We (then a marshal) politely pointed out that we were both on semi, and that shooting him through the slot he was hiding behind was perfectly OK, as well as the fact we were in the open at the time. His whining then went on to rate of fire, seeing as he lost all other arguments; and that the slot shooting rule was not explained to him properly. At which point the VIP and I just wandered off to have fun elsewhere. Especially ironic as his team were not the greatest at hit taking and we had been taking full auto hits all afternoon without moaning; plus there was some very dodgy hit taking and a lot of blind firing from one of his pals who was holding the big tower in an earlier game. For what it's worth the slot shooting rule is the same at every other site I have played, so why he thought it was any different here I don't know. My new fan-equipped eye pro, courtesy of @mightyjebus proved to be very effective. The only issue was the unavoidable "raining" on the lenses when the sweat was really pouring; but no amount of anti-fog is going to help with that unless wipers are fitted. A gentle draft across the lenses kept them nice and clear, with no problem of the eyes drying out. Pew of the day was the DE 904 - whilst a little short on range, the accuracy and shot consistency more than made up for it. Specna and L85 were working well, although for some reason BBs were veering off more than usual once they got past 30 metres or so. Shame to have missed @ASP383and @Asomodai, maybe another time? Will certainly try and get there again as it happens to be just off a short cut I take when I drive to my dad's house -so I have been driving passed it unawares for years LOL. I know the boy would love it because of the vehicles. One last amusing occurrence was a bunch of guys doing an paintball stag (judging by the outfits) do came up to me and asked if us airsofters were on some kind of military training - my reply was "nope just like you guys but with more realistic guns and better value for money" which is when I noticed their surprising collection of deactivated weapons for a picture - including what looked an awful lot like an AT4 rocket launcher and a Mauser anti tank gun.

Not rattle canned, but hydrodipped

I can see where you're coming from but the number of times I've been pwned by a rental would tell me it's not all pay to win!