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I was hoping my lad would have been happy with his TM 416 but his new GBLS turned up today after the Cerekote job. No more!! 😬

@Tackle This guy is prolific

Hello, So, prepare for some ramblings of a seasoned and extremely jaded airsofter. I have played since.. Wow 2001ish with AEG’s and a Gspec but before that I used to play somewhere near reading with Rebel Troop with a TM Glock springer and 2 mags at some point in the late 90s. So, while I am no expert. I have seen the sport change and evolve ( perhaps not for the better but hey ho ). I have had most airsoft guns in one form of another, I was there when the chinasoft replicas appeared, making the sport far more accessible and when people suddenly discovered joule creep over the tried and tested.. Just use a 0.2 and you’re golden. I mean I remember when we didn’t even chrono and when crow scarers - £20 for 400 and a wind proof lighter was accepted pyro. ( I wish I knew more about ear protection back then but that’s a different story ) This is mostly about my view now on a Sniper with a bolt action vs a tuned AEG lobbing a heathy stream of BB’s. Then vs now. Back in the good old days everyone had an AEG with the biggest Nicad they could get away with and glorious Hicaps. We all ran Excel 0.2s and if you were fancy, you ran 0.25s and pretended you could really see a difference. No one had any clue about hops and an upgraded gun was a systema gearset, a tn barrel and a bigger spring ( tell me I’m wrong ). Everyone was equal and the sport was definitely more niche, I think had a better community but rose tinted and all that. Certainly, the availability of truly excellent sites was at its prime and the people running the events were doing it for the love of the sport, rather than the financial gain. That all has nothing to do with my ramblings but going back to everyone being equal. A 350 FPS on a 0.2 with a stock hop or biro mod for the roller if you were fancy. All ranged about the same, accuracy.. sure.. ish. When the TM G36 rotary hop appear on the market, there was a clear improvement over the normal M4 and AK versions. But for the most part.. It was a level playing field. Back then, your sniper rifle would have been measured on .2s. So we were probably running around 550fps by the time you had throw in some Maruzen .29 SMG bbs or the 0.5 teflon coated beauties. But the difference in range and the accuracy back then was noticeable. You hugely outranged everyone and could hit with relative ease. There was usually like a 20m engagement range and snipers were few and far between. Not like today when I see 15-20+ of them on a field. Flash forwards to today and my experience last weekend. I did try and help as many noobs as I can with actually setting the hops on their new guns or rentals. That shit seems get massively over looked and I like to help where I can ( not a total asshole ) I dusted off my tuned springer sniper. A gspec with all the innards running at 2.26Jz, new hop, running .45s. I had a sniper friend setup it up and for the last game, busted it out rather than use my perfectly tuned Systema PTW ( yes I am better than you ) and its mags of 0.32.s Now I had a lot of fun and that is probably the reason they do it but the difference between the range on my PTW and the range on my Sniper. When you add in the reduced firing rate and the forced engagement distance of 30m. It just didn’t feel like it was worth the effort anymore. I felt hampered and I got far less kills than I had gotten every previous game ( I’m amazing by the way, so i still got lots ) Yes, there was a wonder sense of satisfaction from landing a scoped shot and seeing it ping off a player but it just wasn’t as affective as the snipers used to be back when everyone else was running AEGs and .2s. Additonally, DMR’s just seem like a scam. People running them and spamming the shots regardless of what the safety brief told them, about how many bbs can be in the air at any time for that extra sweet sweet 70fps. Also far too many people running around with DMR and even normal AEG’s in Ghillies. Bushwookies all of them. Anyway. TLDR. Unless you are a sweat. I just don’t think with how good a tuned AEG is these days, that a spring sniper is worth the effort.

Update: Fitted the kit supplied by AK2M4, sadly the longer nozzle was out of stock so used a short green one. Up to 312 fps on .2g as the spring suggests it should be. Turned out Specna just had some bad air seal I guess 😂

I'd try and change your mind if I didn't completely agree. I've been ghillie sniping since about 2008ish (I still use webtex concealment vests as my ghillie base because they're great!) and general airsoft sniping since about 2005ish, eagerly navigating the field with my unupgraded Warrior L96 flinging "heavyweight" .25s; the kind of airsofter that I see so many people turning their noses up at nowadays. I definitely have similar memories to you, where you could really feel the difference in range between bolt action sniper rifles and regular AEGs and the community in general was better. I never remember there being any drama outside of when a bunch of kids in the year below me and my friends at school came around and refused to take their hits, but outside of that there were no dramas. Not even when I moved to Spain and we played with no marshalls, no chrono and not on any official sites because none existed; we were just a bunch of people who played BB wars in abandoned urbanisations. Again, no issues whatsoever. I remember I played alongside a pair of Germans who both had upgraded KJW m700s and their rifles outranged everything by a country mile. Nowadays when it comes to bolt action sniper rifles, you get maybe 15 - 20m over a well-tuned AEG. Typically, I zero my 1.14J rifle builds at 60m and an accurate 50 - 60m is the performance I chase, while my 2.32J bolt action rifles I typically zero for an accurate 75m, but with the ability to fairly easily hit the 85m target as well with a tiny bit of elevation. DMRs (my local limits are 1.88J) I typically zero to 70m with a 75m slight elevation target, so you can see the distance in ranges is minimal between the 1.14J rifle, the 1.88J DMR and the 2.32J bolt action. You can't even use the "a bolt action's strength is how quiet it is" any more, because HPA setups are quieter than most spring bolt actions. Combine that with saddling yourself with a 30m radius of "not allowed to shoot" and I can see why it's just... not great. Plus, it's very easy to angle an AEG and just spray full auto and you'll reach out to the same distance the sniper is trying to shoot. I have a friend who plays LMG who says "yeah, but I'll just angle my gun and I can hit out to 70m too" and he's not wrong. While you can angle your sniper rifle to get more range as well, it's a lot harder with a single shot and a bolt pull than simply squeezing the trigger and spraying full auto like a mortar strike So why do I keep playing bolt action and DMR? Personally, I really enjoy the long range stuff where it basically becomes archery and don't really care too much about body count. If I get a single shot at 85 or 90m, or a single shot that I post through some small gap in my first attempt, that's more enjoyable for me than going on some crazy 10 player killstreak. As one of the German guys I played with all those years ago said: "it's not how many you hit, but how you hit them". Also, excuses to use my pistol more are always welcome as I love pistols too, and a 30m MED forces me to use my pistol a lot, especially during summer where most of my local site is so overgrown it's unplayable with a 30m MED I also agree on there being way too many ghillies nowadays. I like using a ghillie with DMRs as well, because I tend to use my DMRs more like semi-auto sniper rifles and still play the same role as with a bolt action, but I hate seeing so many ghillie + HPA m4 combos, I do think most people who use DMRs spam the trigger way too much and I think there tends to be way too many bolt actions on the field sometimes. I blame social media for it, as people see the videos on youtube and think "wow, he got all those kills? I want to do that!". A lot of them aren't great, because they rely too much on their over-engineered suits, but it's still no fun to leave spawn and get laced up by a bush wielding a 25rps HPA m4.

Very shady site to say the least. Located in Switzerland, claiming to be TM, having a registered virtual address for Japan, Website was made not that long ago, dirt cheap. Reviews on the site seem rather suspect too.

Nova kits.

MWS pdw build.

Not an owner but I was once a 'freebie loving' bike journo. Genuinely never wrote/said anything I wouldn't say to a friend spending their own money but either way, I am no longer a journalist, so there's nowt in it for me. The issue with the DCT gearboxes is that in standard modes, they just want to rush to top as quickly as possible. It's very easy to find yourself in 6th at 30. With the gearbox in the sporty mode they're a bit better but still hit and miss - I used to put Africa Twins straight to S3 and they still felt about 10bhp down on the standard bike. They've definitely improved the changing gear seemingly at random/mid-corner problems they used to have but it's far from perfect and it only takes one really ropey shift to catch you off-guard. On the Wing, they make some sense especially if you use the crawl mode in traffic, but on the rest of the range I'd honestly just stick with the manual.

Bought a PDW stock for my MWS, it needs some DIY for it to fit on a stock lower.

It's exactly that. IIRC Beta Project made the old PTS PMags way WAAAAY back.

You can buy from TM directly, but only in person - and i think they might have stopped doing that. Impulse101 is a well known JP based shop that is used to dealing with overseas customers.

Blimey, he's in to everything, so many hobbies😏, he's clearly single lol. Seriously though, how on earth do you combat this ?, vpn's mean you can't hope to ip block, I'm guessing those aren't solely uk forums, so does it go back to blocking new members from certain countries or regions ?

The top hit when I search for "a lot of motorcycle for the money". Nope, I test rode one of the original NC700X manuals when I was scratching the adventure itch, but the downtuned and restricted engine did my head in, constantly running into the rev limiter earlier than you'd think. However, that was on a test ride when I was pushing on, which is exactly how I don't ride day to day. I went for a BMW F650GS (800 twin) instead but then in reality ended up short-shifting it and exploiting the big-twin-torque in much the same way as you have to ride the Honda. And the DCT will take care of much of that frustration anyway. tl;dr version - I'd take one for a long test ride if you can, and ride it the way it's designed for.

Incidently, if anyone is interested the fire selector issue was a bug in the GCS app for IOS. Gate updated the app and the issue was fixed.

Hello Mate, Good to see you round here! If you’re really interested, and I recommend you do explore Nova kits, try Boomarms. For a quick fix though, the EMG Staccato stuff is on point for the price. I don’t own any but from what I’ve seen in physical shops, the exteriors look pretty decent….again, for the price.

WE pistols do feel good .... full metal, good heft etc

It's A 100% not TM. TM only deal with customers and distributors in Japan.

Scammer

Lol. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know the owner (my older brother) and it has sat unused for over 6 years in his garage just collecting dust and not doing anything. Not entirely sure how many parts you could still get for it, being a G plate. Is also become one of those "born again bikers" that used to annoy me at the local greasy spoon meet ups. 😂😂 Used to live opposite a guy who had some aftermarket pipes on one of those, sounded like an anti aircraft gun on tick over...😂

That's a copy of the FEDA valve from Federal Concepts. I've got the FEDA fitted to my Noveske (GM nozzle) and it's absolutely spot on.

No worries, it's better than getting ripped off. It might just be old age and cynicism but I tend to think if something looks too good to be true it usually is

I'm new to the sport, and went with a Specna SA-E01 (which is an Edge, and not an "Edge 2.0"). Mine has basically the same guts as your new purchase with the Orion gearbox and 6.03mm barrel. Assuming the hop is the same in the 416 body as it is for the M4 (which i guess it must be as they are 99% the same), then based on how mine has been I reckon you'll be happy with it. I've been using Geoff's 0.25's and 0.28's and on its first two outings it's been easy to dial in the hop for different weights, has shot consistently and with decent range. I did change the spring to an XT M110, which due to a lack of time I chucked in and chronoed the night before the last game only to find it was a bit high. I ended up shortening it a smidge to get me within the 1.13J limit at my local site. I will try an M105 next time. I've stuck with the iron sights and zeroed them at about 20m using an M4 calibration target. Seems to have worked pretty well! People will tell you to forget FPS and speak in Joules, it's probably a good habit to get into. Good luck!

Game Maps, timings and objectives briefs are now live for Operation Iron Legion this coming Sunday 18th August, with actors and props to interact with too. Get all the intel on the link below and be ahead of the game. See you all at midday!! https://aceairsoft.co.uk/Operation-Iron-Legion.html

No idea if that site is a legit seller but they are nothing to do with Tokyo Marui. They famously have nothing to do with anything outside Japan.

Tokyo Marui only have (To my knowledge) one site. https://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp For a prolific company known to be out of Japan, I'd be sceptical of a website operating out of "Martigny, Switzerland"

Got a 2017 Suzuki dl1000 v-strom

20% import tax (total value of gun including shipping cost) plus handlers fees between £13 to £20.00. You are going to save next to nothing importing an give up any warranty. Also when you say buy from Tokyo Marui what web site are you going to? Airsoft Gun Tops | Tokyo Marui Airsoft Gun Information Site (tokyo-marui.co.jp) this is TMs only official site they don't have it sales.

Theoretical user has now refunded me so can draw a line under this one. Lessons learned though, I will be a lot more cautious going forward.

Some of the higher end metal slides are still super snappy. I have a detonator CNC slide on a HK45 and it's still just as good as the plastic despite the extra weight.

It'd be a shame if someone was to add the dickhead's e mail to a particularly dodgy mailing list

He is back

Dodgy delivery is the seller's problem, refund the buyer first and then handle your business if you know that the package is lost

A mis-match made in heaven.

So I got home early today and caught the wife in bed with my best friend. I went mad and called her some bad names and told her to pack her bags and go and live with her mother and that I wanted a divorce My best friend didn't get off lightly either. I told him "Bad dog Rover,bad dog!"and made him sleep in the garden.

Saw this on fb, seems apt to share it with my fellow old bikers

Doing a bit of maintenance and thinking about adding some Mosfets: Classic Army DSA FAL King Arms FAL Para JG DSA FAL

Fresh arrival. Lambda Defence GHM9, I either need to wait on the appropriate sliding stock coming into retailers, or just get the 5ku for it.