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What’s your thoughts, decided to move to GBBR and would never go back 🤣 was good out of the box put a few upgrades in it and it’s even better

Since January, I’ve been doing a lot of research on the TM G17.5 and now have 4 of them. As a result, I’ve been buying and trying new things on the market. I thought it might be useful for a thread with the parts available and what works, what doesn’t. Here are two that I’ve finished. The other two are still waiting on parts. The only upgrade part I’d say is required, is an uprated hammer spring if you’re running green gas. All of my G17.5s light strike when running green gas/propane. The stock slide is carbon polymer so *should* manage fine with green gas. uprated hammer springs: Guarder - not sure Cowcow Tech (CCT)- 120% The CCT full spring set is about £15 from Empire. Pro Arms also do a spring set but doesn’t include hammer spring. Everything else is pretty much optional. I’d also recommend upgrading the piston lid and nozzle return spring. CCT do a piston lid CCT and Proarms do nozzle return springs. Both are good. The Proarms pack is better value for money IMO. Slides that I’m aware of Detonator (all drop in, no modifications required): G17 - standard G17 - boresight solutions G34 - TTI Detonator also do a couple of limited editions specific for the South Korean market… but you’d need a mate in South Korea to buy you one and ship it. Proarms (all drop in apparently - not tried them though): G17 - FDE/black cerakote Wii-tech: G17 - standard - steel or aluminium (both with steel barrel) - G17 - tactical - steel or aluminium (both with threaded steel barrel and 6.03 TBB) note: the aluminium slides were drop in. The steel slide I’ve been sent does not work and Wiitech are looking into why. Mafioso: Full steel G17 kit - required modification to the TM BBU to work. Guarder: Not yet released but the steel slide kit looks promising. 5KU: Aluminium standard slide kit - haven’t tried but heard 5KU quality has improved recently. Outer Barrels: none of the aluminium threaded outer barrels worked with a metal slide and tracer for me. But I’m sure I’ve seen people on Reddit using theirs with a tracer. The aluminium barrels work with the stock slide and a tracer. Detonator threaded outer barrel Proarms threaded outer barrel C&C tac threaded outer barrel w/Roland style comp. Other Accessories: JDG do a very cool magwell. JDG also do magazine extensions for V2 mags. Bomber do a TTI style magwell. Guarder, CCT and Wiitech do aftermarket recoil rods guarder does the serial number delete plate. it sounds like Guarder might be doing steel internals and also a nylon polymer aftermarket grip. MOS sight plates Detonator - version for RMR/SRO. works well, good fit. Bomber - Version for RMR/DPP/ACRO. Can’t comment on the ACRO or DPP but the RMR is a good fit. Angry Gun - Versions for RMR/DPP/ACRO. Can’t comment on the DPP but the ACRO and RMR are good fit C&C Tac - RMR only. haven’t tried but looks similar to the angry gun version 5KU - RMR only. haven’t tried but their quality has got better recently. Revanchist - RMR only. Probably the most disappointing of the lot to be honest. Fits well. But very basic design compared to all the others. Iron Sights detonator: Photo-reactive high sights. tarran style fibre sights. pro arms: tritium high sights. They’re quite expensive… but when have tritium sights been cheap? wiitech: Aluminium low sights aluminium high sights with a couple of different options. Things to avoid: I’d recommend avoiding Gunday. I bought a set of sights and Magwell off them. The sights can’t be fitted without drilling extra holes into the slide. The Magwell requires modification to the frame… if anyone else has feedback, it might be good to feedback here to help people avoid lemons or buyers remorse.

Technically a scale model but built this today... 4X20 scope for my AR15 family, just for the looks & on a budget.

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My Glock Collection so far...just need to find a KJW G26 so I can use a green guarder frame I got on the forum, swap the cut lower on the Glock 17L for a standard frame and get a green gen3 18 and should be done for now. How many is too many, is there a number in this hobby?

Newly acquired DE N4. Immediately replaced the nozzle with a GM 3.5 (with DE piston head) so I could fit the Jaeger NPAS. Barrel swapped for a Crazy Jet 345mm, because I couldn't find a 350 in any reasonable timeframe - Silverback GBB 60 Degree and Titan Nub for the hop. Paraphenalia on the externals are Irregular Designs inspired cheek riser, Vector Maverick Gen III on a clone unity micro mount, PTS Dead Air Sandman-K (tracer type), Magpul AFG and an M300 clone. SP Systems HPA adapter, which miraculously didn't need the router changed, despite it being a T8 platform one.

Nice is that MWS? what adapter is that? Thanks.

to be fair, I have a cherry Red Cherry G17 gen3, so midnight brown is quite conservative 😂 yeah. You can’t control how quickly they get through the orders.

Last weekend we took part to the National Finals... A 26h nonstop game that lasted from 8 AM on Saturday to 10 AM on Sunday. 1200-1700m above sea level elevation. Overall performance wasn't the best but we didn't really care, we went for the experience, in any case we ended up 15th out of the 20 strongest teams in country.. Few things learned (kinda, some I already knew): - the right clothing is crucial to not end up like a popsicle, in particular it got VERY cold Saturday night/early Sunday morning with temperatures just above 0°. I had packed a puffy jacket just in case and it turned out to be a lifesaver during pauses from marching/playing. Started with just my combat shirt on, added my thermal baselayer and windshirt at dusk and kept it this way throughout the night. A beanie was used too, whereas my gloves stayed in the backpack at all times. - thermal sights are OP, in fact combat objectives went so much better at night than during the day.. NV would have been nice in some instances, but we made do without. - I need a lighter poncho, the one I have is so heavy I left it in the car (took the gore-tex shell instead), on Saturday morning we had rain so heavy it felt like I had jumped in a pool in full kit luckily it was windy too, so I dried up pretty quickly.. - with these temperatures I only drank 3 litres of water in total. - Proper boots do make the difference, I don't think I would have been able to get to the end with my old Crispis... The new La Sportivas are much lighter, much softer on road/paths and definitely more breathable. - I barely ate anything, just one energy bar and some dried fruit along with a hot dog at our own objective (sort of a one-use safe space).. - New backpack is awesome, it's the right size for these events (15 litres) while being mega comfortable. We still have plenty of room for improvement, should we qualify next time we'll try to be more motivated and more prepared, both physically and mentally.

Got one of my G17s back from West Laser. Posted it on Monday. Arrived back today. I highly recommend them 👍🏽

So I bought my second GBBR…

Next up on my holographic hit list! EOTech EXPS3-0 this time. This one is pretty cool 😎 Never thought I'd own a real one of these but here we are

Got to be the UH-1 on that build for me. Picked up a new stock to further stubbify my stubby AR build. The steel bolt feels like it’ll dislodge fillings with the extra compression the the short buffer tube gives the recoil spring!

Thought I'd see what all the fuss was about 😉