Recent content by Colin Allen

The forward assist ruins the aesthetics of an M16.

I am keeping it for now anyway. The new gearbox is a QC one, which makes tuning the power easier, even though the gearbox has to be out of the receiver to change the spring.

That isn't an unreasonable price for it. Production output was limited and they were very expensive. However, is it a crazy price for a toy gun? Of course it is.

Extreme Airsoft have one for £224.99, so he is selling a used gun of indeterminate vintage at 89% of retail.

I was just looking at that; I was more impressed that he had managed to actually get something from Special Airsoft Supplies.

Indeed. It was covered in mud and cycled at about 4rps; it has been thoroughly cleaned and has a new gearbox with a Perun Hybrid, a 31k brushless motor, a ZCI rotary hop, and a new barrel. I am just trying to work out the correct nozzle length for it. Everything apart from the nozzle came...

After a fair amount of cleaning and fettling.

No pictures yet, but I bought a boneyard G&P M16VN for £90 today. It is currently in bits on the workbench awaiting reassembly with its new parts, all of which came out of my parts box.

Some G&G rifles had the same feature.

On a real one it is the forward assist, which can be used to fully chamber a round if required. On your replica, it does nothing.

Good spot!

Either way, he is a wrong'un.

The Haix Commander GTX boots are very decent. A good buy.

From what I understand, they design and DE manufacture, although it is possible that they use more than one OEM.