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If you want to upgrade your hop then as the other person says, go for it but again if it ain't broke dont fix it. My G&G HK416 is still pretty much stock and shoots well though i too have been considering changing the hop. If you do i would say that a flat hop will be much better than R hop. whilst R hoop will give a better range the time and effort it takes to fit is a butt whilst a flat hop can be done easily. Heres a youtube video on how to do it:

Hi mate Not to plug my own video but i have a disassembly video for the G&G M14 EBR short version, ignore the bit about the EBR body work however the rest of the gun (barrel, gearbox etc) is relevant to you. If its only the outer barrel, upper and rear stock painted then i would recommend you disassemble the gun and strip the paint from them. You can use an aggressive stripper (lol) on the outer barrel as thats made of metal and won't be harmed by the stripper, the upper blue bit and rear stock use Fairy Power Spray otherwise using an aggressive stripper (lol again) may melt parts. I used an Aggressive stripper on my Kriss Vector and it melted certain parts so had to do a complete spray paint job on the gun. You may find that once you have stripped the gun it will look stock again and thats as far as you may want to go. I would recommend your prep your working area to ensure it is clean, sand lightly and wash the parts to be sprayed, apply 1 coat of primer and allow to dry (ideally 24hrs), sand down lightly and apply more primer, allow to dry, do at least two coats of primer and sand it again before Spraying colour. Spray the colour you want and allow to dry same as primer, apply at least 3 to 4 coats of paint with light sanding between coats. Once you have a sufficient number of coats on it you can apply some lacquer to the spray paint to protect it. I spent a a small amount each day for a fortnight, prepping the work area, cleaning and washing parts, priming, sanding, spray painting, sanding and applying lacquer to my Vector and now it looks the mutts nuts a sort of two tone sparkling black and bronze look it still has a few rough parts here and there from the aggressive stripper, nothing i can do about that but on the whole it looks great.

Yah i think his gun is quite old TBH. About the TR4-18 i forgot to add that i teched mine up from the day i got it. The first thing i did was remove the MOSFET they installed and put in my own GATE Nano AAB MOSFET in there instead so no more MOSFET problems for me, i also shimmed, regreased etc etc the rest of the AEG so it shoots in a perfect line witha good 120 foot range on it using .25g bbs

Hi If you are only trying to Zero your scope at home prior to going to a field and rather than do it there and dont want to scare neighbours then I can advise you on a Laser Bore Sight, its simply a laser pen fitted with a long rod and then using the right caliber plastic bit you slot it down the barrel, turn it on and zero your sights to the laser. This is a cheapo one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Laser-Bore-sighter-0-177/dp/B00DSKLQFC/ref=pd_cp_200_0 Though you can find more expensive ones like the Bushnell one for £75. I had a VSR-10 and was having issues zeroing the replica scope then remembered i bought one years ago for target shooting with the Air Training Corps (used to be an RCO).

Let me know how you get on, its sounding like Beesting it is

I throw my two pennies in: ICS: cant't say, i never owned an ICS through my friend does and hes had nothing but trouble especially with that split gearbox, all it allows you to do it quick change the spring and check the AOE but you can do that with; Krytac CRB: Good gun out of the box (mine is still in its box, havn't bout a case for it yet), well made, built in MOSFET (though its only a single signal wire version), quick change spring etc. My only gripes are the pistol grip looks like it comes from an LPEG so change that, the flash hider is made from plastic and is glued on. G&G CM16: Good gun for starters though the receiver is made from plastic unlike the other two which are metal (i am assuming for the ICS) however the gearbox is made the same as G&Gs GT Advanced range so already reinforced and radius'ed with decent gears and motor. It will be enough to get you by. GHK A5: i know nothing about this one So if i were you: Money no object = get the Krytac Money is an object = Get the G&G I will also throw a fast ball and say have you considered the G&G TR4-18 series? I think its slightly cheaper than the Krytac, has a built in double signal wire MOSFET (IMO much better as motor wires completely bypasses the trigger contacts), has a nice if useless pneumatic blowback feature, Given the choice i would probably choose my TR4-18 over my Krytac CRB any day. Anyways heres a review video i made of the Krytac CRB:

TBH i am also leaning towards Beesting as they seem to do full kits. As i say this is a long term goal, i plan to amass the funds (looking to save budget of £1500) for gun, Polarstar system and a scuba tank for refilling, i have a local dive shop in North London in the area that i work in that does full tank refills for £7.

Hi while i cant say anything about the transport of RIFs to the UK from Bulgaria i would say just do the above checks as people above have mentioned. As for sites you say you are in East London Zone 3 Other sites i would care to mention are Dragons Lair Airsoft and Billericay Airsoft as they are fairly nearby. As for Shops i would point you towards Airsoft Zone in Romford though they are very strict in players having UKARA

So guys I am planning to build a DMR type weapon sometime in the next 6 months and have decide to dabble in a HPA system and so base it around that. Bare in mind that i haven't even selected the gun to be the base weapon so its still early stages at this time, so far the only thing i have decided upon yet is that it will use PolarStar. So far i have found athe following UK PolarStar suppliers: Beesting - based in Manchester Grange Airsoft - Coventry Airsoft Emporium - Halifax Of the above 3 only Beesting and Grange Airsoft are mentioned as official Dealers on Polarstars website. So my question to you guys, have you ever bought or dealt with any of the above companies and which one would you recommend?

Trust me i lost about 3 hours of my life tearing down that gearbox and reassembling it trying to figure out why it kept locking the piston to the rear on full auto and the only way to set the AEG back to ready was to put the gun into safe to decompress the spring, every fffing shot on auto it would lock but on semi it worked fine ?? It was only when i pulled the piston out and placed it on my desk standing up in despair that i noticed that it was slightly longer than the original which may i add had its teeth ripped out by the gears (whose teeth also shredded) when my mate decided to use an 11.1 LiPo on stock gears.

Hi mate i am guessing this is for your SCAR-L? I did some tech work on my mates WE SCAR and found the out of box performance a bit pants (around 280 FPS). Yes i would say the spring also feels weaker than a M100 spring, it was one of the first things i changed in his gun when i upgraded it. As for the piston what i will add is that the WE AEG gearboxes are very sensitive when it comes to the length of the piston, I replaced the original piston with the Mad Bull Alien Green one and could not for the life of me figure out why the gearbox kept locking up on full auto. It wasn't till i measured (with a digital micrometer) the Mad Bull one with the original one that i noticed the Mad Bull one was about half a millimeter longer, when i installed another piston about the same length as the original it worked fine. But yeah, clean the screw and screw hole, add loctite, put it back together, let glue dry and test fire a few shots.

Hi mate, sorry to hear that your 551 go shot to bits, there are no replacement parts for it, looks like you will have to throw it away an get a new one. I would recommend this: http://airsoftzone.co.uk/accessories/scopes-and-red-dots/pc-eotech-lens-protector-guns-modify So far it has done me well is and currently protecting my real steel EOTech 552 sights, it can be a bot of a tight fit so you have to remove the hood and basically slide this into place.

I know its not exactly the latest gun in term on Airsoft but this is my stab at a review for it, keep an eye out for the disassembly and reassembly video soon. https://youtu.be/_QmCzqee2mg

Hi bit late coming but i finally got round to doing the MP5 video review as well as touching on the MP5 RIS Rail compatibility and the safety lever issue too, see it here: https://youtu.be/_QmCzqee2mg

Right update was required. So After waiting ages to get the Vector and starting to worry a little I decided to call them up on 27-05-15, spoke to one of their members of staff and i informed them of my decision to cancel my order for the Vector but send me my other items (some 8mm blanks) that remained on the order. With what i can only call as a "sigh of relief" from him as he sounded like a massive weight (of annoyed Vector customers bugging him because of no Vectors) had been lifted from his shoulders he stated that he was happy to cancel the Vector from the order, refund me the £330 and send the 8mm blanks to me, a day later the blanks arrived Is it OVER! Oh no it wasn't So back in the market for another vector i began scouring Online shops here and abroad, they were either too expensive or out of stock everywhere, eventually i began perusing forums, none here of AF but saw a few decent sales on another, contacted the sellers asking basic info etc whilst waiting for the money to be refunded. Got a few deals going and close to finalizing a sale but was still waiting on the money to be refunded. On 02-06-15 called them back asking where the hell was the refund after 6 days of waiting and was told that they had done it, on the 09-06-15 was still out of pocket of £330 bearing in mind that it was almost 2 weeks since i cancelled the Vector order and still no refund! :@ I called up on 09-06-15 and question the staff there until one of them ended up checking there merchant system to see what stage it was at and then told me that it was pending still, it wasn't until the late afternoon on 10-06-15 that i recieved my money, a full 2 weeks since Vector Cancellation. Furthermore when i called on 09-06-15 and enquired if the Vectors ever did arrived they said no, they were still waiting on them. Sufficed to say guys stay away from them for anything Airsoft related, that said i may still use them to get 8mm blanks but its rare i buy them so dunno if i will ever use them again.

Hi See here for Wires, you need to search for PTFE or Teflon or Silver Wires when searching ebay, they are harder to find than crappy Silicon Wires which i find are too thick for V2 Gearboxes, its a little stiffer and therefore harder to route but once bent in place it stays there. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Hollow-State-Electronics/cable-wire-/_i.html?_fsub=1754266013&_sid=22307073&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322 That's where i get my wires for Airsoft from. Specifically this one for black wires: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-19-0-3-PTFE-teflon-silver-plated-copper-wire-/381194589922?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item58c0f7d6e2 And this one for red: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Red-19-0-3-PTFE-teflon-silver-plated-copper-wire-/171688283142?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27f96b4c06 as for the air nozzle i think it definitely is a normal M4 one, cant be 100% sure as i dont own the SCAR AEG (such as the one seen in the video, its actually my mates).

Hi buddy I recently had a WE SCAR L AEG in which belonged to my friend and i did the following upgrades for him (off the top of my head from what i remember) Battery connectors changed to Deans Installed a GATEs Electronics PICO AAB (this has active braking but they have no AB models too) Used low resistance silver wire and rewired it (i think i used 16AWG but can't remember) Guarder M110 Spring (with a few coils cut off on the piston end to keep it under 350FPS) SHS Piston (i think its the blue one with metal teeth) G&P Xplosive Piston head (it has given me top notch air seal and compression) Tefloned the Cylinder head New Air Nozzle with O-Ring (Can't remember the brand) G&G Original Torque gears (More on this later) G&P M120 High speed motor G&G Cold resistance hop up rubber and bucking Madbull Black Python 6.03mm TBB Tefloned taped the inner barrel to stop wobble Polished the inner barrel Overall it looks like you have all the bases covered, my friends one now shoots between 340 to 345FPS with an average 18RPS. I will add that if i were you change them crappy WE gears stat, i manage to strip the teeth off his gears whilst testing the gun for him once. Lastly here is one of my earlier videos regarding the SCAR. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuHanEfo2GMumFmihTyIItWbos-2dM1Vt

I'll keep you guys posted on the outcome of this company, see if they can delivery.

Finally got whats appears to be a generic "sorry we are still waiting for the Vector email" today. Dear Customer Thank you for being patient with your order for a KWA Kriss Vector. We had hoped to have shipped out all the orders we have for these by now however we are still awaiting delivery ourselves from the UK distributor. The last update we had was that they had arrived in the UK, had cleared Customs and were on the way to the distributor. We have been told to expect our delivery shortly which in turn means we shall ship your order out immediately. We are sorry if this delay is inconveniencing you and will happily offer a refund to anybody who wishes one. You might have noticed that we have now removed the KWA Kriss Vectors from our website, this is simply because we have sold all of those we have on order and as KWA no longer make the vector we shan't be getting anymore in the future. Kind regards The Dorset Gun Company Ltd 01202 980204 So still a wait

Other than the crappy parts the rest of the gun is well made and meshes quite nicely together, the lack of rails does not bother me too much especially as a lot more accessories will come Keymod ready in the future and i like the sleekness of having no picatinny rails except where they matter. For the time being i am looking to get a better pistol grip, a Magpul AFG, some Magpul MBUS sights, and maybe a DBAL to complete it and a Magpul sling, obviously some of these will be clones.

I don't mind it so much as where i play there is little to no stealth involved, its just a plain skirmishing site where everyone charges at each other lol. That said i do hope they make it in a much smaller form as lugging an M203 is gonna be a pain, hopefully they can put it in something much smaller such as a PEQ box of sorts.

Hi all I was wondering what you guys though of The Dorset Gun Company? http://www.dorsetguncompany.co.uk/ Have any of you ever bought from them or even been to their shop? I know your wondering "But they are a gun company" and whilst that's true they were selling Airsoft Guns (more on why later) So i was in the market for a KWA Kriss Vector when i stumbled across their site, as the only place in the UK that showed to have the Vector as "IN STOCK" for £330 i placed an order for one on 13-05-15. Expecting it to be shipped the next day it showed just as processed, it wasn't until 15-05-15 that i called them asking the status of the gun to learn that they had a few on their way, that should have arrived on 13-05-15, that they had been unloaded from the shipping container, passed customs and were due in the store soon, once they arrived they would shipped to the customer. I was also told that they would be emailing everyone that ordered one on that day in an hour or so and assured me that when they do arrive i will be getting one. 4 days later and no email (both inbox or spam) on 19-05-15 i called again asking a) what happened to my email i was supposed to get a few hours ago on 15-05-15 and if the guns had arrived. Sadly no guns and the staff i spoke to said that he would email me first thing next day, next day nothing Their staff told me that due to the orders on the Vectors and the fact they had not received them yet and to stop people ordering them he had removed them from the stores catalogues. I sent them an email on 22-05-15 at about 1000Hrs so they had most of the trading day to reply but not heard anything, do note that i have already had the money debited from my account by them trading under A1 Airsoft. So here we are on the 23-05-15, more than a week later and still waiting for the guns to be apparently shipped from the containers to their shop, in that time I have managed to order some thing from Hong Kong for about the same amount and it arrived a few days ago. Pulling some investigative skills in i decided to look them up and have found that the company is registered at one address but trades from another about half a mile away in a new shop only opened in January 2015, i also noted that they used to trade as A1Airsoft which is now permanently closed try their website, it returns an error and even google lists it as CLOSED. So have you guys had any dealings with The Dorset Gun Company or their former company A1Airsoft? what were they like? TBH I don't get the Vector by the middle of next month i will call it quits and seek to get a refund (if i can that is).

I don't know if its ever been mentioned but this is something i have been following since i got into Airsoft. I have noticed (like most of you too) that whilst Airsoft guns look real, GBBs have recoil, even some AEGs (albeit very light) and shoot lil BBs they lack the noise of a real fire arm, as someone who has fired various live firearms i can tell you that the lack of gun fire report noise is missing from Airsoft. Whilst i appreciate that other Airsoft Manufacturers have created amplifiers they just make loud noises at best, this on the other hand actually sounds like gun shots. Anyways its has been almost two years in the making and it appears that they are finalising the product for sale, head to their Facebook page and show'em support and hopefully they will be hear in the UK soon. https://www.facebook.com/bltechnologyNZ

So when we thought Pro Airsoft Supplies were going down hill they shoot back and start selling Krytac AEGs, seeing this and having heard Jonathan Higgs of Airsoftology bang on about Krytac so much i decided to go and get a Krytac for shits and giggles. Retailing around £295 i managed to get it for £280 (5% discount) as a member of the Emergency Services, so having got home, played around with it a bit I decided to do one of my review video, Enjoy! Airsoftology, KRYTAC CRB Review:

Hi LordGeorge I think if i am correct you watched my Video on the WE SCAR L on youtube and made a comment about CNC machined V2 gearboxes shells? Let me just say that i think you are over tweaking this gun (no disrespect intended) as the WE Scar does not like to be opened and closed time and time again (trust me i know from experience from the SCAR L). If your gun was hitting 350FPS on .2g BBs consistently (with at least a 2 to 5% +/- FPS) then i would have stopped there. Only ever use .2g BBs as your test BBs, i have a bottle of ASG Blaster .2g BBs just for testing AEGs and normally use G&G .25g BBs for skirmishing but never use it for testing. The reason i say stick to .2g BBs for testing is that this is the benchmark BB weight and most sites will use .2g BBs when chronoing guns using their own loaded mags to prevent cheating the chrono (my site does anyway). With a heavier weight BB expect the FPS to drop, looking at your numbers it appears that you have a consistent Joule Power (dont look at FPS too much). I will refer you to the following link to a chart showing that heavier BBs = less FPS. http://www.airsoftmaster.com/fps-chart-for-airsoft-guns/ Furthermore you state on .2g BBs that you got 350FPS the first time and 387FPS the second time and that on .25g BBs you got 318FPS the first time and 350FPS the second time If we look at this closely you will realise that 350FPS on .2g BBs = 1.13 Joules 318FPS on .25g BBs = 1.17Joules and 387FPS on .2g BBs = 1.38 Joules 350FPS on .25g BBs = 1.42 Joules The difference between the two BB weights and your FPS from the above is 0 change and an increase of 0.04 joules when going from .2g to .25g BBs, a job well done i would say. HOWEVER depending where you play, when you approach to Chrono your gun they will likely load their own mag in to the gun, loaded with .2g BBs, this will show you gun firing HOT at 387FPS which won't pass, to cheat it slightly increase the hop a little as this gun is VERY hop sensitive. Lastly stick to 7.4v LiPos, anything higher will rip the gears to shreds as they are WE Gears (AKA SHIT!), i know as i have shredded WE SCAR Gears on an 11.1 LiPo but got an amazing 28RPS before it broke. If you really want that higher ROF then i would refer you to a different gear ratio set or dual sector gears (though expect a lower FPS with dual sector gears).