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Apologies, I completely missed that bit lol Can't you just get a Primary adapter for glock to mp5 mags and run your AAP?

ARP556?? Retains everything you like about the ARP9 but swaps out to the 5.56 platform. It is more or less the same gun. G&G hopups are meh but can be swapped for a ZCI rotary to sort them cheaply. FWIW I recently had a small surplus and was really interested in the ARP series, ended up with a CM16 SRS due to it being similar if not lighter than ARP556 and it costs a lot less. Yeha it has a 7" front end opposed to 5" but if I'm playing in areas that tight I'm on the pistol anyway.

My SRS has hit it's "final" version. This weekend was insane!! As the day wore on the new R-Hop patch bedded it's way in progressively needing less and less pressure to be applied. By the end of the day it was almost at the point where I didn't need to watch the BB fly, if the crosshair was on it, it was gone! SRS A1 GSPEC FAST hop, PDI 370x6.05 inner barrel, DTSS suppressor with internal barrel support (also SBA), Faceless 60deg R-Hop patch, SBA 70deg bucking modified for rhop, Facelss FOW nub, SBA v1.VMP with 1 aluminium collar, Faceless mousefart piston head, Rapax 2J spring with 2 coils removed, Faceless FPS booster ring. 318fps (+/- 1) on a 0.48g (about 2.24/2.26J) with the hop set.

Arrived an hour or so ago. CM16 SRS in Battleship Grey. This is my new "project" gun. Granted it's currently 3rd in line but couldn't resist at the price.

Happy end to my story. SRS arrived this morning. 2 weeks after ordering. I hadn't heard from Extreme, called them up to let them know and put this whole saga to bed. Looking forward to playing with my shiny new toy.

I did try to speak with the courier via the contact page (all phone numbers were automated) as I just wanted to get my parcel. They wouldn't speak to me as the consignment was booked through a 3rd party and referred me to them. I called Extreme up and spoke to Chris who certainly sounded a lot more concerned and said he'd chase it up. An hour later I had a call, parcel is indeed in the Coventry depot and courier are working to get it on track again and will update me tomorrow. Firstly I hope I have it for the weekend. Secondly, I'm a huge believer in a judge of company not being when things are right but how stuff is handled when it goes wrong, up until the phone call today I was starting to think about chargebacks from credit cards. I'm not unreasonable and I prefer to be right with people but I am getting to the point now of just wanting item or refund. Fingers crossed I can put a positive end to this shenanigan.

No and I don't but I can blame them for giving 0 Fs and not trying to remedy the situation.

£420 shipped for something I ordered for £169 last week (and mine's new in single tone battleship grey) ?

Mixed experience for me. Ordered a shotgun last month. Arrived no problems. Ordered another item this month. Took a few days to dispatch. Has been in PF depot for about 3 days now with no attempt to deliver it. Emailed yesterday with no response. Called today and told it's not their problem now as it's with Parcelforce and I need to contact them. Doesn't sound quite right. Tried phoning PF anyway as I want my parcel, all automated and nothing along lines of "for lost or delayed" so have gone down the contact form route. Have called them again and said as much and they said they'd try and chase it up from their side. I am awaiting repsonses from both currently.

£45 plus postage new now. Last one I piscked up was about £25 delivered second hand.

I managed to find an image of the intial messages exchanged over the whole Milspec thing, I can sympathise to Milspec, times are going to be rough and retail has suffered so clearly wants to get as many sales as possible so the weight of a business will be heavy but if answering benign questions late at night isn't what you want to do then simply don't read the messages or turn off the notifications. Again a plague of this always on world is that people expect immediate answers although the guy who asked did not come across like that, likely Milspec had a bad day and took it out on the wrong prospective customer, a really bad choice/lash out which will have hurt him. I will footnote though that Milspec does need to learn from this, either clean up the responses or don't respond until the next day. I wouldn't wish hardship on anyone but when you are selling luxury items, at least be thankful people choose you as that cah could easily go on so many other things.

@Asomodai Incredible what people will buy to put their mind at ease. Takes less than a minute to take it back down and re-adjust it. It would certainly solve your issues though (or highlight the bad part). At £30 for the alignment tool though it's FAST money so yeah you'd just buy another and keep the first for spares eh?

@Asomodai I've not yet seen one, prioer to that the Stalker Tigra was very intrusive, so much it jammed me on setting 4. https://www.skirmshop.co.uk/srs-tigra-nub.html I use a PDI barrel though so only have a very small hop window comapred to most, a prowler would likely be a better fit for the stock or other barrels. Whats the finish like on the chub? Seen a few reviews that weren't too favourable of it.

Rainbow8 should be very high on your list. In general stay away from Guarder stuff, the fit is just awful. Anything Airsoft Masterpiece, Edge, GunSmith Bros (all same OEM) will be fantastic, CowCow, AIP and DP is also really good. It's a very deep rabbit hole but incredibly fun. For the HPA you can either tap your mags (yuk) or look at a Primary Airsoft adapter which is probably the best avenue to go down.

@Asomodai I always get this problem when I try to use my Faceless Rhop and FOW. I spend far too long trying to realign the 2 parts of the FAST unit onto the barrel with 1 degree turns to try and get it perfect. Funnily enough when you throw a FAST hop with SBA bucking and SBA nub together they tend to sit perfectly. I think you'll find it's just the inner part of the FAST not correctly aligned to the outer (note perfect alignment of the 2 parts doen't correlate to nub being perfect, align on the nub). Sort that and you'll be good to go or just throw in a 60 and hop 0.48's with the SBA nub like we all said ?

Stainless coated brass barrel sold on a step no other AEG barrel has ever needed? Nah. Maybe if you were thinking of a Lambda, PDI, Laylax or EdGi then yes but not needed, the stock barrel is pretty decent to get going with.

SRS A2 covert .338 suppressor Rapax 2J Silverback FAST hop unit Clean your barrel. ^^^ Would do the job perfectly well. The "new" red piston has a silent head on it so you don't necessarily NEED an airbrake anymore and the variable weight isn't massively needed unless you want to fine tune to the 0.1 of a joule. FAST hop is easier, lifts better and gives you a new SBA 60 bucking with flat nub.

Disappointingly you can keep the .308 break and use it in the .338 suppressor. The .308 suppressor has slightly shorter internal thread than the .338 so if you had a .338 break and tried to fit a .308 suppressor it just wouldn't screw all the way on. Nothing else different between them (other than .338 suppressor being 25mm longer and having 3 maybe 4 more foam doughnuts in it).

Nope. Longer barrel means easier to get higher FPS. Thats it.

Interestingly a friend is also having similar issues only he is needing 6 to lift a .43. Advice I gave him was to chuck a couple hundred through it to try and wear the bucking in a bit. Could always drop to a 50shore or change the nub out, something like a tigra(sp?) applies slightly more down the length of the patch.

Skirmshop UK have just restocked the 2J springs. (as a sidenote). That does sound wrong. My FAST with SBA nub and rubber is only about 4 to hop 0.48's, sayin that though I don't like any tail end "lift" on my BB's, I prefer flat then drop so maybe I'm shooting less distance than you. I tend not to try for 100M as it's a rarity I can find a game area to make them and even then I find 500FPS is probably a touch low for that distance.