Rogerborg

I can barely keep one wife happy, let alone six! 😮

Come on, m8, play the game, m8, make me an offer, m8, you know how it's played, m8.

Sure. We have a Classifieds section at https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/ - you might need to make a few more posts before getting access to it (or you might not). Where you list it within there is another question. It's got a bit of everything. Folk tend to list under the highest value component, e.g. the M4 (or the Hi-Capa), but that flags up the issue, that you're looking for someone who wants all of it, and those can be tricky to find. It's more effort, but if you want to get something back, I'd suggest splitting it into: M4 + mags + sight + battery + charger in https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/4-electric-rifles/ Hi-Capa + mags + holster in https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/7-gas-pistols/ Everything else in https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/15-gear/ I get that you'd rather have it all gone at once, but if you list it as all-or-nothing, you're likely to get offers for what people actually want, with everything else considered to be a free gift.

They've long since priced themselves out of the budget end of the market, and I'm not sure why I'd want to look at them in the £200-300 range when EDGE 2.0s and Double Eagle M9XX exist.

Ahoy and welcome back. 1. If you've been out for 7 years, I would have to wonder how likely it is that all 7 of you will stick with it the 2nd time round. So I'd agree with the suggestion to rent, at least for a game or two, to see if this is a renewal of your vows, or a quick booty call. Renting can look expensive, but when you consider that you'd be buying the BBs anyway, it's only actually £10-£15 for renting the gun, plus support for it, for the day. That's cheap compared to trying to sell on any RIF, or worse, an IF. 2. If you do want to buy, I agree with the list above. The cheapest M5xx M4 CYMAs have very cheap plastic bodies (although robust internals), anything above that from those brands will be fine. Baofengs UV-5Rs are decent but contain more functionality than needed. They can be programmed by hand, although it's somewhat time consuming. A £7 programming cable (eBay can provide) makes it easier, and allows downloading the same frequencies to multiple handsets. If you want to skip all that, they do a simpler range that's locked to the PMR frequencies. 3. Dunno, DPM is best P.

Could be midcap syndrome, just too much pressure on the nozzle. Do you get the same behaviour with a hi-cap, or a nearly empty midcap? I've not tried it, but I'm intrigued by the idea of using a tapered punch to (very!) gently flare the cylinder head so that the nozzle sits more securely on it without weeble-wobbling. I mean, you might need a delayer, but I prefer to start at the front and work backwards.

Typical airsoft player: Semi-conductor-seriously though: supercapacitors + NiMH? Seems a bit like...

You've kept that quiet. And yes, to re-iterate, the FLEX, CORE, and EDGE Specnas are all much of a muchness. I won't even list the detailed differences as they actually alter depending on the phase of the moon. EDGE 2.0 with the Gate Aster, or Double Eagle M9XX with their Falcon fire control system, is where you'll get features like burst mode, pre-cock and active brake (which can help if you go for a battery spicier than a 7.4V) And that's not to say that you can't add a well featured mosfet to a more basic gun later. The best gun is the one that puts a smile on your face, and I have as much or more fun playing with "worse" guns.

Specna FLEX will be fine, and those Fire Support ones are a genuine bargain. The performance will be on par with a rental G36. They both have decent rotary hops, everything else is functional, but could be better. To get anything noticeably better I reckon you'd have to go to a gun with a fire control system like a Double Eagle M9XX series, or a Specna Arms EDGE 2.0, but you'll pay significantly more. You'll always want to be fiddling around, but it won't necessarily produce hugely better results. The FLEX will take all of the common parts like motors, hop rubbers, barrels, gears and such if you want to go that route. Or, with some more experience, you might end up relegating them to backup guns and go another route like AK, MP5, a G-gun, or whatever tickles your fancy. You'll rarely regret having a light, reliable, basic and unmeddled M4 in the bag or boot.

Hello, goodbye.

Welcome back. You won't know until you've shot it a bit, but I wouldn't be paying a generic "tech" to do generic tasks. Some specific individuals are good at some specific tasks, but you'll be paying £40+ an hour, so you'll to want to be sure that it's needed. Lithium batteries tend to survive well with some charge in them, so I wouldn't fret about them either, I'd just charge them in an Explosion Containment Pie Dish the first time and keep an eye (and a hand) on them. If you're in any doubts about getting through the day, a new battery wouldn't be a crazy expense. I'd bin any bio BBs that you have, magdump the .25g, and agree with going up to 0.28g if your hop can lift them. The spring might have weakened, it depends how compressed it was. There's only one way to find out. Airseal is what would concern me, and only to the extent of pulling the thing apart and putting a small squirt of silicone spray (or oil) into the nozzle and letting it soak into the piston o-rings for a while, then doing some bursts of auto fire until it's blowing entirely clear before re-assembling. Check the hop rubber for stiffening or cracking while you've got it apart. Maple Leaf rubbers (and Omega nubs, or the SHS equivalent) perform pretty well in most guns. https://ak2m4.co.uk would be our go-to recommendation for any parts that you need.

I've taken pity on the chap and told him what he should actually be asking. I await the "I noew wut its wurth all day long m8".

From experience, the AA R17 mock-Glock is decent for the (very low) money. From observations, the R608 has (or had) one fragile part that doesn't stop it working. There's no airsoft brand that I've used that I would give an unqualified recommendation for, as... That's a realistic view. If I wanted to minimise surprises, I'd spring the little extra for a TM pistol, simple as. I've tried a TM G17 and the trigger is much crisper than my AA. But... they both sling BBs downrange. It's airsoft, everything is a daft waste of money.

Only if fired like this.

I'm fine with Army Armament as a brand, but I'd approach the R608 with a little caution. I've seen one with a snapped safety switch, and the owner claimed he'd heard it was a common issue (which you're now hearing about 3rd or 4th hand). It didn't effect the functionality of the gun though.

Truly one of the posts ever made.

Eh. If you can predict where someone will be in 1.25 seconds, then you can predict it for 1.3 seconds, at least in enough cases that it won't measurable alter your winr8. That's very different to playing Whack-a-Molle at 15 feet indoors. Running these two together for chuckles. Join usssss, accept the scope and bipod as your personal airsoft saviour.

Heard on site: "Stop climbing that tree, you've been told." "It's OK, I'm a tree surgeon, I do this all week." "Well, it's Sunday, so down you come." Shouldn't have needed multiple warnings, of course.

Do your local sites still look energies up on a chart, or do they set the chrono to the BB weight and look at the Joules figure?

I'd say the exact opposite, for the very simple reason that if you're respecting your DMR MED then the extra few milliseconds are unlikely to matter, but if you're up close and personal, it can do. I love the handiness of my MP5K in CQB, but the trigger travel and semi-auto response left a lot to be desired.

I've seen a few recorded instances of a lens detaching from the frame, but not a failure of the polycarb itself. Anything close to 2mm should shrug off airsoft energies, I'd be interested in hearing the circumstances of an exception. Oh, agreed, I'd never play in shooting glasses, even with a retention strap. Full seal, all the way, find a way to deal with the fogging.

Yup, that's all them has posted. They're either top notch AI, or very peculiar human. Didn't even say hello. 😢

Excellent news. Just to be clear, what matters is the temperature of the magazines (and what you're filling them from), not the gun itself. I keep mine in my pocketses in cold weather.