Rogerborg

Put white BBs in a pink bottle? I mean for all that you'll actually see of them while playing.

Tee hee. Just seen this on Twatter. It's both hilarious and appalling how many of the replies are apparently sincere "Rrrraragh MUH Secund Amundmant rites! Molton Labia!!!!!!" Even after having the obvious pointed out, it's "MUH PIONT STILL STANS!!!!"

Given that I keep losing those annoying motor disks that stock grips tend to rely on to interface between the adjustment screw and the motor, I've just taken to cutting octagonal(ish) replacements out of whatever pieces of stiff plastic I happen to have to hand. Section of fairly wide cable tie work well enough, and you could glue and stack them as high as you need. Also, wooden dowel remains a thing. I'm actually eyeing up a broken arrow shaft as I type this... I reckon the best thing you can do with a Specna Edge grip is to birl it into the bits box and fit just about anything else. The $9.99 aftermarket one I got from AliExpress has a lovely big adjustment screw that doesn't need any silly disk on the end of it. It does come with a rubber o-ring, but that's not actually necessary. If you needed to, you could drop a cylindrical dowel into the adjustment screw hole and it should be pretty stable.

Unless the grip is substantially thicker at the top, could you retain the existing motor shaft length, but shove it further up into the grip by packing underneath it? It seems like this might be more secure than introducing shoogliness (my word for the day) by putting in a longer shafted motor that may have more of its length inside the grip than its stock spring is intended to tension. Top quality enginenerding diagram, illustrating how you might be able to bodge it for the cost of a bit of dowel. You could test the theory by taking the end off the grip and shoving the existing motor right in by hand (well, by thumb) to see if it'll engage (in Minecraft, obviously, never do this to a real high quality airsoft replica, you'll 100% shred your gears and open a rift in the space time continuum). If so, you'll just / "just" need to get it pushed that far in by packing under it.

I've just been admonished with XT30, it's still too tender to talk about.

Well, that's no fun, what a selfish git.

Do as I say, not as I did, but if (e.g.) CYMA went to XT60 overnight, would anyone find a reason to grumble or switch to anything else? Mini-Tamiya is actually OK. I mean internally it's two banana connectors, same as (but smaller than) XT60. It's just the plastic round it that's too shoogly for my tastes.

With the caveat that this is just my own sub-cult beliefs, and our RC chums know much more: I buy whatever brand of lipo battery is the cheapest, as I'm now fairly convinced that anything sold for airsoft tends to be junk cells anyway, and I'm actually an advocate of buying twice rather than buying "quality". Charger, I'd only go SkyRC and the groupthink suggests the S65 (I have the much older B6 which works, but the S65 is the modern equivalent). I've rewired to Deans because it's clearly a better connectors than mini-Tamiya. However, if I were doing it all over again, I'd probably go straight to XT60, on the understanding that then I'd have to keep re-wiring to that since RC form factor batteries with XT60 tend not to fit in airsoft toys. Deans is easy enough to solder onto, just be super-strict about only cutting then re-soldering one battery wire at a time. I am not dead yet, and I treat my lipos with disdain bordering on contempt. I can usually just about get a full day out of a single 1200-1400mAh cell, but I'm not trigger happy. However, I generally switch at lunch, and when I've forgotten, I've occasionally run out at the end of the day. I'd stick with 7.4v as I get brutal overspin and double-shots on all my M100 / ~1.1J AEGs with 11.1V. I only run 11.1V in one gun with an anti-brake / pre-cock mosfet, and in my M140-ish 1.8J DMR. I'd always go with the biggest, highest capacity and C rated cell that I can fit. Never make the battery the limiting factor. The exception to the quality, durability and capacity cheapskate arguments above might be lithium-ion batteries, e.g. Titan Power, rather than lithium-polymer. I haven't dabbled in them, they cost more than I'd prefer to spend, but they claim higher capacity, and we've seen owners say they've got multiple days out of them after forgetting to recharge.

Heheh, he's just dropped it to a bargain £170. I've updated the question. 👍 Apparently it "works perfectly excluding the safety". Like, my car is perfect, except don't park it on a hill, because the handbrake doesn't work.

And still asking £250 for a defective example of a toy that's £200 new, in stock at Patrol Base. I wonder if the seller calls hits to his solid brass neck.

Ahoy and welcome. I have a CM.123 myself, and you can just about use it CQB. The lack of any rails means no integral torch option, I don't know how dark Bunker 51 is. They're very low powered at about 0.37J, but the big issue is the woeful semi-auto response using the provided nimh battery. You can get an aftermarket lipo battery that's a direct replacement, or you can rewire it yourself - even a tiny 7.4V 300mAh lipo gave me much better trigger response. Consistency is actually OK. Extra magazines run surprisingly expensive, although the aftermarket "100" round (more like 50 or 60) extended plastic mags are pretty decent. You'll be outshot by just about everything out there, and might not have a great time. Even the very cheapest CYMA M4s or AKs will vastly outperform it. So you could rent a site AEG and use the CM.123 as a backup, or you could just turn up with the pistol and see how you get on. You might find that other players will take pity on you and lend you a carbine - I usually bring one or two spares.

It's like some beautiful meme come true! Will this be the first airsoft gun that's more reliable and accurate than the real-plastic original?

Nicely covered above. It's much more intense, hurts more, and you will be shot up a treat from all sorts of unexpected angles until you learn the site. In indoors semi-auto very-CQB, I get through less ammo, but then I play at sites that frown on "pre-firing", and crack down on trigger-spam (well, in the airsoft sense of shouting about it). Because of the extra stimulus, folk can get more worked up, and you'll be in close contact with plenty of Major Move-Ups!, always yelling in your earballs, always from behind you - so maybe you don't want to amplify voices. On the other hand, it's a right laugh with the right people, as long as folk are willing to take trade-offs cheerfully. I've tried to inculcate myself to turn the reflexive "Ouch you foppish cad!" into "Oh, jolly good shot, my fine fellow!" (or similar words). Project positivity. Being able to hug cover and corners does give you more options, so I go short barrelled. Pistols, SMGs and short barrelled carbines all work fine. You can work with longer though, it's not critical.

Bullshit called, that can't be a PTW - your face isn't blurred.

https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/17-guns-wanted/ If you can't post in the classifieds yet, you'll need to interact with the forum a bit first to get past the spambot check.

I aspire to have both a shed, and a large pile of toy guns. I'm still strictly middling.

Ah, last I checked, they were on the "ban their face off" list along with MARS, not because one was used in anger, but because one was stolen, and then recovered. I didn't spot that The Saj gave them a respite, to the performative horror of the usual suspects. Cheerfully corrected - I haven't looked into this in detail since the 1990s when "proper" shotgun users were sniffy that historic reenactors were getting SGCs for buying black powder muskets and small cannons, and wanted a separate category for us. It's always been rats in a sack.

I'd send it to Luke at Negative and ask him to send me a skirmishable 1.1J AEG Uzi, by any means necessary.

And .50 BMG, because of all those bank heists that got done with Barretts. Yes, I should have qualified to what's the chances of any change being in our favour? Like most "communities", the gun-shaped-object one is more what you'd call a set of squabbling tribes only looking out for their own self interests. To wit: paintballers trying to parasite off of our defence, and my desire to throw them an anchor rather than a lifeline if it keeps my silly hobby going for a bit longer. I don't think there is a solution to that, other than to cry "why oh why can't we all just get along", with the same effects as that plea has had in every other brother-war since Abel and Cain.

I don't think I've ever seen one being used, although I've seen one being sworn at in the safe zone, which I understand is their default condition. Thus the "servicing" obsession. The seller's posting history here suggest that he's not a throbber, and it doesn't look like a deceptive advert. Of course, you'd have to be loopy to pay that for one RIF that might shred its internals at chrono. Far better to do what most of us here do: spend that much on ten RIFs, hang eight of them on the wall, bring two, and have them both crap out on the day. Alternatively, send Luke at Negative £3K in cash and a bottle of wine, and await the results.

Not one that's been mentioned here, but it is an equally ludicrous and arbitrary situation. Both that a FAC is harder to get and more explicit but doesn't give you shotgun privileges, or that shotgun certs are effectively "shall issue" and then let you build an unlimited armoury of unrecorded smoothbores, up to 2" cannons. I will never get tired of asking 2A fetishists complaining about the UK's "disarmed populace" and claiming that they'd arm themselves if they could, how their shotgun cert application is going. I'd say that current firearms legislation has the pragmatic effect of working, except that it doesn't, given that mental cases are still going on shooting sprees. The whole thing really needs a comprehensive revocation and reform to simplify it and make it consistent, but what are the chances of that happening?

PatrolBase list the HC05 as the DSG version which is auto only.

"20 Position Fine Tunning", apparently. https://www.justbbguns.co.uk/bulldog-falcon-w-qd-airsoft-gun/ Spec seems to match this SRC, "meh" all day long.

I can see very little point to it at my local sites. It seems to be more about having a few meekish, warmish bodies in day-glo vests standing around taking pictures for InstaFace, while the mandatory Angry Man yells "No full auto in buildings" over and over again without taking any corrective action. Fortunately, the players themselves are pretty decent, so it's rarely an issue. A notable exception is (or was) the Depot where the marshalling was generally active and effective. Players (self included on occasion) were taken aside and had things explained, rather than tiresome tirades of ineffectual generalised yelling. Dickish behaviour got you punted off site, and a marshal got sacked off for cheating chrono. I even saw the site owner being spot-check chronoed in game by his own lead marshal - the friendly-but-firm bouncer that I now view as the ideal template. I have no idea what the consequences would have been, but as an illustration that the rules apply to everyone, no favouritism or exceptions, it was hard to beat.