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if you own a wider/slightly shorter inner barrel you could temporarily swap it until the energy stabilizes.

IPSC game today. Cracked out the Glock for its first outing (had it since 2021 or so) and it broke almost immediately, hammer is not resetting properly anymore and I need to take it apart. AAP on hpa is cracked, EPM-1S mags feed great in the monk adapter, definitely put a grin on my face. Gucci DSG M4 needs shimming revisited, sounds a touch scratchy but nothing major. I thought I could get away with iron sights but I was wrong, still need a red dot on it. As for the game, it was a IPSC style training day with a small course built in the woods, targets are A4 sized steel plates put at various distances and the vegetation allowed for tricky shots and weird firing stances. I recommend it to everyone, especially those who always complain about hit calling at range, you'll be surprised by how many people just can't shoot for shit, even with highly tuned guns.

Unfortunately without having the gearbox at hand it's impossible. Every gun wants its own setup. Adolf's guide is pretty good, you can also watch a couple of videos from YouTube (Paragon Armory one being particularly detailed). Being just 5 shims you luckily only have a "reduced" amount of possible combinations. Follow the guides and find the combination with the least drag between gears while still allowing free spin.

New handguard from MAC Airsoft. Not finished because we're waiting for a pic rail to go on top and the end caps for a small red suppressor. Next will be a set of fibre optic iron sights and a way to attach a two points sling, but I may already know how.

I have 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5 mm shims, less wasted thinner ones to achieve the desired result. On a side note, 0.5mm doesn't always equal 0.2+0.2+0.1 or 0.3+0.2 or 5x0.1. Most likely the stack will be quite a bit thicker than a single 0.5 due to tolerances so there is that too to consider when shimming.

Remember that the mk23 is the size of a small SMG, especially with the suppressor on. This makes it not ideal for mounting on a belt, drop leg holsters are a no go because you'll be burying the front end into the ground every time you take a knee unless you are very tall. So you're left with chest/armpit holsters and there aren't many options available that don't involve modification. Regarding the pistol, TM is the way to go, all you need to add is a tdc cover, tensioner and hop rubber of choice, that's it. Stock gun can somehow lift up to 0.28s but can't go heavier, which is where the pistol truly shines as a pocket sniper rifle. A TDC will get 0.48s going for very silly ranges and being a NBB, once you get past the horrible trigger, means you'll be consistently hitting people at ranges above what a 1.13J AEG can reach. Magazine wise, I found TM mags to be the overall best, but I've been told the new gen 3 Nov mags are also very good, so next time I'm shopping for gbb parts I may get a few of those and transfer the TM internals (routers, feed lips, follower and springs) into them.

Not really. I can easily reach the first one on the right without too much trouble and it's generally the first magazine used unless I'm in the middle of a firefight, where I draw the two on the left first. 2nd mag on the right is definitely harder to reach but again, if I have time I don't mind faffing around a little bit to get it. Having all 4 mags on the left would be more convenient for reloads, but it would totally throw off the weight distribution, especially when I don't need to have a lot of stuff on me. This way I can keep things balanced and, most importantly, at hand. Except for the GPS, but that thing never comes out of its pouch when shooty shoot is expected and when I need to use it, it's clipped to the right suspender. For the record, in those flat utility pouches I have a multitool + screwdriver and bits on the right, notepad + map reading stuff (ruler, protractor, map) on the left, plus spare room for my vape + liquid and smaller bits and bobs, while food goes in the slightly larger pouch at the back. Mirror to the GPS pouch is a flapped double mag pouch for my radio and the wiring to my earpiece is threaded and taped to the left suspender, again I don't need to switch channels during a firefight. (Also didn't realise how grey my hair became 🥺😭)

I run a belt setup for longer games, found it doesn't restrict my breathing like a chest rig does when climbing steep hills or hiking many kilometres. Plus it's velcro lined so it locks onto my trousers preventing any shifting. It's based on the Templars Gear PT-4, pouches are a mix of Templars Gear, Helikon and Baribal. Here's a picture of me wearing the thing along with a 15l backpack at October's National Finals, 4 rifle mags, two small utility pouches and a larger one at the back, GPS pouch and a dump. I'm now considering building a second "speedsoft style" belt, much lighter with just 4x rifle mags and a dump pouch, will probably use a HSGI belt instead of a PT-4.

You could have simply tagged me 😂😂 no need for that wall of text 😅

No wishlist, but it looks like I'm getting more carbon fibre goodies for my rifles.

Yeah some things shrink in the cold, but I don't think you should stick them in airsoft guns, it's not safe..

BB retention is overrated, so much so that the actual good M4 hop units (Silent Industries, Begadi and such) don't use them. To the OP: No mention of the hop unit is being made, which obviously doesn't help. Could be the retention mechanism (paddle/latch or the tiny spring on the ME Sport units, o-ring like the old Madbull rotary unit), could be a slight deformation or indent on the feed tube that is not enough to prevent feeding but is enough to retain 2/3 bbs. Gib pictures or a better description so we can help you

Italian is a stretch they are a distributor but on top of that they get their own receivers. No different than specna/dboys/saigo. Now onto the rail, just go and pick whatever you like, but please for the love of god avoid Ares Octarms, price tag is tempting but then you'll end up with a largely off spec lump of metal.

Gunfire has a 25% off code... So I bought: 1x solink-specna helical dsg set 2x solink-specna helical 13:1 set 1x acetech-specna brighter C tracer in black for a friend 1x acetech-specna brighter C tracer in wanker colour for me. HPA should be on delivery tomorrow.

Motor + gears are here

Bit of a different day. Only 7 people on the field so we set up a very simple IPSC-style course and ran different challenges all morning. For the first time my AAPs have let me down with various issues ranging from inconsistent hop to straight up freezing, especially the carbine. The culprit is most likely green gas, it was a quite cold day at 6/7° and it struggled a lot. No Biggie, my hpa setup should be here next week anyway. Also realised that my optics are filthy and couldn't properly track bbs, so a decent cleaning session is due this afternoon. Overall a fun experiment that we're planning to turn into a regular club activity (maybe once a month or so).

1x Solink x Specna Arms 27k Dark Matter brushless motor 1x Solink x Specna Arms helical 9:1 DSG gear set. Courtesy of Gunfire and their black friday discounts.

Just ordered a HPA kit from Airtac, 0.8l alu tank + line + airtac regulator. € 180 posted, just €20 more expensive than a balystik hpr800c + tank + line setup from a semi-local shop but I get lifetime warranty on the reg which is a nice plus.

Monk Customs is having a 40% off on their angled HPA adapters for their 5 year anniversary... So I snagged a black skeletonized one for my AAPs. Fuuck I'm turning into a speedsofter...

Wet day = fun day. 9 people on the field, played in the lower part (steeper, denser vegetation, best part imo), started off meh but picked up from the 2nd game on. 1st outing for the 40 RPS brushed pdw dsg, performed okay on 0.28s but the hop up needs revised, a bit too much vertical spread. For the last two games I switched to the brushless SSG M4, this too was fine for the most part. Decently consistent at 36 RPS.

Yes, but Sudoku sounds funnier and catches people off guard Here we call it Harakiri I suppose you don't have access to a stock G&G mosfet unit to swap the ETU++ for and rule out any possible faults on that side eh? How are the various connectors? Solid? Wonky? Have you tried a different battery? (even better would be to try with a different motor as well)

By Perun mosfet I assume you have something that plugs into the G&G trigger board, ETU++ or the older ETU Upgrade Kit. Can you confirm? For how long have you owned the RIF? G&G ETU trigger boards are notoriously flimsy and their microswitches (they have three, one for the trigger, one for the cutoff lever and one for the selector plate) tend to commit sudoku pretty frequently. Another option would be a semi-loose motor connector. Worst case the motor is getting tired

it's a magazine design flaw, the wheel is way too undersized to lift that many BBs without needing constant winding. When I had the ARP-9 I had the same issue, experienced the same with MP5 mags, and now that I have a Specna X01 that uses very similar, if not identical mags, the same bollocks occur These guns shine with midcaps or drums, highcaps unfortunately are shit by design.

1x Begadi Neptun M4 hop unit, 1x Begadi MHP5 in 60° 1x Begadi SHP5 in 60° 1x Begadi M150 spring ordered on Tuesday, delivered 10 minutes ago. Hopefully these will sort my brushless DSG's power, feeding and range/consistency. This way I can also start fucking off Maxx units from my guns Also, from skirmshop: 1x Stalker Morpheus Carbon 155x6.05 (this one should've been 3mm longer to match my current chopped barrel, but I reckon it's going to be fine) 1x Stalker Morpheus Carbon 185x6.05 1x Stalker 60° R-Hop patch

Bit of an odd game today. Premise: there are two main Airsoft federations here, one is FIGT (which we're part of) the other being FIPS. My region has, or rather had, a very strong FIPS presence until very recently, now clubs are switching over to ours because it's objectively less crap. So we got invited to a big two faction game which also gave us the chance to have a talk with the various ex FIPS clubs.. Well, game wise it was a standard two faction game with a few objectives to conquer and a final phase where our side had to defend a downed pilot from the bad blue banded people. Initial phase kicked off with a very nice firefight right outside our base, that we won because of better tactics than the opponents (flanking, proper use of available cover and terrain) which led us to a very early push for the enemy HQ. This is where things went a bit sideways because I went with a mega flank with my actual team (8 people) only to discover that the opponents had somehow acquired secret squirrel technology and had force fields around them. We learned how much physical pain people can endure (in terms of how many BBS to the face they took while not calling hits). This went on for a while, until all my teammates bar me got hit and went back to regen, leaving me alone to fight off a bunch of angry defenders. The most surprising fact, though, is that everyone stopped paying attention to the loud DSG going off behind them, no idea why, but it let me get about 20 kills before I ran out of BBs, at no point I got hit, I simply picked up my spent mags and regrouped with my teammates. 2nd HQ push was almost the same, but this time I got even more kills but my approach to the situation changed, I didn't play for the objective anymore and just sat behind a tree doing stress tests of the gun. Again, ran out of BBs, helped a fellow red band to find his mate and walked back to our HQ without being hit once. Final phase of the game was a mega push from the opposition to our HQ, where a downed pilot was being held hostage. This part of the game saw me sitting behind a boulder dumping mag after mag at clueless people, some took the hit, others didn't until they walked in the "pain" zone but in general it was a cosplay of Napoleonic wars instead of coordinated attacks. Again, ended up being alone against pretty much the whole blue faction, managed to fend off the attack and the game ended as I loaded my last magazine. Blatant cheating apart, it was a decent day on a new but very interesting field not far from home (1h drive, considering that our own field is a 40m drive). Guns: the brushless DSG struggled to properly feed but I blame it on the latest batch of 0.32s being shit. The theory is confirmed by how bad my other guns are performing lately and in fact, once someone lent me a magazine filled with G&G 0.28s, it fed ALL the BBs, so I'm switching to those for a while, but apart from that I'm not 100% satisfied with the performance, I think I can squeeze a little more range and consistency out of it so I'm mostly likely going to order a few hop rubbers to try (or maybe attempt a R-Hop). 35 RPS on a 7.4v is nice though, maybe a little too much for certain situations. And I definitely need a M150 to bring it to the limit. Also brought the 7" brushless SSG but didn't use it, in all fairness I should have brought the mk23 as well because it's a "pocket" sniper rifle and would have allowed for some spicy memes. Gear wise, ran my Mayflower chest rig, FRV belt and Pentagon flatpack clone. 1L of water, 2 kilogrammes of 0.32s, A-Tacs iX top with my RG trousers. Would I do all this again? Eeh, hard to tell, the mode was somewhat okay even though some rules weren't clear and others were abused, as mentioned above hit calling degraded over time but that is to be expected because people get pretty pissed off when hit from seemingly nowhere over and over again and make stupid decisions.