Skara

'nother tournament done, this one was short and we ended up 2nd out of 12 teams, with just a handful of points separating us from both the first and third places. Not bad considering that out of 8 people, three were at their first event and two others haven't played in years. My gun stopped feeding on the last objective for no reason, BBs were being loaded into the hop unit but they couldn't be pushed out, so I suspect the piston head came loose inside the gearbox (which seems to cycle as normal, nozzle moves as intended), it's one of those cases where a pistol would have been nice to have but again, for the remaining 99.98% of situations it's just extra weight and bulk. Nonetheless it was a fun event, shame that it was a 3h drive to and 3h drive from, for a 2.5/3h event.

Smol question: Does anyone know of a magazine base plate that doesn't "ride up" as much as the stock TM plate? Asking because the TM plate is a little bit too thick on the top (where the guide rails for the magazine base are) and prevent the magazine release from engaging the mag cutout. I know the rubbery ranger plates I'm using on my AAP mags work but they're a bit shit and some of them are broken already despite me not having dropped those mags, not even once by accident.

If ALL the compression parts inside the gearbox seal (so: piston head to cylinder, cylinder to cylinder head, cylinder head to nozzle in its fully extended position) then the issue is most likely around the hop up area. Check if your nozzle to hop rubber seal is good, install the gearbox with the nozzle at its resting position (fully extended) inside the gun, then shine a light down the muzzle and check if there is any light coming through the hop unit's feed tube. If there is, then your hop rubber is worn/torn or the nozzle is too short. Replace accordingly. If your nozzle doesn't have an o-ring, replace it regardless, make sure to measure its length with a caliper and buy accordingly. DO. NOT. USE. PTFE. TAPE. TO. SEAL. COMPRESSION. PARTS.

One last update: Took a file to the 5ku barrel and slightly lowered the guide for the small round pin on the hop up chamber, now the barrel fits. All it needs now is the hop set and dot zeroed, then it can fuck off back in the drawer for the next 2 years or so.

I may, or may not, have left a soaking wet gun inside its bag for a while last winter..... Maybe..

Tokyo Marui gen.3 G17 Internals are pretty much stock except for a Maple Leaf 50° Decepticon, Maple Leaf I-Key, Maple Leaf hop wheel and TTI Adjustable Trigger Externals are a repro ALG Defense 6 Seconds mount + ALG Flared Magwell, Aim-O T1 @frontsighthere it is And a rail update on my tournament Specna C-08, with a repro DD MFR XS 9"

I run a FRV Tailoring belt, but heard their customer service has gone to shit and they're not getting their orders shipped. Shame, as the belt I have is fucking nuke proof! C2R, TacBelts UK and Deadly Customs all make great quality shooter belts too, and they're UK based! Failing that, if you want a more "standard" looking battle belt, I may recommend the HSGI Suregrip, in my opinion it's the closest thing to a shooter belt without actually being a shooter belt. The rest is, imo, either too old technology or vastly overpriced due to import fees.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a timing issue: The gun cycles so fast in semi compared to a regular brushed motor that the gearbox just can't keep up. I fixed the issue on my M4 by yeeting the delayer and shaving down maybe two millimetres off the tappet plate fin, I got lucky because the gun still feeds fine on both flash mags and midcaps. My ak wasn't so lucky, I have installed a "high speed" delayer chip with the bulge on the left side (so the bulge picks up the tappet plate earlier and it releases just a smidge past the tappet plate cam) to no avail, even after a rather daft cut of the fin (3/4mm) I still have massive power drops. Without the speshul delayer the gun feeds fine (at full power) on midcaps but doesn't feed at all on my Cyma flash mags. I might try to fix it tonight or on Thursday (day off due to national holiday).

Repro ALG Defense 6 Seconds Glock mount from aliexpress is here

Le mount has come, it's one chunky boi.

Update: Bought the trigger bar, hop wheel and outer barrel. Now the 5ku barrel won't release the inner -.- Edit: nvm I pried it open I guess no threaded barrel for me. Also it was sitting funny inside the slide (recoil guide was sticking out 3/4mm). Anyway, trigger and bar installed, seems to have fixed the issue I was having, only thing left is now the 6 seconds mount and then I'm done.

That is not possible unless you short stroke the piston but not the gears. On all my guns I removed two teeth from the sector (pick up side) and left the racks intact, no PME, no smashed front piston teeth, nothing.

Do NOT use adaptive AB, it's a shit feature. Better set it at 20% and leave it there.

Cheap LPVOs are crap, good LPVOs are stupid expensive. LPVOs are heavy and often lackluster in either 1x performance (in terms of 1x not being a true 1x) or shit tier eyebox when magnification is applied. A more cost effective way would be a micro dot stacked on top of a fixed 4x, half the weight, a quarter of the price and very comparable performance with, often, better glass quality.

Did you buy the AAP one or just a regular glock hammer? This just arrived Deadly Customs holster for the mamba upper, so I can use my pistol again

I generally do just fine with iron sights, though it depends on what situation I'm in: if I'm setting up an ambush, then yeah I do aim down my sights, if I'm the one being ambushed I mostly point and shoot, I still shoulder whatever gun I have but getting a sight picture is at the bottom of my priority list, at least for the first two/three bursts.

Cool, so TM bar it is (much cheaper as well, €8 instead of 18 lol). Do 5ku barrels need any sort of modification to fit? Sorry for the silly questions but apart from the AAP and mk23 (both have rather straightforward parts and installation) I don't have much experience with GBB compatibility.

Got this in the mail today: Not exactly a top notch repair, but so far nobody charged me for anything so I guess it's a win

This looks giga fucking cool mate!

It's BE.. If I launch ArmA without BE active I can play it just fine, but only in SP.

I've been playing ArmA 3 for ages and I absolutely love it ❤️, but nowadays my craptop can't run it anymore (BattlEye piece of shit keeps giving me BSODs). Whenever I can be arsed to buy a new PC, I might give it a go...

You mean the UV Gen IV? In that case no, I have a genuine one and it barely takes EPM clones (pouches are designed around the standard GI mags). Both the Gen V and Gen VI have different inserts for AK mags, but I don't know if there are copies of those.

I say a replica of this is your best bet. Maybe with kydex inserts to increase retention (bungees are ass)

21h event this weekend. It was supposed to be rather easy, basically no elevation and not too many kilometres to hike, turned out to be hell on earth. 35° temperature, not a single cloud and stupid high humidity levels meant I got a sunstroke and had to stop after about 6 hours and roughly 20 kilometres done. Another teammate had developed huge blisters on his feet so we slowly hiked another 3km back to the safe zone. Teammate was done and I thought I was too so I packed my bag and tried to plan for the remaining of the time (communicate with the rest of my team and see how I could help them). Night comes and the rest of the team gets back to the SZ to resupply, have dinner and head out for the night phase, at this point another teammate had some issues (horrible rash on his head and forearms, we thought it was an allergy but instead it was a chemical, more on that later) so I joined back in his place. Night phase was okay, we split in two and my group (2 people) had to recon two spots, so we headed out into the woods where we had to sneak past a well lit objective because we took a shortcut. The other group (2 people) set off for a couple of sabotage objectives. After our recon sortie we went back to the SZ, slept for 2 hours and, at 5 AM, woke up to assault the last objective, then went back to SZ, had a quick breakfast, packed and went home. Kit considerations: Kit makes or breaks your loadout, in this case I should have done an entirely different thing: Helikon TMR works well on Sunday skirmishes but lacks the comfort for longer, 8 hours + events, next time I'll use the mayflower or smersh; The backpack I used has too thin shoulder straps, so at one point it started digging in my shoulders, also it's weird shaped so despite being 20 litres, it felt like 10; The new Claw Gear pants are fucking brilliant! Very, very comfortable though I might need soft knee inserts; 3 litres of water were *barely* enough before I got sick and had to go back, I need at least one extra litre, at least for summer; Need to bring a sleeping bag and pad with me, leave them in the car and use them to rest, I don't mind sleeping on the ground in summer but I woke up drenched in condensation from my poncho. Overall not a great experience, if the event was done in winter/early spring I would have enjoyed it way, way more. Also, while I was at the SZ, I saw at least three ambulances going in and out, turns out some people had it much, much worse than I did. Picture before we started