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the Core version (C-05) was one of my choices for my other gun (tournament wanker gun)

Then you may want to check this thread in which I go through the process of building a nice snappy (sort of) budget AEG

This is why I'm buying an AS-03 next year, universal backup that doesn't require anything but BBs

Wouldn't go with a flat hop (or R-Hop) either, since both will turn out much more expensive than a Maple Leaf rubber and tensioner for very similar results. A chrono is mandatory when working on guns, you don't want to take the walk of shame because you turned up with a crisp sounding and beautifully working gun that fires way too hot

ML velocity ratings are useless. Plenty of people who buy 75/80° rubbers for their snipers because of these charts and end up replacing them with 50s and 60s. The softer the rubber, the less pressure required to achieve X amounts of backspin. Obviously it'll wear out faster, but we're talking hundreds of thousands of rounds (fuck me my old flat hopped prommy purple is 5 years old, has had tons of bbs and is still in great shape with barely any visible damage). With that being said, I run a mix of Maple Leaf 50s and 60s because 1J limit and it can get pretty cold on our field (usually in winter we hover around 0° c). Patch design is up to you, so far I've only tried MR-Hops but I also have a couple macarons and super macarons to try

Idk if Iliad is a thing over there, but I recently switched to them, €10 a month gives me free calls, free sms and 100 GB of data

Those drills are at least 30 years old, my dad bought 5 at the time, 4 are still perfect, one is for spare parts just a little bit of basic maintenance every now and then. I also have a battery powered drill but it's not as powerful so it doesn't get used much and yes, corded > battery all day.

Yup, don't think I'll need it though, I already have some pretty powerful corded drills. But after all it's just €20, might buy it in the near future.

It's my first dremel so https://www.dremeleurope.com/it/it/dremel®4000-686-ocs-p/ Sorry for pasta language but it's this one

Heh the 3000 was on offer for €50 at the local store and I was tempted. But then found the 4000 4/56 kit for €100 posted and couldn't say no

Might have just bought a dremel 4000... Need to skeletonize all the things!!

Yes if the chrono test is made in Joules using game weight. If your site chronoes only on 0.2s (like we do here in Italy, we check Joules but on 0.2s and then wonder why all the HPA guys reach out to 75 metres ) then it can be cheated really easily.

Nah, they only understand their own personal physic laws because they are right and you are wrong

Two sided argument really. I could say throw money at it and make it good, on the other hand I know how frustrating it is to have your ONLY gun act up in the field and having to take the walk of shame when everyone else is having fun.. What I would suggest is to buy a new gun AND some really basic upgrades for your current cyma Namely a hop rubber that is capable of lifting 0.3s, €15/20 tops if you look at the good ones like Maple Leaf or Prometheus. So you get a new gat to play with and you get to keep one as spare/loaner, win win really

I'm safe for now, nobody asks questions, they just think I'm some kind of wizard and they all stick to 0.2s because "there's more in the bag". The italian airsoft scene is quite ignorant, there are "personalities" out there who keep telling people that a 0.2g bb will have more range than a 0.3g because it's faster and therefore less influenced by external factors like wind and gravity, which makes me really happy as I get to keep my range advantage They have recently discovered R-Hops though, thanks to the scam that Psionic is, so they're very slowly catching up. Thankfully the "system" is super expensive at €130 for a shitty patch, an overpriced barrel and a useless tensioner, as of now there is only ONE person in the club that runs it (albeit on 0.2s lol). I say shitty because I've seen it, I've seen the tensioner and tested the performance against my €11 maple leaf rubbers. 10x the expense, 0x noticeable difference. The main issue in this shit country is sourcing good heavy BBs, I've stocked a few Specna Edge (BLS) bags of 0.28 and 0.30 gram bbs, next year I'll see if I can buy in bulk (say one/two cartons of 0.28s, a few bags of 0.3s and some 0.4s) from abroad.

Yup that's the main argument against me when I'm plinking at them with my pistols or bolty (all loaded with 0.3s and Maple Leaf hop rubbers)

Yeah, we do have a couple of places on our field that we never use and are suitable for a shooting range. 70/80m long with not many trees in the way and a relatively flat surface. But yeah, the point is to show people that they aren't sending real freedom seeds down range and that they are definitely not hitting that dude at 70 metres on 0.2s

Not having a safezone here, I always see this kind of scenes, people plugging batteries in and letting off bursts without checking for others. Yep, I definitely need to talk about this with my club's president.

That is not a bad idea! Having a permanent firing range on the field, so that people can a) set the hop correctly and b) understand they gun's range and hopefully stop bitching about people supposedly not calling hits

This is why I am obsessed with hop up rubbers. Don't give a shit if my gun does 4000 rounds per second, if it can't get bbs down range with reasonable consistency it's a shit gun. I have noticed that many people (at least in my club) have no clue on how airsoft physics work, I've had to set the hop for a bunch of people already. Quite depressing as these guys are the ones who usually moan a lot about hit taking. Obviously shots deflected by vegetation (usually the only hanging leaf/sticking branch in the whole field) are frustrating, especially as a sniper because it means racking the bolt and/or drawing a sidearm, which causes movement and the chance to give your position away. I do that often, especially when the guy is really close. He might have not hit me on the first burst, but the second will 100% hit me, so I just call it and walk away

Yup that is your problem In my quest for silencing the striker, everyone always suggested "go HPA" which is a dumb advice honestly. I mean, if I were to go HPA I'd just get a MTW and call it a day. /OT I guess you already tried to add some weight to the SCW piston to slow it down (compensating for the creep with a softer spring) The only experience I have with SAP pistons, unfortunately, is just forum/facebook posts about how shit it is for the striker's standard cylinder

What's wrong with the SCW one?

The issue I have has nothing to do with bb weight or rubber hardness. It's about the piston being too light and the system not giving enough pressure to push the bb past the hop. The piston itself is 15 grams, yes, F I F T E E N fucking grams, no wonder it can't push shit wrapped about 20 grams of solder around it and taped, now it is 35g and change, which upped the power by 0.2something J, clocks in at 0.85J now. Can't test the hop/range as it's too dark to see anything, but hopefully the system will now have enough pressure to let me plink at the neighbor's roof. I have some 0.32s, will give them a go tomorrow (also have some 0.4s but they are dark grey which makes it hard to track them)

Smol apdeit. The new rubber seems to lift them 0.3s just fine. Now though the power has dropped from 0.79/0.8J to barely 0.6J and really poor range @barely 40 metres, methinks it's because of the sorbothane pad in conjunction with the aforementioned lightweight piston + weak spring. SCW piston has been posted, it says delivery within 5 days but knowing Poste Italiane it'll probably be 5 weeks. Since I'm going to the hardware store I'll also pick up an extra roll of solder, later I'll try to add weight to this plastic piston and see what happens