Skara

judging by the last time you spoke about the italian postal system it'll take about 14 hours to get 199.5km and 2 weeks to make it the rest of the way.

 

tbf i get a similar issue with one particular shop in ireland, for some reason stuff takes exactly a month to arrive and turns up smelling of fish.

 

i don't want to say the irish postal system involves chucking the package on the first lorry that looks like it's going vaguely the right direction, but i'm gonna insinuate the hell out of it.

It's a private courier who's won a contract with the postal service (they're just as bad, no wonder they won lmao).

 

Their website is also busted, so can't really track anything

I just hope it gets here before Friday.

 

Hold on, smells of......fish? the fuck?

i know, but no word of a lie it smelt like it had been chucked in the back of a fish lorry.

Same, until this morning at 9 the tracking showed "in transit" somewhere in Bologna (makes no sense as it's even further away from me than Arezzo 😕)

 

Also can't figure why a random unknown italian store had these pistols in stock when half europe is still preordering them from Asia

postage logistics is truly a mystery. you could post something down the street and it'd take longer to turn up than if you'd posted it across half the planet.

Yep, bought 2 batteries from the same shop I bought the AAP from a while ago (bought them for a mate) on eBay, it took a month for them to arrive. And they forgot one -.- (they refunded it quickly tho, literally 2 minutes after contacting them)

Yes, your assumption is correct.

I could have used shoe glue, but I didn't have any around.

I found hot glue to be quite fast too compared to my old method of attaching netting (tons and tons of zip ties).

 

For my next project I'll make sure to have some shoe glue around, so I can experiment with that as well

I love the stuff, I also use it as a crude waterproofing material for certain projects along seems that need extra strength! Dude you need amazon prime

Heh. I had a prime subscription, then cancelled it because of two reasons:

Don't like how Amazon treats workers (especially here in Italy, there have been reports of almost slavery conditions) and I don't use it enough to justify the fee, even if it's small, I order maybe once or twice a year from there. 2019 has been an exception as some of the products I got from Amazon I couldn't find elsewhere..

https://frvtailoring.co.uk/collections/shooters-belt

 

Those are the ones without the D-ring (which I honestly don't need).

Colour choice will be hard (or not), because I actually mix match my stuff.

I mostly wear green bottoms and A-Tacs FG top for tournaments and M81 or whatever is clean when playing regular skirmishes.

 

Nylon is almost always A-Tacs iX + either a OD or genuine MC pack.

The pouches that will go on the belt are in genuine MC.

Green every time for me then. It just tends to go with "everything" best and will never look out of place.

https://frvtailoring.co.uk/collections/shooters-belt/products/frv-tailoring-green-shooters-belt

They also have a 20% off for the whole month.

 

2020 is definitely off for a good start, not much for my wallet tho

Bottle and bag. Luxury 😂

 

Regards

Can you play in a less physical role?

 

Last game I did a chap twisted his ankle first day in and ran all the coms for the rest of the week.  

Unfortunately not, our role is to hike around the place doing shit.

I do feel much better than yesterday to be fair, at least I didn't wake up cursing every deity known to man like I did yesterday.

 

Ankle is still swollen and looks like a melon, I have no idea how it happened, I just woke up like that. I guess I strained my Achilles's tendon because rocking my foot back and forth hurts like a bitch.

"lead time is 5 - 15 days"

-FRV 2k20

 

I guess no LEO or serving Military ordered anything these days, afaik they get the priority over us bb slingers

Guess not. Great times eh?

maybe someone cancelled an order that happened to be the same as what you wanted?

"Gnubrick"

I'd buy one! 😁

Well my barrel doesn't want to move even with both grub screws removed

installing the CU chamber was a twat (especially the c-clip, that part was super annoying)..

i'm sure it was a bastard getting it installed in-situ, much easier if you can remove the outer and drop-in the whole inner assembly.

Yup, but it's in there now

i just pray nothing happens to it or the rubber/barrel.

Out of stock in Belgium.

I will order directly from them, it's 50 odd yuros for 4 packs and shipping.

Yeah my bad, had 9 m4 mags to do...

I have 6 M4 mags, 3 ARP9 mags and I'll keep a spare set for when I get more ARP midcaps.

Quite surprised by the price as well!

I really thought it would be some overpriced piece of junk, considering the 9mm version goes for €80/90 in "local" shops.

Gonna take my M4s there as well and try it. If it feeds, it's mine.

If it doesn't, well, I'll stick to flash mags

good for tournaments because it's one less battery to worry about (and less weight to sling around, as my current drum mag feels like it's made of lead lined granite)

It is gonna be fun.

Weather forecast says it's already heavily raining up there, and it's gonna rain all day tomorrow xD

I wonder if I should prepare my scuba gear as well..

 

I just don't know what chest rig to take with me, considering I will bring my 2300bb drum + one spare lonex flash mag (which will stay empty in my pack), a multitool, compass, short 10cm ruler, pens, pencils, some gardening shears aaand a lot of butt paper..

 

So it's either my Mini Mav or my TMR

Alright.

I'm soaking wet. Even after a spare change of clothes.

Hasn't stopped raining once, the trail was difficult to begin with, the rain just turned it into a mud and slippery rocks madness.

I had to give up at three quarters of the event because I was getting terrible leg cramps, the rest of my team carried on for the last 2 objectives.

But it was damn fun, this kind of events allows for objective recon rather than doing stuff basically blind. We spent about an hour observing and sneaking up on one of the objectives, and when the HQ gave us a green light we "closed" it in less than 3 minutes, eliminating the whole defense in a matter of seconds and completing all the tasks.

 

Results aren't out yet but I'm pretty confident we got another first place.

 

Gear wise, the kit I chose turned out to be way too heavy for the terrain, especially my gun, which turned into a slab of granite with that drum.

 

Next tournament will see a belt + pack kit with the arp9, hopefully the weather won't be as shit as it was today, further eliminating the bulk and weight of waterproofs.

 

On top of that I probably need a new pair of boots, my current Crispi ones are getting a tad destroyed and they don't grip that much anymore, along with Gore-Tex slowly giving up on life.

We ended up in 1st place.

We now need another 1st to have access to the national finals.

No stress btw 😂

I know it does, but apart from one thing everything else has vanished.

Meanwhile my colleague is getting all his stuff delivered less than a week after the order 😕

In a similar vein, ordered x5 products from overseas (HK / RU & Germany), all have RM tracking - All left their country of origin around 3 weeks ago (pre lockdown) but zero updates apart all from all showing in transit on RM Tracking & eBay

 

1 delivered, 4 more to go.

No news from customs though.

All the US based items can't be shipped anymore, UK based items went from €15~ shipping to 40+

And all the Chinese shit I had in my watching list now cost as much as buying them locally.

I am tempted to buy from Aliexpress but I have no idea how good of a website it is.

Bought a few things from Aliexpress & DHGate, haven't had any issues with my orders. Even asked to cancel an order & refund once, it was done quite promptly. Stick with the larger sellers with actual reviews and you should be fine 

right now might not be the best time to order, might get huge delays, ive been waiting for batteries for a month now and theyve still not touched down in UK

I cannot find it either... 👌🏻

Shit.

Right when I was looking at buying a new gun 😕

It's not showing up for me if I search for it, but it is there if I connect to the url directly. 🤔

Yup.

 

I now need to buy one more.

Four?  Four?

 

@Rogerborg I miss old TNG trek, new stuff doesn't do anything for me. Sniff.

I checked every magazine I have. They all get stuck to the chamber (I'm testing with the units on their own, not inside the gun).

I have measured the diametre and:

 

Maxx ME: 9.25mm

Maxx TE: 9.25mm

SHS/Specna chambers: 9.02

 

Need to shave off 0.1mm all around the tube, will do it by hand as soon as I find a decent piece of sandpaper (or a very light pass with a dremel at the lowest speed possible with a stoney tool)

i'd say sandpaper is gonna be your best bet, trying to get an even surface with a dremel is gonna be a right pain when doing the outside of a circle.

 

it's a tricky one, the split feed tube seems kinda weak but also seems to work quite well, when i was running mine it'd feed every last round which was odd at first having to pump a bunch of rounds into the dirt to be sure it was clear.

So, ended up using a file in an arcing motion, which didn't turn out too bad.

I almost royally fucked it up because I went a little bit too deep on the rear part (which engages the bb retainer on the magazine) but I managed to fix that...sort of...

 

I'm at 9.08 now, I'll give it another pass at the front and sides (working on the Maxx sport which has a "fixed" tube instead of the leverage thingy, I have also removed the dumb tiny bb retention spring in the process).

 

Worst case I'll ask the guys at Maxx to send me another feed tube.

Yeah, this m100 isn't an m100 at all.

Luckily I had this unnamed spring that dropped the power down to 0.91/0.92J

 

Yes, I bought an SHS M100 a couple of years back from some cowboy outfit, M42AK, or similar, and ended up getting 1.3J (humblebrag) out of a stock CYMA piston, 3/4 cylinder and a 229mm 6.02 ZCI barrel.  Ouch.

 

Mind you, a Kyou M90 spring dropped it to 1.1J, which is about what I'd expect, so I'm not sure of the SHS was that much over, or if it was just my awesome, accidental air-sealing skills that did it.

damn cowboys 🙂 🙂 

Posted screenshots into the blog thread 

I don't understand..  guess I'm missing what you're talking about 

 

This thread, I posted the screenshots from that FB link in there if you want to take a look.

 

The FB post hasn't been removed though, but it's in a private group you many not be a member of (sniper ops), this would explain why you can't see it.

Zci 22tpa, shs 13:1 short stroked by two, 11.1 plugged in.

 

Now waiting for the new Peruns (v2 in the pdw, v3 in the ak)

do the peruns let you drop the fire rate? might be the easiest way if you're installing them anyway.

The new ones seem to have some sort of ROF control.

But I might ultimately just run it in a 7.4, don't really need more than 20 rps in woodland and this thing does 16/18..

But hey, now I know it works

Grippy liner, similar to the one in WAS pouches. I expect it to wear out eventually, but the pouches still have two more retention "systems" in form of traditional bungee top and an adjustable shock cord going through the middle section of the pouch.

 

All in all, for €18 per pouch, they are really, really well made!!

 

I also got two pistol pouches but can't test them because I forgot my pistol mags at home -.- but they're basically the same thing, without the top bungee, scaled down.

 

I'll try and get sum pics

I just looked them up on the Helikon site.

 

I take it these are stand alone pouches rather than the inserts?

Yep they are standalone pouches

 

 

I expect he thought the same when he was teaching you lol

Regards 

Motorcycle trip, not bicycle.

 

He can't drive anymore, so he is stuck at the hotel until a friend of mine rents a van and picks us up on Tuesday lol.

 

At least we can still visit some WW1 museums around here which is the theme of this holiday 

Ok.

Hope he makes a good recovery.

Enjoy the museums.

👍

Regards 

Not a lot of activity on them , and what there is comes from the shallow end of the gene pool ? 

What forum is that? 

Only a handful of users left and they are definitely not smart ones.

 

Mods think they have the supreme knowledge of airsoft and they shit quite hard on new users who try to gather information on the game.

 

Forum layout doesn't help either as it's really chaotic

 

Btw it's SAM (soft air mania).

Rough estimate somewhere around(25rps*12)/18=~16-17rps

 

Ofc might be a tad higher than that as the relative load on the motor will be lower with the lower ratio.

 

Maybe 16:1 might be better gives an estimate of 18-19rps

 

Yeah, figured something like that.

 

I'll get a 16:1 set then, hopefully it'll bring the RPS down enough to make the gun feed fine on high caps, gonna short stroke by 4 (1 pickup, 3 release) to keep the same energy output.

Change of plans, I'll use a 18:1 set instead.

Seems the same as usual to me.

Only with a small uptick in pro kmcs posts.

I don't have Facebook (trust me your life is better without it) but is every video titled "ghillie sniper destroys entire team gets banned and cheater punished" ?

I only use it for those "XX owners" groups that are actually useful.

 

It's more like the quality of posts and answers.

 

And of course all the KM fanboys literally switching off their brains whenever the almighty God of being above the rules posts something.

Just buy the SSG1 and be done with it.

I don't need a whole new gun, I just need those 2 parts for my honey badger (handguard and maybe the stock) and ARP-9 (stock) 

Can't you get a drop stock adapter 3d printed?