Adolf Hamster

I always thought it was bad ballistics

closer to the gearbox, although if that's worse then could try the opposite. if it's a non-factory motor it's also possible that the pinion isn't a good mesh with the bevel (ie things like the profile of the teeth) and that'll limit how smooth sounding it can get, which then gets to swapping out gearsets.

Not horrible, as mentioned check the motor height. Best practice for motor height is start wound in all the way, if you start all the way out it might strip gears but if its too tight the motor will just stall (dont hold a stalled motor for any length of time mind you as the current will be trying to cook it) If that's the best sounding it can get maybe drop the bevel a tad and try again.

The bad news is there will be many many mistakes left to go on the road to learning good teching. The good news is a boneyard gun is absolutely a great way to start, unlike some of us that made the mistake of doing so on their first and only pew........

It might be that you have to just install/check/remove/adjust multiple times to get it perfect. Thats the thing, its not the difficulty, its the labriousness of having to try adjust try until you get it dialled in.

Or hit cover near you

i'd argue the lions share of perceived longer flight time is due to the heavier bb's travelling further, ie past a short distance the heavier round can actually be faster at getting from a to b until it's the case that the lighter round can't even make it to b. although in the case when the bucking can't spool up the heavies without robbing enough energy to negate the range benefits your point does apply. however if the circumstances mean you're not using the extra range then no point spending extra for a benefit you're not using. heavier rounds became more available/cheaper, off the shelf buckings made it easier to spin them up, and enough people started using them to notice the benefits.

Afaik the aims stock mounts to the standard wood stock tang, so a standard 47 should fit the bill.

Dodged a bullet then Unfortunately the soldering (and depending on gearbox type dissassembly) is going to be on the cards for any mosfet that's using the original trigger components. Personally i like the gate system, with the 2 signal wires to the trigger and 2 heavy wires to the motor as once you've gone to the trouble of soldering the gun the mosfet can be easily unplugged and moved to a new home.

hopefully that's not a "got the despatch email before reading this" kind of oh bugger?

Suppressors do work very well on hpa/gas non-blowbacks where theres minimal action noise.

Personally, i'd splash the extra for the warfet. The merf i found to be dissappointing and finnicky (read impossible) to properly program. The warfet has more functionality (namely proper precocking) and the programming card is easy (if slow) to use. Edit: worth noting that the wiring requirements for the merf and warfet are identical, so the warfet wont be any harder to install/swap between pews.

The f2000 would probably get a vote. Reasonably long barrel for less muzzle pop, plastic body to dampen the noise and most of the noise being cradled by the shooters body is a pretty good recipe for quietness. That said, it isnt that quiet as the user given your ear is right next to the box so i'm mostly relying on the comments of others. Generally when it comes to quietness its usually hpa's and gas non-blowbacks (mk23, revolvers etc) that get mentioned, where you can be standing 6 foot away from the shooter and the sound of the bb's hitting the target is more audible than the gun.

You forgot the 20 minutes dedicated to listing every individual control on the gun and how ambidextrous it is.

As above the perun ab++ or its gate equivalent the warfet. There are other mosfets that do burst like the merf but tbh i wouldnt really consider them worthy competition. Either way they'll need a seperation of wiring between the trigger contacts and the motor which for most gearboxes means cracking them open. Thats one of the reasons i like the gate ecosystem, as if you wire the gun for a cheaper basic mosfet like the nanoasr then changing up to a warfet is a plug and play operation and you could theoretically swap one mosfet between multiple guns (if you note down the settings for each pew). They have some disadvantages, specifically that because precocking is reliant on cutoff timing the first shot after a burst of auto wont be timed properly, which depending on your shooting style and disposition could range from inconsequential to annoying.