Adolf Hamster

Are you sure you're ok? I mean i know lockdown has us all a little riled up but you might want to stop before you become a speedsofter and we'll have to excommunicate you.....

yeah, @Asomodai was saying a bunch of folks dont like it. took a look at the review on arnies and tbh a lot of the issues are stuff i can fix/live with. for my needs if i can slap a ml autobot in there and lob at least one magful of .32's before refilling i'm happy.

fair point, although still quite the gap to make up.

are you uk based? because i have a nagging feeling 360fps on .25's is gonna raise some eyebrows at chrono......

brings our running total up to 670, which by the usual 60% yeilds £400 it's interesting when you compare it to other sales in the hpa section:

are you wanting this for the looks and damn the side-effects, or are you wanting it as a practical tool? because if it's the latter then tbh a shotgun or a rifle are fine, but strapping one to the other is just going to make both less effective.

hopefully not too long, mans needs his emotional support grach

kinda sounds like it's a job for a second X-access?

the amount of times the makarov gets confused for a pp...... i suppose in fairness it's a pretty blatant copy, although granted internally the russians did a lot of simplifying work to the point it's more of a derivative than a clone. if anything it's impressive they managed to do anything to simplify a simple blowback pistol.

tbh i'd view it as the most inviting challenge to do it properly and have the mechanism rotating and blowing back. the issue really is how to get the blowback to push the action rod back, hence thinking perhaps having the mechanism inside the gas tube, not sure on the diameter but maybe you can get a single co2 cartridge in there, or have the thing as a big gas reservoir.

I mean that because a lot of guns have locking mechanisms that aren't very visible in operation, the gbbr version doesn't need to have any mechanism to replicate it. Hence mentioning the m14 as one of the main exceptions from the top of my head because the fake bolt has to rotate. Compared to the charlton where the whole point is you can see everything moving in a symphony of steampunk awesomeness

not sure geoffs branding works in box form though, looks kinda medicinal. i mean it is medicinal but not for the person using them

it's electrical tape, duct tape costs extra

wait, you made a bunch of cardboard ammo boxes? that's both weird and cool in equal measure

brings the brand new total up to £620 then

afaik the pmm is basically just a double stack version, although i'm not sure if it was a russian military thing or an export thing. there comes a point where you have to go "fuck it, close enough"

how about this: m4 base: £190 jack: £266 hop unit £53 barrel: £61 hoping that the stock isn't actually being held together by electrical tape and cable ties: priceless

So theyre still not taking any uk orders? They have a thing i want, and it'll be more than 135

yeah, the black grips are really surprisingly comfy to use though, i initially wanted brown too but frankly now i preferr the black.

there's a p230 that keeps ocasionally grabbing my eye in the classifieds, i keep trying to tell myself no but it's getting harder. in terms of makarov's i'd say the KWC version is let down in a few respects- it's pretty spicy out of the box (although can be adjusted, mine was taken down to 1j by its previous owner), your options for parts are limited (particularly hop rubbers) so how it shoots is how it shoots, it's single action only and feels slightly out of proportion (bit big). however the gun itself is reasonably solid and as others have said shoots pretty decently in all weathers. what lets it really fall flat on its face is the magazines, they just leak bad. and have fun finding spare valves. fortunately you can trim down the lip on a 1911 valve to get it to fit which makes up for the fact that you just aren't getting proper replacements. of the blowback makarovs (because who cares about nbb ) the WE offering imo is by far the superior, takes marui pattern hop rubbers/barrels, a very good hop design, has the proper da/sa action (with one of the best triggers i've met on a da/sa setup), spares are actually obtainable and the mags dont leak. however the tradeoff as with most of we's stuff is it don't work in winter. a different piston head (which will likely need some fettling to fit because its thinner than standard) can help effeciency but even that had its limits.

i'm guessing the trials result in "nope, nothing out there that offers enough to merit the replacement" true, although one would assume they'd be using an rcs pack which would compensate. although i don't think they were really planning on actually fighting in space, it was more an xcom halo drop anywhere in the world kind of deal. couldn't see it having much future, it's a lot of time, effort and expense to sustain when they could just build a couple of extra carriers.

that does make sense. remember seeing a thing about guns in space and it's interesting that for the most part they just straight up work without modification. there's supposedly issues with oil boiling off and long-term diffusion welding the parts together but can't imagine that'd be any more of a servicing challenge than you'd get on earth (eg rust, dust, sand etc)

what was wrong with the existing knife? space suits tend to have a lot of kevlar in them anyway to prevent from precisely the problem of punctures from sharp objects so any knife isn't really going to be a massive help. so that leaves internal/ground landing use and in both situations a regular pokeymajig will do the job.