Adolf Hamster

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.

see now that works, plus you still get the proper folding action. would rather a 20-rounder in it though.

BURN THE HERETIC!

y'know i always did wonder why when you're going to all the expense, the pain, the effort of plastic surgery would you not at least choose to have the result look good? remember seeing the story about some korean pop star who started off pretty good looking, went deep down the plastic surgery rabbithole thinking her looks were what made her popular (and refusing to accept the end of her 5 minutes of fame), ran out of money and injected cooking oil into her own face in desperation which backfired bad. and it finished with her wanting plastic surgery to get back to looking how she looked to begin with. of course there's a paralell here- people who start off with a perfectly nice ak and put an m4 stock on it thinking it'll make it look good

fucking tuuuuune anyway, i vaguely recall wasnt there one of the higher end painters doing 2-tones done up as sci-fi guns? making stuff look like it came straight out of borderlands? as i recall they looked pretty tasty to the point that you'd want one even if you had ukara.

Nope. I actually preferr the ugg boot. But then i dont like the extended rails on scars and i seem very much in the minority on that too.

See this is how it begins..... It'll be 13:1 short stroked before it ever hits the field It can be a rewarding thing getting a gun running sweet especially if you do it with care and attention rather than filling it with expensive bits. The trick with the maple leaf hop rubbers is they seem to have marginally longer feedlips than most brands, great for air seal (and therefore accuracy) but can make it hard for the mag to shove a bb past it. Way to check is to look up the feed tube when the barrel is installed see if there's too much poking out, a little is ok but more than about 0.5mm and it might be causing issues (although normally that's occasional double feeds in a sea of blanks) Generally i keep a pdi w-hop handy as my go-to for guns that dont like ml stuff.

Good work brother, the pervasive fitting of m4 stocks onto not m4's is a plague that needs stopped at every opportunity.

tried that, didn't work, followed up with just straight wiring, that killed the mag. it *might* survive on 7.4v pass-through on an hpa but i'm not sure it'd stand up to a proper sized 7.4 and i know it can't handle 11.1

twice the fun, literally.....

see i can maybe squeeze 2 mags out of mine on a good day but really you've only got 1 reliably. although granted that's 2 mags of hilarious range lifting .32's on the stock hop..... ahh the lottery of WE guns..... intermittent issues- aka running out of ammo afaik it's about 2500rounds it holds which wont last too long at that rate of fire.

v3 triggers, that's all i'm gonna say......

yep, you just plug the line into the same place the gas can goes. afaik the issue with those things isn't so much gas as it is bb's, the magazine is the spindle that the barrels rotate around so you gotta spin the gun round to pour ammo into it. our local has one they're trying to mount onto their site landy, but they've been having some reliability issues (haven't asked them specifically whats up with it)

because the original was stripped?

nearly, you do @ then the name, eg @Adolf Hamster so, the agm '42, ooh boy this is gonna be a can of worms and i'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news. there are a fair number of issues with this thing, and it took a LOT of work to get mine to the position where it would be fieldable (note in this case fieldable means you pull the trigger and bb's come out in the vague direction you're pointing it). problem number 1: the magazine mech is awful, i doubt you're gonna get it to feed past stock speeds (ie by wiring it to the main battery) without blowing the motor, i sure didn't. it's a really underpowered mech compared to most other brands and the way it deals with blockages/a full bb tube is to just stall the motor. i ended up settling for a custom made mount to fit a classic army m249 box which has a sprung auto-wind and cutoff, this looked absolutely hideous but it did work. i can't say for sure if using a g&g mag is an option to preserve the gurttrommel look. i did try fitting mechs to a real '42 ammo can (the big 250 round belt jobby) but it's hard to get a mech to feed down a metre of tube reliably. problem number 2: the gearbox shell setup is aoe killer central, maybe the bullgear shell might fix this but tbh the split design with the gears in the handle and the piston in the reciever means any looseness in the grip mounting is gonna be a stripped piston, hell you look at it from the wrong angle its a stripped piston. problem number 3: the reciever is made of cheese- don't drop it because it will bend, the guy i sold mine to described it as "pasta" which sounds about right. it is possible to reinforce it with big steel bars inside the reciever but that's above and beyond your normal teching and into fabrication territory. also the bipod is made of cheese too, it'll break, but i think it's feasable to fit an RS one when it does. my honest opinion is your best course of action is to skip trying to get it working as an aeg and go straight into the hpa route, leave the magazine stock and set the engine to fire whatever speed the mag will feed to. of course that's not easy either as it's a weird nozzle length, i ended up taking a nozzle for a g&g sr25 and turning it down on a lathe to the right length, then it'll run fine as long as you don't drop/knock it and bend something. of course the results of all this work is gonna yeild a very heavy and awkward gun that's a pain to aim and doesn't do anything an arp9 with a drum mag can do at a quarter of the weight.