Adolf Hamster

It's been said well enough already but it's a message worth repeating. When a much younger (but no less handsome 😛 ) hamster was starting out in this hobby he bought himself his favourite gun, a g&g f2000 because bad company 2. Needless to say as a serial tinkerer it didnt take me long to have the thing to bits and back again, and whilst the g&g implementation of the v6 box is an absolute dream to work on compared to an m4 it just means you can skip right past the easy mistakes and into the sneaky buggers that haunt you for years. For example, i installed an active brake mosfet after learning the hard way how quickly an 11.1v lipo can eat a set of trigger contacts if you let it. Had it been your common m4 of ak a new set of contacts is no big deal but being an oddball i had to order a whole trigger module from the states. So began the problems, i could never get it to fire reliably in semi auto, full auto was fine but the lack of semi annoyed me no end. I tried fully rewiring to heavy gauge wire, i tried different motors, i tried different gearing, nothing worked. And so she sat, for years, i loved and still love the quirky look, but every time i'd bring her out to play the janky trigger (bad enough at the best of times) always had me reverting to something else because even if she was running well i just didnt like using it. Turns out that looking good in a video game and actually handling a thing is a big difference. Eventually as my constant tinkering continued i ended up throwing in a warfet that was spare from another build and the penny dropped- gone was the semi auto issues that had plagued her the whole time i owned her, turned out all the fettling and filing of trigger components, lining things up just so wasnt actually the problem, it was the damned active brake. But by this point i was basically an ak convert, turns out that's the platform i most like using/working on, at least as far as airsoft goes. There are 2 key points from this story: 1. Taking some time, and actually getting hands on with a gun is worth the effort, you might love the looks of a particular platform from video games/movies etc and thats absolutely fine but you may well find that what you actually preferr to use irl is something completely different. 2. Jumping straight into trying to modify your pews, especially when you dont have a clear objective in mind and its your only pew is gonna be a recipe for disaster, trust me the walk of shame when your gun's stopped working or is shooting so wildly you couldnt hit the broad side of a barn from inside said barn gets real old the tenth time it happens and when you're just starting out it will happen a lot. That isnt to say you shouldnt get into tinkering with your pew, its fun and ultimately quite rewarding and something i absolutely advocate people should have a go at, but it's definately smarter to wait until you've got a reliable spare to fall back on. As has been mentioned paying someone to work on your pew is a minefield, there are a few about who will do excellent work but just as many who either dont know, dont care or both and will just about go through the motions of fitting whatever expensive parts they think they can convince you to spend money on with no care as to wether or not that will actually improve the guns performance.

What it says to me is that they arent confident enough in their tech departments work to stand by it like it were a new gun, which discourages any notion of buying even a new gun from them if you might need to avail of the warranty. As someone who has only ever played 2 games with an ootb pew i can say that i'd rather spend a month with an eye cast lazily over the classifieds for a good secondhand example at secondhand prices. Although i suppose to be fair, i'm not one who's put off by a little bit of natural weathering on a gun

Torch+treebranch+place to hide= hours of fun listening to people get annoyed at that guy who wont take his hits.

I dunno, seems ok to me. Certainly better than the abominations many people willingly do to their tm hicapas......

Em2

Not only can i beleive it, i'm not even surprised.

whilst i don't disagree with the notion that many cases of cheat calling may well be the result of misinformation, it's worth noting that this doesn't mean there aren't people wearing copious amounts of plot armour in this hobby.

v6 maybe?

I did think paintball might be more suited to the curved barrel thing, intuitively it would seem less strenuous on the round and i'd have assumed an airsoft style hop might results in bursting rounds if its set too tight. Plus curved barrel would only suit one particular weight/energy combination which wouldn't be popular in airsoft given people want to make dmr's out of basically everything, change hop weights on a whim etc.

I did suspect basically this: Although i've never really dug into it enough to find out conclusively. The issue i have with that as an explanation is that whilst the bb is in the barrel, the airflow past it will be inverted so the magnus effect would be pulling it down against the bottom of the bore, and that additional airflow around the bb would magnify this effect, ie that it would rattle in a tightbore and run along the bottom of a widebore. I did for a while contemplate the idea of an intentionally curved barrel, putting a slight radius along its length to force the bb to roll along the top surface which would help add a little more spin (although likely still need a hop for adjustability) but more importantly mean that the bb would consistently be riding along one surface. Ultimately though in practical terms the trick is getting a pew consistent enough to even be able to notice these sorts of minutia, and that generally the main boost from a better quality barrel is not in its nominal diameter but in how consistent that diameter is along its length, how straight it is and how good the internal surface finish is.

Not in all cases, some setups can have a dramatic drop in power when the hop is almost/completely off, so dramatic the bb can struggle to even make it down the barrel. I've never quite figured exactly how that works but i've seen it often enough that i got into the habit of setting hops at least mid-way when bench testing. Hence why it bugs me when sites do the whole "chrono with the hop off" thing because its basically asking for false readings.

If it aint that then the only other explanation is all but 1 of those radios are dead, because i have no idea why you'd want more than 1 otherwise......

Also why are there as many radios as there are spare mags?

Ahh yes, fully upgraded..... With what? By whom? And to what benefit?

Even better when they shout "freindly fire" and play on, needless to say continuing to fire on them rarely ends amicably.

I've used macarons with pdi, cant say had any real issues.

Is that a front sight block complete with a cut stub of outer barrel i see pictured?

Dont think i ever managed to push it north of 30, but then i was very much tuning for accuracy and mainly running in semiauto. It's worth noting that the auto rof doesn't really define the snappyness in semi auto.

I have in my memory the f2 has an 11mm stroke of the nozzle, so slightly longer doesnt affect it too much. I ran the 800c and cant say i noticed any issues, can't be turned off independant of setting the pressure but otherwise worked well. Certainly kept the jack fed. The f2 is a bit trickier to get to be real speedy without sacrificing accuracy, it'll handle mid 20's fine but an a10 it isn't.

Definately required, very similar setup to what i was running (247 in the m4 and similar in the e&l) I had no issues running the m4 nozzle in the e&l, so you might be fine.

Mans is still a fan of the f2 as a solid all rounder, it'll take some tuning to get the best out of it but it can provide excellent consistency and has a nice range of nozzle/triggerboard combos should you wish to give it a different home. If you're running it at low energy then a low flow poppet is a worthwhile investment.

I'd lean towards the warhead, the ramp up speed makes for a better percieved snappyness. Only downside (although afaik they might have alleviated it on their newer motors) is the contacts on the warhead are much more delicate, so a lot more care needs to be taken on the install rather than stuffing wires in willy nilly.

gotta love it, no detail of exactly what was replaced, why it was replaced, what the replacement part is, or even any claim (let alone guarantee) that the replacement part netted any improvement in performance over the original.

Out of context it's saying they have a good relationship with rs vortex so won't sell clones of vortex products?

How dissappointed would you be to buy that, show up at the next game thinking you were gonna stand out with your limited edition faithful replica only to realise most people arent going to notice just another green m4.......