Adolf Hamster

For really tiny stuff its good, i use the drill and dremel combo for cutting bolts

a mate of mine does. although it can be quite the lottery buying russian stuff, always use paypal.

yeah, not cheap even as a repro, but whilst the internals are cheap chinese red dot territory (hello parallax) the externals at least are very good, which for airsoft is pretty much 90% of what you want an optic to do anyway. there are rail mount versions of the kobra, although personally i'm not a fan of the C-more style sights. there have been a couple of legit kobras popping through the classifieds now and again, sadly never synchronised with me having money

depends, budget? theme for a particular decade? magnified/unmagnified? if you're looking for inspiration then have a look here at some of the steampunk insanity on the table: https://russianoptics.net unfortunately with the exception of the PSO, PK-A and the Kobra you're kind of stuck when it comes to repros (a statement i am happy to be corrected on if said correction comes with shop links) there are 2 versions i've seen for the PK-A, there's the nuprol version (which really doesn't look nice even from a distance) or this version which looks the part although the internals aren't particularly fancy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KVN2GQ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 my advice be careful how you treat that one, sadly the connection on mine died and it seems to be impossible to access it to re-solder without damaging the thing aside from that you're looking at having to get the real deal, especially for some of the weirder designs. fortunately quite a lot of the russian optics are not only still being made, but aren't completely insane pricing at least compared to western optics. i'm not long after ordering one of these bad boys which should hopefully confuse the shit out of people wondering what the hell it is: https://russianarmyshop.eu/russian-red-dot-scopes/1275-npz-pk-1-1p63-obzor.html

i don't know my italian all that well, but don't eat the contents of "pasta lucidante" no chuck there, the one i'm thinking of is this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dremel-Keyless-Quick-Change-Multi/dp/B0002SMMY2 means you can chuck any of their tools, off-brand tools or drill bits in there no problem.

fingers crossed that's all thats up. unfortunately the world of accuracy (or what passes in airsoft for accuracy) is a rabbit hole that gets very deep, very expensive, and very technical very fast.

Yeah, i'm not so fussed on getting all the accessories cos i already have a pile built up. If you havent got one the mini chuck they do is an excellent add-on, so much better than the collets.

you're not alone, mine had the TK grip (which is really comfy btw) and externally it was standard everything. only thing i did was some diy night sights which worked surprisingly well. would be nice to cater to the folk who recognise that filling a gun full of holes is just asking for them to fill with dirt.

funny i got a 3000 as a christmas present, badly needed as my old one died months ago and i've been missing it.

maple leaf bucking with omega nub is probably the best performance to effort ratio imo. you get the same results as flat/rhop but without the effort to modify the bucking.

i may have done a thing...... https://russianarmyshop.eu/russian-red-dot-scopes/1275-npz-pk-1-1p63-obzor.html

yeah just keep an eye on the classifieds, the good thing is because you're gonna tinker with it anyway you can just worry about buying based on external condition.

aye it would be worthwhile. but it's still a scary proposition that there's nothing but my own honesty stopping me rocking up with say the dragonuv, legitimately passing chrono on 0.2's then spending the rest of the day blasting .48's far above the site limit. this is why i absolutely despise the "1fps over you're out" kind of sites, because as @Rogerborg is fond of saying "it's nothing but safety theatre" if they're not accounting for creep or chrono'ing people in-game.

there are a number of ways, but its kind of scary how many times i've chrono'd on the heavies (being 100% honest about the weight i'm running) only to be told "that's a little low" because the fps reading isn't 328 (even though the joule reading is saying 1j) and i've had to point out to them that the reading is correct. and that's without even trying to engage things like joule creep, lying about ammo weights or sneaky reg/npas/spring twiddling shenanigans.

^this, this, a thousand times this. if you don't know what you're at it's going to be pretty much guaranteed that something is gonna go wrong and you'll be doing the walk of shame- ask me how i know..... i'm not against learning teching btw, it's a skill i very much recommend people learn, but it's not something that should be learned on your first and only pew. i'd reccommend you maybe look into picking up something cheap on the classifieds and using that to tinker with.

the only way you're gonna feed an hpa gun from that kind of compressor is a direct feed in to the gun. i have done it for testing purposes, but it's not something you're gonna be fielding outside of perhaps a vehicle mount. i'd wax lyrical about the importance of respecting the hideously dangerous pressures hpa is supposed to use, but @Tommikka has covered that already.

Given most sites dont understand the basics of kinetic energy as it applies to different bb weights i'd assume not. Its kinda scary how easy it would be for folk who know a bit of how these things work to run as hot as they like. Or even with joule creep to run hot and not even realise.

Could be interesting if its done thematically, like a milsim sort of thing but with a level playing field.

it depends on what how far you want to go. personally, if you want a really nice solid ak at £300 then i'd be looking at the E&l 105's, https://gunfire.com/en/products/el-104-assault-rifle-replica-gen-2-1152202733.html (it's a 104 i know but for airsoft purposes you pretty much switch the mag to a 5.45 style and it's a 105) out of the box it'll run pretty damn snappy on 11.1v and aside from a little hop tweaking (ie fitting something like a macaron/omega nub combo) and a basic mosfet to preserve trigger contacts it's eminently fieldable. i'll not knock the cyma guns, if you know your teching you can easily get them shooting every bit as well as the e&l's for much less money, however the externals aren't going to be quite the same level of shiny. for the cyma's you'd have to do some air seal work as well as the bucking/nub but it'd probably work out cheaper. certainly the motor/gears will be perfectly fine with a good mosfet.

yep fortunately the place i'm currently playing at most of the players are pretty good at identifying the range difference. only problem is i'm hesitant to explain how i'm doing it whilst not running hot lest i lose my edge

Absolutely, the other fun fallacy is when folk seem to assume that because you're reaching out to their position that their own rounds are doing the same. Which is as ridiculous as the opposite trope of assuming every gun with a scope is a sniper and therefore shoots further.

Thats normally what i do these days, need a nice long distance to get everything set.

for semi the biggest boost would be looking at a mosfet with precocking, personally i'm kinda liking warfets these days. it'll take up a lot of the response time in semi whilst leaving the auto rof as-is. after that 13:1 with a slow-moderate motor would be the next go-to, although this would only really help if you're trigger spamming fast enough to trip up the system (ie faster than the system could sustain auto fire), of course this would come with a boost in auto rate of fire as well.

it has to be of decent length though. plenty of sites have "ranges" where you're talking maybe 10m max range, nowhere near good enough for setting a hop on even a 1j gun. even the range i was referring to in the op was 20m max and feasable to do with minimal hop.