Adolf Hamster

[negative airsoft]FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU[/negative airsoft]

basically all aeg's are functionally a 20+year old design, doesn't make them bad, and from what i've seen of the guts of the new fancy re-designs with rumble packs and proprietory parts i'd rather stick with the tried and proven systems. there's a bunch of options, although as skara suggests if it's your only gun then you should strongly consider sending to a reputable tech rather than have a go yourself. have a look here to familiarise yourself with the clockwork nightmare that is the guts of an airsoft gun: afaik ics stock internals are meant to be pretty good, probably just a clean up and sort the air seal job. skara is on the money that a gate warfet would give a nice boost in trigger response, although installation does require soldering. are you playing indoors or outdoors? that'll affect what you want to be focusing on

Not seeing an airline? Not that i want to look at that picture for any length of time.....

it's like ray mears in a dye mask.....

you know what's better than a usp right? hmm, might have to look into that and see, i do have the original box i'll maybe try setting it up and seeing what they say.

what i'm curious about now is did he cut the barrel down himself or can you actually buy aeg barrels that short?

y'see this is why i normally lead with the caveat of "within the extremes" but this isn't a case of performance, this is a case of dafuq dis

i've played this game long enough and i've used enough small secondaries to know barrel length isn't critical, but jesus.....

i'm only seeing 1.5 m4's in there, where's the other half a gun?

So I’ve decided to have a bit of a clearout, I normally have a policy of not selling gats but tbh I’ve reached the point where I’m only fielding a couple of guns so not much point keeping everything. First up is a boneyard vsr clone, cost me £20 for the bare gun deactivated and with a few hand-me down parts she’s just about functional but not any better than a stock gun, maybe a good base if someone wants a shell to start off a build. Mainly got it to try out bolt guns and it’s just not my style. Shooting ~0.8j, consistency is ok just a weak spring for our 1j limit. Reckoning maybe £40 scope included? Next is an even more boneyard cybergun (kwc?) 1911, no mags and don’t let the externals fool you she’s pretty much dead inside, especially the trigger mech. Pretty much only good for parts, or if someone wants a pre-weathered a1 style body No idea what she’s shooting, hasn’t been functional in a long time. No mags. £20 tops methinks? Now we have a lockdown boredom project m4, built off an old king arms receiver, has an e&c qd gearbox and a hodge podge of internals, good compression although reckon the hop-nozzle seal isn’t quite right as she’s about 0.6j. she’s wired for a GATE mosfet, currently has a nanohard fitted but a warfet would be a straight swap. only cutoff lever I had that fit had been modded for an internal mosfet so she’s locked to semi. The red dot has a crack in the lens but is still functional. Again, another parts/project gun. Maybe £75? Finally we have a VLTOR front rail, pretty weathered but very much a solid piece of fore-end. Comes with the flip up sight and whatever bolt-on rail sections I can find. Was always too heavy for my liking: No idea what these are worth, whether it’s legit or a clone, so any advice welcome. First up is a “battle worn” tm hicapa, perfectly functional with 2 leak free mags. Mods wise she’s just running a pdi 6.01 inner barrel and home-brew tritium night sights (they’re not very bright but readable in darkness). Nothing wrong with her shooting wise, I just prefer running a makarov. Was keeping her as a night gun but I doubt I’m going to be doing many night shoots these days: Reckoning £75 all in? Next is a 40mm launcher of unknown provenance, bit rattly and the safety has been removed to get enough movement to fire a 40-mike properly, otherwise perfectly functional if not pretty. Comes with a pair of 40-mikes that have seen some use but pretty good nick and work just fine. I just don’t get close enough to justify the extra weight of a tube…. Reckoning £100 all in (£20 for the tube and £40 apeice for the shells)? next are a bunch of Cyma 140-round ak midcaps, fielded a couple of times but i preferr the straighter 5.45 type: £20 for the lot? And finally we have this heretical beast: She started out life as an AGM mg42, but the split gearbox design made reliability atrocious as an aeg and the receiver was pretty weak (dropped it and she bent). She’s been straightened up and has had a pair of 10mm steel bars mounted inside the receiver to re-enforce it, possibly one of the rare guns where “gun hits don’t count” might have some actual validity. the bipod snapped at the pivot point and has been bolted back together as solid as can be done. She’s running a polarstar jack with a modded sr25 nozzle. To get her cycling well at 1j the inner barrel is much shorter than the original, but I’ll include the original (all 650mm of it). Fps is of course adjustable and for added hilarity she can also be switched to semi-only operation if you want the worlds worst cqb gun. The right hand half of the fcu screen doesn’t display numbers but the programming works just fine (you just can’t tell what the actual number is). Currently she’s setup for firing .2’s at ~1200rpm (to match the original rof) I’ve no idea how fast the box feeds but she should be capable of faster. The original magazine mech was pretty godawful and blew up immediately, much of her life has been spent gathering dust while I figured out how to get something decent on there. Currently it’s a classic army M249 box mag, this is entirely external (it’s a hicap that cuts off when it’s wound up) so it’s entirely feasible to do actual mag changes if you had another box and the box adaptor is removable if you want to revert to classic configuration. Comes with original gurttrommel shell, the plan was to try and 3-d print an adaptor to put the 249 box mech inside it (there is space). Also comes with a polarstar mini fcu and m4 jack nozzle (modded for low-flow but can be reverted to default, it’s just some glue plugging the ports). The sling is a pkm sling. Not the worlds most accurate gun and it’s a pain to carry, but it makes one hell of an impression. Reckoning around the £500 mark? Any tips on how to the hell you post a package that big would be appreciated, it’s a lot of gun and not light….

Theres not too much between the precision/super precisions for feeding as far as i can tell. Always heard the horror stories, but in giving tracers a go went with geoffs super naturals and they look/feel pretty nice, will have to see how they shoot.

Surprised you've had issues with geoffs, they're very much my go-to brand and feed in guns that i know are very fussy.

agreed, you can notice it between .28's and .32's but only if you're really looking for it. although quality is king, i'd take good .28's over bad .32's any day of the week.

that's exactly what i'm talking about. i doubt it'd work so well for regular skirmish days given the difficulty in maintaining even very simple rules, but i can see a game with a bunch of decent folks running that kind of ruleset being pretty fun. although that said any airsoft game with a bunch of decent folks tends to be fun regardless.

the opposite, they amplify noise so you're more likely to hear hits...

unfortunately i can sympathise with this, over here there are folk who can fail to call a 40-mike..... flat 1j limit is a tricky one, on the one hand yes you can just blast at any range and not worry about what bb weight or med you're using. but on the other hand it basically cuts out the practicality of some guns, particularly bolties and machine guns (meaning properly weighted things not those stupid all plastic m249's). i reckon the 1.3/2.5j limit is probably about right, although if i were god of airsoft i'd be interested in seeing caliber/weight based limits, to try and get guns being used more in their proper roles.

at least with the maxx unit it's easy enough to add the tracer module on later if you feel like it. i'm still waiting for their stop on empty system to come out, that would be nice to have working.

Just call it a training regime edit: in reference to duck's meme

surprised he didn't mention the frankly excellent camo job, i can barely see it!

that's some confidence given your postings in the whats your weakness thread.....

Stock g&g m14 for an mws?

another one of the golden rule of airsoft, however many weeks a retailer says it'll take, well that's how many months it'll take.

surprised i missed this. i've not worked much on ares guns, but what i have didn't impress me much, not surprising it needed work but looks like it's coming together nicely. some good highlights though for what things like poor aoe can do to a gun. looks like a standard m4 hop? very much a blessing that.