Adolf Hamster

didn't think the Israelis would have fell for the zip-22 marketing hype.....

i was debating bringing that up, about the perfect example of a great airsoft dmr platform that doesn't meet the usual requirements for real usage. ofc that's my thinking before you mentioned the idf, part of me is curious as to why and how they're using them.

tis a curious system, don't think i've seen anything like it on other hobbyist forums but i can't deny for the most part it seems to work. ofc very easy for something like this to go south if folk don't approach it with the attitude of it being advice with a bit of humour rather than flaming folk for no good reason.

the problem is that with such a vague definition of a semi-capable pew that's sub 350fps and can have a scope mounted you could recommend pretty much anything. for example: m14 sr25 dragonuv/svu vss/val fal g3 psg1 and that's a non-exhaustive list off the top of my head based on the vague notion of them being chambered in "dmr" cartridges (well, maybe not the vss/val but they commonly get used in airsoft for that purpose anyway). Needless to say they're available from multiple manufacturers according to your budget/taste, a few are available as gbb's, and all of them can, with varying degrees of effort, be converted to hpa. if we're not limiting ourselves to looking the part and only care about bb lobbing then you can add pretty much every aeg and even mk23 carbine conversions to that list (although granted that's assuming a level of tweaking over stock). so for example i could recommend you buy an RS dragonuv and install a polarstar F2, but that wouldn't be helpful if you didn't want to spend that much, if you didn't like hpa, or if you just simply don't like the dragonuv. likewise @Lozart's suggestion of the cyma m14 is totally valid, unless you just happened to not like the m14 in which case it's kinda pointless. if you want more targeted advice then it's worth thinking about how you're phrasing the question, eg; what sort of guns do you like the looks of? do you want it to look like a dmr or just be good at lobbing bb's? are you willing/able to modify over stock levels of performance? do you care if it's also capable of auto? do you want it to be a gbb, or is a regular aeg fine? what sort of budget do you have?

how long does it take to post from japan to america

in my experience the likelyhood of encountering someone who can't tell where hits came from is inversely proportional to how far you are from your respawn flag

true, and there's an argument to be made of the limited utility of even a truly silent pew given if you get a sneaky spot the first person you hit will be coming for you after respawn even if you avoid detection by his buddies.

it's a headmelter though, had the same thing with the f2000, sounded pretty damn loud as the shooter with your ear basically right next to the box but everyone else doesn't hear much. ofc for silence not much is gonna beat a well tuned solenoid hpa engine with a big foam filled can, i remember lending an f2 build to a work colleague and mid game musta been only 10 feet away and the only indication he was firing was i could see his finger pulling the trigger.....

Have they sorted the mag issue at least?

protip: when testing for sound, you can initially leave out the top end (cylinder, piston, tappet etc) leaving just the gears (you can also remove the COL too) that'll give you just the gear noise to listen to without being drowned out by other noise.

yep, they're constant energy systems as opposed to constant force systems (ie your gbb's/hpa's) so outside the extremes it won't make significant difference. that's not to say it won't change, but that's typically when you have a system with suboptimal sealing that gets fixed incidental to the actual swapping of barrels like re-seating/replacing the hop bucking or reassembling the unit into the gun. ofc how much those gains may be will be hard to quantify for any given gun.

are they? for obvious reasons i've never price checked the latter my advice- don't question it.....

yep, that's textbook symptoms. worth trying geoffs, worst case is it works and now you have to buy the good stuff

So its binding on loading? I have found some ammo/mag combos the ammo isnt as smooth and the extra friction causes the stack to bind on firing (tapping can free it up) which is what got me onto using geoffs in the first place, even when loading they're noticably smoother.

that is damn good consistency. going back to the original post i realise you're mentioning ammo binding up in the mags? which brand? might be worth trying a bag of geoffs to see if that fixes the mag issue and possibly by extension the random fliers?

fair point, could be a remnant from the manufacturing process. does it have a sealing o-ring on it? generally that's my go-to reason for nozzle changes as that's a key area for leaking if it isn't there.

hmm, that's an odd type of cracking. that face is the one responsible for sealing with the bucking lips, so it wouldn't surprise me to see it putting out some intermittent leaking with that damage depending on how it lines up with the bucking on a given round. if it were me i'd change it.

once made a little tool for unloading a little from midcaps for this reason, used a bit of random steel but since found that an inner barrel is the perfect length. cut a ~2" section, drill a hole in the cut end and stick a pin/grub screw in there as a stopper. as for the general case of guns needing to "warm up" i've seen it happen but never really found a hard and fast reason why, my m4 pre-hpa conversion used to chrono stupid low (like barely able to lob a bb through the chrono low) in the mornings but once it had a few mags through it then rest of the day it'd be fine. best guess is that once the grease/seals warmed up from a few shots it'd start sealing properly although this doesn't explain why on a cold day it didn't happen again after lunchtime.

yeah, it's a difficult one to be absolutely sure given any manufacturer could potentially have a bad batch, but avoiding brands with the reputation is the best we can really aim for.

it is, but given this is a sport where people are coming with varying degrees of technical knowledge (ie don't know the dangers of mesh) why make yourself the person who could have them learn the hard way?

because the aim of this sport is to have fun, not hurt people.

if there's one thing this forum likes it's a good ol' debate

best? odin m12, the one bit of kit that could spoil a gameday merely by its absence. although if we're limiting it to guns then it'd be a tie between the WE makarov and the jg aksu, both might have had their foibles (makarov didn't like the cold and the jg was a bit lacking in the externals department) but damn if they weren't decent bb lobbers and fun to actually use. worst? hmm, tie between the cybergun 1911 and the we luger. the 1911 couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, assuming you managed to get it to work long enough to fire more than a couple of rounds that is, the luger at least worked, for a couple of rounds if the weather was nice, and at least shot in a straight line, for about 20 feet thanks to no hop....