Adolf Hamster

Best of luck with it, hopefully my paranoid side is wrong, that things too shiny to not be on the field.

I tried. It goes nowhere

I also see the arrow. Do we follow it?

It's a tricky issue. It is entirely possible this could be some very simple tweak required. I've seen folk get epic deals on "boneyard" guns that ended up a 10s job with a clearing rod to sort. Likewise there could be a broken part (especially if its a proprietary part) that will be a bastard to replace/fix. If there was some info as to what the problem is (low fps, poor/no feeding, inconsistent hop, etc) then it'd make deciding which is which a lot easier.

that's a lot o' schmeckles for something with an unknown problem. sure if it's something simple to fix then it ain't so bad but for all the info given this thing could be wrecked inside.

That's only going to make his problem worse? Edit: ahh yes i see, shorten them so he can wear shorts instead, side bonus of being a smaller target to hit.

that'd be the first place i'd look. could be a rougher finish/size difference making it bind up in the mag a bit more. used to have no end of trouble with feeding until realising the problem was the ammo, switched to geoffs and never had a problem since. whilst this can be done, it's oh so very easy to fuck it up and end up with a rough/poorly sealing surface on the feedlip. i prefer just changing rubbers to something like the PDI W-hold with standard nub, not as good as the maple leaf for the heavy stuff but can handle up to the .32g range well enough.

there's russianarmyshop? similar kind of range as grey shop. not ordered clothes from there but i think a few mates have picked up the occasional bit from there.

mine wasn't that bad. if you had a freshly filled magazine, a nice warm day, then at least 3 or 4 bb's would come out of the barrel before it ran out of gas.....

there's not really a lot to write about other than "it's bad in every measurable way"

gold?

that's slightly better than the one i came up with, which i didn't post in case it went down like a lead balloon...... i mean at least it's green?

suppose that's a fair point, if you don't actively go looking for it then much less likely to encounter it. i guess it's a double edged sword. i do agree with the issue of doing the whole "loadout posting" thing, you're always gonna find a few people who love it, a few people who hate it, and most folk either ambivalent or who simply can't be bothered to comment. certainly expecting (or even worse insisting) on getting nothing but positive feedback on a loadout post on the internet is somewhat naive. of course there's criticism that's constructive, and criticism that's a put-down, and that can be a tricky line as to wether the person has made a mistake but who would want to rectify it if you told them versus someone who took a shortcut because they're happy with close enough. not always easy to tell either.

i don't think there are many locations in the uk where that would be an effective set of colours

a fair point, the distinction i thinking of was between people who absolutely must have the correct loadout for themselves, and the type to "look down" on others for being insufficiently funded/motivated to match their levels of dedication to loadout correctness. granted crye baby/stitch counter is a derogatory term, but i'm not sure what other term would conveniently describe the personalities i'm trying to refer to.

i have heard of this being a thing, the russian version of the crye babies/stitch counters. never really encountered them but they sound like not my kind of people. absolutely, the only person who needs to think it's cool is you. i'm sure i'd drive the aforementioned red alliance nuts off the walls with a 1p63 and repro 2dp strapped to what's almost certainly the "wrong" rifle, with a grey shop smersh and digi flora. meanwhile most normal people see someone in some russian shit carrying an ak with some russian abomination of an optic strapped to the top.

not like you have ammo anyway..... "the first man gets the rifle....." but seriously the wheel on the mag has just the right combo of stiff and sharp to shred the skin from your fingers after a days play.

It looks (supreficially) very similar to the pps mosin only with a turned down bolt handle. The pps version is a pretty good shooter tbh, although externals aren't as tough as would be ideal, for example the front sight mounting isnt the strongest. The magazine works ok, although it'll strip the skin from your fingers winding it open to refill and good luck fixing it if the string goes. Assuming the bo version is the same then might be worth a punt, its a pretty fun rifle although you do gotta be in the "airsoft hard mode" mindset when using it.

i'm assuming your goal here is improved range/accuracy? as a general rule the path to improving things in this regard goes something like: clean the barrel (and keep it clean), the little plastic rod a lot of guns come with and a shred of microfibre is good for this, you can also use cigarette filter tips. you wanna be doing this on the regular (read: after/before each game). use good quality ammo, as heavy as your wallet can take for the amount you shoot. generally for an "assault" role outdoors i tend to like the .3g range as a balance between cost and performance. if you're indoors (ie not using the range) then this isn't needed. change of hop rubber, there's a bunch of options out there but my general preference tends to be the maple leaf macaron+omega nub combo for most guns or the PDI W-Hop+standard nub combo for the guns that are fussy about feed lip length. air seal air seal air seal, you want every last molecule of air the piston scoops up to be going down the barrel after the bb and nowhere else, this requires disassembly of the gearbox and potentially swapping parts/more involved tech work. energy, you want to be sure the air seal is good first (this can be measured by how much chrono readings vary/vertical shot dispersion) but make sure it's reasonably close to the site limit, a few fps under isn't going to mean anything but a 0.6j gun on a 1.1j field is gonna struggle. a good quality barrel, there are debates about bore diameter (tight versus wide) but these imo are secondary to overall quality (the consistency of the bore, the inner surface finish, straightness etc), simplest option is to keep to the stock length, on aeg's making a big change in barrel length will mess with the voluming which will be counter productive unless you adjust the volume to suit. that's in ascending order of difficulty/cost for the amount of improvement can be netted. to answer your question more directly, for a uk based supplier i'd be looking at ak2m4, they do the maple leaf combo mentioned for the hop, and their ZCI 6.02 stainless barrels are really good performance for the money. hop rubber: https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/internal-parts/hop-up-buckings-nubs/maple-leaf-macaron-60-aeg nub (there are aftermarket versions on the site, but i've not tried them): https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/internal-parts/hop-up-buckings-nubs/maple-leaf-omega-nub barrel (i'm roughly guessing the length, measure your existing one to be sure): https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/internal-parts/inner-barrels/zci-inner-barrel-363mm

cat's expression says it all.....

even admits to expecting degraded performance having been sat in storage.......

it saddens me to see men who when presented with an opportunity to set fire to something seek an alternate option. why would you not want to unleash something so pure, so beautiful upon the world?

and as we all know, 2-tone adds value because nobody with a defence would want to remove it.....

you could drop a fusion engine in there. but this is not what's happened here.....

sure you got that calculation right? 0.86g at 120m/s is equivalent to an 0.2g going at 816fps? for en166: there's f marking for low velocity, which is 0.86j there's the b marking for medium velocity which is 6.19j there's the a marking for high velocity at 15.5j only the f marking should be of concern, but needless to say the gaps between them are massive, so whilst eyepro that can stop say 4j would be fine for uk fields it'd still only be f marked, of course it's not really worth rolling those dice.