Adolf Hamster

you could put the battery in through the trunnion if it were narrow enough, the ones i use are just small enough to even fit so i have to pull the upper handguard, feed the wires through the trunnion, set the battery above the barrel and pop the upper handguard back on. essentially it's a normal enough gas tube with the bottom half cut open so you can get a bit more space between the upper handguard and the barrel. i'm not sure how the bolt aksu's do it, afaik the recoil mech on those is much more substantial so i can only assume the gas tube is the only free space they have for a battery as well.

yep, it'll boil down to how many uk folks stop using TG over this, and how hard that hits their sales. i presume they do trade all over europe so maybe the uk just isn't enough market for them to make the switch?

my jg aksu seems intentionally setup, it's the "recoil" model which means they presumably didn't want to shred the battery with the machinations of the mockl bolt cycling, indeed the gas tube is cut out specifically to allow more space. i still use it as the 800mah 11.1v's i have sit nice and snug, although the recoil mech has long been disabled. that's still pretty much the case, at least for the non-recoil models i've worked on. it's convenient if you can stuff the end into the gas tube especially if you have a sizable mosfet to deal with. you can approach it either way, a decent 7.4 with the right motor/gear combo can be plenty snappy enough. really depends which approach you'd rather take.

reckon the reason you can't understand it is because you're assuming that thinking is involved.... to be a fly on that wall. i mean i can only assume that the glue worked exactly as intended- it glued things together. but ofc america is the place that brought us the "caution- hot" label on coffee cups, i mean if it ain't feckin hot it's not feckin coffee (coffee being interchangable with tea in that statement)

it'll vary on the manufacturer, but the railed tubes seem to have a smaller inner diameter to the standard. for sure the slim-type 7.4v's fit but not so sure on the 11.1v slim variants. you may end up having to go under the top cover instead which is a tad less convenient for external mosfets.

really? god that makes you despair for humanity.....

wait, wut!?

i think some commendation for the police should be given here, as tackle edit: druid mentioned that kind of situation could have escalated to a lethal response and i can only assume it was either remarkable observation or bravery on the part of the officer to have resolved this in a way that left everyone breathing. i don't know what was going on inside this guys head, was he off the rails? was he trying to get shot 'murca style? or some convoluted political statement? regardless congrats to the police involved for keeping a cool head and denying the media a clickbait title

yep, it was twiddling the regulator before it was cool

ahh systema, the OG hpa quick adjusting fps wanker

by the sounds of it you've done plenty of plinking, so i'll save the usual spiel about being careful with gun-shaped-objects where joe public might catch a glimpse and freak out. on that kind of budget you're gonna probably be looking at one of the lower end cyma's/jg's/specnas, remember to factor in the cost of a battery and a charger. it'll have to come 2-toned as well (yes the irony that an air rifle doesn't need this isn't lost on the airsoft community). most likely gonna be a plastic receiver, but as it's not going to be getting the rough and tumble of an airsoft game should be plenty serviceable (people do skirmish with guns like this and unless you fall on it/drop it on concrete they're fine). reliability wise you should be grand, just don't run it on a heavy battery and you'll see thousands of rounds no problem (folks can put down thousands of rounds per day in airsoft), a good barrel clean will go a long way (use a plastic rod with a cloth not a brush- it'll mess up the brass barrel and rubber hop). accuracy wise it wont be what you're used to, certainly you'll have no problem popping coke tins at 10m but you're not gonna be pulling anywhere near the groups a proper air rifle can do. possibly as a starter, why not try finding a local site and giving airsoft a go? you can rent a gat and see if you like it, it's quite fun when the target is allowed to shoot back at the very least it'll give you a flavour of what you can expect an airsoft pew to be capable of.

it's a tricky one, on the one hand i do agree that if you're gonna trigger's broom an aeg, might as well start with a cheaper platform. however the exception to that is when the base platform offers something that isn't really plausible for a cheaper gat, in the tm recoils case it's the other features such as, well, the recoil, that make it a desirable starter (whether or not you care about recoil is a different matter) same as how an e&l ak sure as shit looks a lot prettier and has stronger external components than a cyma. which if you have my crippling addiction to blued steel is something worth paying for. i completely agree with this *looks at his desk covered in unskirmished e&l guts and aftermarket parts* do as i say not as i do

the same reason anyone does anything in this hobby- because they want to. you can play with a goddamn nerf gun and get kills, so why are we even bothering with expensive cyma's? there are folks who upgrade their guns because they think they need to do so to compete, there are folks who upgrade because they enjoy the process (like me), and there are folks like yourself and tackle who would rather save the money and gain their edge by other means such as fieldcraft or agility. none of these approaches are right, but none of them are wrong either, and the fact that this is a hobby that can cater to such a variety of tastes and pockets is a good thing

have you tried anything more potent than that? i'd be seriously worried about how much strength will be lost by adding a bunch of holes.

nah mate, it's hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper

for me it's ky airsoft, had to dispute with them after they didn't ship backorder items despite the whole range of said items being back in stock on their site. they kept trying to get me to cancel the dispute (which i didn't do as paypal are very specific about no second tries) ended up having to go to paypal. sadly i fear i may now be on their blacklist yeah, that was the sentiment i was trying to get at, this isn't TG's fault further than their choice of courier, but i reckon they're gonna be more responsive to the mass of complaints than UPS will given the relative size of the companies.

it is a fair point, i've never had to deal with tg's customer service mostly due to assuming any foreign retailer to be a case of returns not being a practical option. maybe "reasonably popular" would be a better term?

i'm kinda hopeful that if people start having to pull paypal disputes with TG it'll maybe persuade them to offer another carrier. whilst i don't like a reasonably decent retailer to have to take a hit like that it may well be the only way.

as above, it's incredibly daunting the first time, and somehow even more daunting the second, but airsoft is a great hobby for being able to just randomly show up unless you're renting in which case you're gonna want to book ahead). if you haven't anyone to drag along then honestly the only advice is to channel your inner shia labeouf and just do it

fair enough, i'm guessing the tag shells don't have any fancy shenanigans for resetting them then. any particular look you're going for or just straight functionality?

that really blew out of proportion, remember coming back seeing mack's had grown by half a dozen pages being like "wtf did i start!?" haven't a clue, never had a gbb with auto.

i feel like i need to ask the obvious question here, but how are you planning on that fitting in a launcher?

fair point, been a while since we've had one of those debates. they're always fun

is it bad that i kinda want it to happen now because the irony of us talking about it will be so much more delicious