Nick G

I can honestly say I've not had any failures and the L119 A1 has had many thousands of BBs through it. Still on it's original nozzle. Does have RAtec parts in the trigger box , only fitted a couple of months ago, but tbf that was more about enjoying tinkering, the original parts were still working fine. It rarely gets used in full auto which may extend sear life. Both have Maple leaf rubbers and omega nubs fitted along with Crazy jet barrels and the A1 has an NPAS fitted. I've made up a long tool for adjusting the hop , but once set it rarely needs adjusting .

just to mirror everything Super64 says . Factor in cost of mags, I typically run 5 mags and a speed loader for a game and get over 2 BB fills to 1 gas fill. Develope yor playing style to suit carefull single shots and double taps , and it's very satisfying. My L119 A1 and A2 are both based on WE m4's so fundamentally the same platform as the m16 , and I can't fault them tbh. Fit an NPAS to get the power level down or semi lock it and run as a DMR . I always take an aeg to a game day as well as the GBBR's and the aeg never comes out of it's bag unless the temperature drops really low.

pretty much any WE inlet valve should work , I tend to get mine from KY airsoft and buy a few at a time.

I'm seeing about 0.8 j on mine with .30's (about 300 fps in old money) It's incrdibly consistant so I'm happy that it's pretty well sealed . Happily ranges out with aeg's and very accurate too by airsoft standards. So PB's 395 is optamistic unless mine , which came from PB, is a Japanese market one . Might have a restricter fitted or a weaker spring, I'll have a look when I open it up but not bothering to do that untill something breaks.

Can't remember what mine chrono'd at last time. I'll try and check it later.

From memory £60 which I felt was reasonable for the amount and quality of work.

Yes it is, along with real grips

Yep they can be swapped over, put the ring one on a mates to get it closer to his old service weapon.

I paid £299 for mine from Patrol base with mags at about £30 a go I deliberatly waited as I wasn't prepared to pay the £450 figures being asked by a couple of sites.

Absolute hoot using it like that. I run .30's in mine and am very impressed with the performance out of the box . 2 or 3 mags and a speed loader and you're good to go !

Most of the internals are vsr based. It's worth joining the S&T SMLE owners group on facebook. There are one or two on there that have pushed the power levels up. Most of us seem to use it as a combat rifle without having to worry about MED which is alot of fun.

Here you go, stop yer whinging ? ?

I'll get round to it eventually, the AK one does work well though ?

Our local site dmr and sniper have the same 30m med. That said dmr power limit is 1.9j so you can mix it with the snipers. Tested my GBBR L119 A2 'long' dmr build this evening at 1.76j on .40's , that'll do ?

And decent pic with the bayonet fitted . Father in laws old bayonet. They don't like it up 'em !

Real steel stock cap fitted to the 303. Brass would be nice , but think this unissued steel one is an improvement on the bling S&T one.

DO IT !! Mine is the Umarex version so a bit bigger than the TM, great gun , absolute hoot to use ?

Wook stock ? going Chewbacca atyle ? ?

Put a couple of mags through the MP7 to dial in the new holographic I got for it. It's about there I recon

Unless the OP isn't in the UK but playing somewhere with higher power limits

Maple leaf bits will see you right. Crazy jet barrel and hop rubber along with a hop wheel. Cant remember if I fitted an I key to mine or not. No real point in replacing the actual hop unit TBH .

Afraid not, I just sent Jim a load of pictures and left it to him. I do know he spent quite some time matching them as closely as he could.

Has anyone fitted an optic ? and if so what mount did you use ? A mate wants an optic on his, I'm quite happy with the irons on mine .

Ended up with a couple of black eyes after a pistol game , all very up close stuff in and around buildings, and got hit right on the eye brows on both sides ?

Ouch, glad it wasn't more serious and you are ok . We've all taken a flyer and done the 'protect the gun' thing at one time or another , it seems second nature ! Hopefully any damage to the rif's will be easily sorted.