[Ares/Star L85 UGL]

Bump, I’ve got one to sell if anyone’s interested 

On 19/04/2020 at 22:12, Dandan said:

@Alexharris246 have u still got it mate got cash waiting if u have mate 

Don’t know if you got one but I have one available

[What are you listening to?]

Currently creaming myself over Tremonti's new single:

[What are you driving?]

Usually play at the Stan, or Tac House Spartan and both those sites are okay. That said I am not afraid of parking it and walking a bit further to save the (already battered) splitter!

Bit late but those are my regular haunts too =]

[Both eyes open optics.]

I can see that, your way works for you, my way works for me.

 

But 1 eye for 1x sights is objectively wrong.

Oh yeah no argument there.

[Both eyes open optics.]

spending an hour lying behind a .308 with your eye shut gets tedious, keeping them open makes no difference, is more comfy and thus a better shooting position

When l used to shoot air rifles a lot l used to find that having one eye zoomed in at around 5x power where the other one was at 1x would severely screw up my eyes after a while.

 

l always close an eye when using magnified optics so that l don't have each eye at a different zoom level because it hurts my brain trying to adjust for it lol.

[Gun picture thread]

Got myself a WE MP5 Apache. Traded for my SCAR.

Mechanical GBBR burst trigger is awesome.

[WE Glock 17 problem]

Only reason it ought to get caught is if the barrel pivoted down slightly as there's nothing else to get caught.

So maybe try and get the ejection port section lined up right again? Pen up the barrel and lever it maybe?

Just don't stop waggling it about. Something's got to give eventually and there's nothing you can really damage.

[What are you driving?]

l finally have my own transport!

[Zero One and their Consistently Dubious Business Pratices]

l've always avoided Z1 just because l can't bare how they run their forums.

But since the last general election when they told their entire Fb audience to vote one way because the other would ban airsoft - total BS of course - l feel they've lost even more of their non-existent credibility.

A goddamn airsoft shop employing political scare tactics ffs? Nope. None of my money for you.

Don't forget how much of a money grab the NAE is too.

[Best MP5 AEGs on the market?]

G&G all the way

[we g17]

lt's the follower in the mag that catches the tab to hold the slide so is there any damage to that?

[The 'What have you just bought' Thread]

 

Are you going to spray it tan like the rest of the rifle?

Yah.

 

Though not until it's all together on the rifle.

[The 'What have you just bought' Thread]

Some guy was selling it on Fb with an Ares rifle as a set for a measly three hundred or so.

l told him if he was willing to split the UGL l'd have his arm off for it - he PM'd me - and the rest is history lol.

lt's in near new condition safety is a bit loose but l won't carry it around loaded anyway.

Planning to use it exclusively with TAG rounds ofc.

[The 'What have you just bought' Thread]

Got it about a fortnight ago at this point - but thought l'd post it here anyway.

lt's not actually attached yet as l'm waiting on a mount adaptor but it's just a matter of time...

Going to be spraying it to match the rest of the rifle once it's properly on there too.

[Go pro; are they that good?]

I've always used Contours instead, they're much cheaper, better battery life, better sound quality, simpler design and a little less imposing. They look like a bit of airsoft equipment rather than a big square camera.

GoPros still win on picture clarity and do use better camera sensors for higher resolution images and shit, but they're still both capable of full HD video at more than a good enough quality for airsoft videos.

You can pick up Contour ROAMs online for next to nothing second hand, and there's a bunch of different mounts for them too.

[Gun picture thread]

I think this is the first time I've been back on the forums in literally months. =[

I've more or less dropped the hobby whilst I sort my finances out, sort a car out, and sort out a house. It's a 3 year plan but hopefully it won't take that long.
Despite not playing for months, I am still buying stuff though, because y'know, nothing slows down your life plan like spending the money you're meant to be saving on new shiny gun stuff...

Most recent purchase is an Elcan Spectre DR and a 20mm conversion mount for my L85.

I must admit, I always thought I preferred the ACOG on L85s because it takes a funky canilever mount to get it on there, but the Spectre is definitely growing on me. Mainly because, in the airsoft world at least, they're just infinitely better optics. This thing trumps my ACOG on literally every front apart from maybe size (because it's massive) and weight (because it might as well be a brick).

Better glass quality making the clarity much more crisp, no more foggy view as per my ACOG. The reticle is beautifully clear, not lop sided, and doesn't blur against the target. It's also illumated with 12 levels of brightness across two colours, and the eye relief is fantastic - no more ramming my eyeball into the rear lens to see anything.

It also has the bonus feature, well sort of, that if you configure the red dot on top to zero to the main optic, then every time you rezero the main optic, you simultaneously zero the red dot as well. Due to it being slaved to it; when you adjust the main sight, it's the sight that moves on its mount, rather than the internals of the sight moving within the body, and since the red dot just sits on top, if you move the main optic, you're also moving the red dot, so they stay zeroed to the same point. Win win.

 

Though I have yet to field it, so that may mean knocking it causes it to lose zero... In which case I'll be very annoyed and counting that as more of a fail than a win, but for now it seems a handy feature. Certainly makes it easier to switch between multiple rifles as the time spent reconfiguring will be halved.

But anyway, pictures:

[Better name than Airsoft.]

In Hong Kong they call it "Wargames"

"Yeah I'm doing wargames this weekend" etc etc.

[Very basic Hop Up tutorial for Snipers -]

As someone who's sat in front of a camera and filmed things like this in one take, it's pretty hard to not make any slips.

You often don't notice at the time either because you're in a flow as if you were talking to someone and without them shooting questions at you in person, you just have to sort of imagine them and factor them in as you go. Which can cause contradictions and slip ups as you sort of talk with yourself in your head, whilst talking.

It's hard.

I don't think this is actually that bad, the mechanism is well presented and explained and the visuals make up for a lot of the slip ups. The whiteboard style is pretty good I think.

[DMR's]

Why do people have this belief that TM internals are better? They don't spend more on the internals, they don't spend a great deal, full stop.

The only reason they last so long is because the lighter weight of the moving parts puts a lot less stress on everything. You put TM parts in a WE or a SA and they'll break at the same rate the WE or SA parts will. (I've done it) They're not better, they're just under less stress.

With a TM you get longevity over all else, they aren't better for range or accuracy, I really don't understand where that myth comes from - TM fanboyism no doubt.

TM is better for cold weather performance and gas efficiency, which again is just due to the lighter parts, but in my opinion you miss out on the satisfaction of metal on metal noises and heavier recoil. Plus it just feels like a bit of a con to buy a plastic gun that feels like a £5 springer but spend more on it than I would on something that feels a lot better. TM's plastics are horrible.

I like taking things to bits and fiddling with them, so if you're like me, I'd advise getting a cheaper, better feeling, metal pistol, learning how it works and upgrading parts to steel as they fail. The WE also has CO2 mags available for winter use so the TM working better in the cold becomes a moot point.

You can also make the WE just as snappy, if not more so, by using a stronger recoil spring and CO2 more generally. Though the snappiness of the recoil is again, in my opinion at least, a moot point, because even when it's less snappy than a TM, it still cycles faster than you can fire it.

[quick question for G17 owners]

Full auto in a pistol is a gimmick and having the fire selector mech present complicates the trigger box and causes parts to wear faster.

So personally l think it makes more sense to get the G17 because no auto means it'll last longer and have a slightly simpler mechanism.

[Bullpups and no brains :D]

You are probably one of the most hands-on people to ever join the forums lol.

lt's great not having to spoon feed people.

l welcome you with open arms haha.

[Gun picture thread]

And a few more for good measure.

Trying to pick a thumbnail to use for my review video.

[Gun picture thread]

[This isnt homophobic, but its a question about it]

l have a handful of gay friends as well as a bi girlfriend and all of them call stuff gay as much as l do lol.

l see it as just a word with multiple meanings. Sort of similar to how nob can be either penis or a door handle. lf l call someone gay l don't intend for them to read it as being insulted via their sexuality. Because what's insulting about being gay? Nothing!

But more that gay is just another standard insult word as per stupid or lame for example.

[RRRRAAANNNGGGGEEEEE]

The range on the G&G m14's is absoulutely absurd lol. If the Cyma doesn't work out get one of those.

Yup, I can attest to this as well. I had the Veteran wood version, it was kicking about 390fps out of the box. I fitted a Madbull 6.03 and ran .30s and I'm not joking when I say I don't think I missed all day.

 

It's a shame I had it before starting the channel, would've made some epic videos. I only had a red dot on it, but if someone was unfortunate enough to end up with that reticle over them, they were gone with a single pull of the trigger. It was just moronic how far and how accurately it could shoot.