Airsoft-Ed

Yus! I shall bring the barrel, you can bring my socks lol. Might need to remind me on Saturday if you can make it. Stef ought to have a new Glock for me too

I'm sure they'll sort it if you remind them. Are you there this weekend for the free member's day?

I just ordered, from Fire-Support: A 590mm x 6.01mm TBB for my L86. A PDI VSR spring guide stopper for my hunk of sh... I mean, Ares sniper. It'll probably not fit, but I can always return it. 3000 Madbull .43g BBs 1000 Guarder .30g BBs 3700 Excel .20g BBs - because Fire Support are adamant that when they tested the L86 my local site are selling, it was 300+, but when I tested it with Blasters, it was 240fps... If ammo can account for 60+fps I will poo myself to death. But hey ho, I'll prove them wrong at my own expense if they won't believe me. From Landwarrior: A WE M&P with Tan lower frame, for a mate A mag for it Some gas for it A speedloader for it A hi-cap for his M4 Our next trip to the pub ought to be good haha.

You're right about what the hop up nub does Though "traffic" isn't a word that fits the sentence if you use the common definition. I can understand how you could have got traffic if you're using a translator though, as it can be a business term meaning to trade with, or swap. Swapping your hop up does make sense. Otherwise, it all makes sense, well done, I wish I could write French as well as you write English, it makes me feel quite ignorant at times. Anyway though, I'm thinking of buying the PDI version of the spring guide stopper from the last link, it's basically the same except £6 less lol. I just need to understand more about springs first. I want to buy as many things at once, from the same place, as possible, to save money on postage.

Inside my hop, I've added hop up nub from an AEG - the little rubber piece that pushes down on the rubber. One of these: http://www.airsoftgi.com/images/pic-034-bb-hop-up-rubber.jpg - the little black piece. I have to unscrew the hop adjuster screw until it's almost completely out of the gun to avoid shots flying high all the time, so it works well. Though I've only tried it with .3g bbs and I'm only shooting a little over 400fps. If you use heavier BBs, or run the gun at a higher fps, it might work differently. The piece I'm worried about is the spring guide stopper, one of these: http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4913/guide2nn0.jpg the red piece, it looks like this when it's out of the gun: http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/controlpanel/shoppics/DK-PT-SGS.JPG I would buy the one in the last link, but I'm not sure whether it will fit or not. I'll have to take the gun apart again and get some proper photos of it to compare them. Though it is meant for a VSR, and since the trigger sears fit, I imagine that piece will too.

If you can find the Ares upgrade kits, then feel free to try one, I can't find any in stock anywhere in the UK. I'd quite like to give the CO2 conversion kit a go as well. I was going to get a PDI barrel for it just the other day, but the shop were out of stock =[ As for the hop, with mine I have to have the screw so loose it's almost falling out, otherwise it over hops everything - I put a hop up nub from an AEG in the hop unit to give it better lift. It seems to have had the desired effect, and then some lol. Your English is very good by the way. And regarding the sears, I'm still struggling to find anything that I know will fit. The trigger sear from a VSR will fit, but the one it comes with seems pretty decent as well. The part I'm worried about breaking the most is the spring guide stopper. The piece you can pull out of the trigger mech to get the bolt out without taking the trigger mechanism off. But I'm not sure if any other ones fit.

I haven't yet, but I've been thinking about it, not looked into it though. I want a copy of the proper L115A3 suppressors, which are fooooookin' mahoosive.

Fire-Support emailed me to say that the barrel I wanted for my sniper was out of stock =[ despite their website saying they had 2 when I placed the order. So I've cancelled the whole lot now. Need to find somewhere else that sells all the same things, as I like to avoid having to pay for postage multiple times.

It's not an LM4, check the bolt.

No...? I wasn't, and never will be selling it. This is the review section... Just updated it again by the way, dated the update at the bottom of the initial post.

I wish I had your budget =[

Uni society hire guns or something?

I got a Madbull 590mm as well, Hugh.

I just bought new barrels for my sniper and L86, as well as some .43g Madbull ammo and a 500fps spring (which I hope fits). I WILL make this damn sniper feed properly! I just have to spend silly money on it first to motivate me lol.

I can't say with certainty how long the trigger will last, but it ought to hold up. The trigger mech looks the same as the HFC VSR 11 one, so you could always buy one of those and hope that the parts fit, so you can just keep swapping them out if they break.

I've only ever been abroad to Portugal and Australia, unless you count Dubai and Singapore whilst the plane was refuelling...? ANYWAY! I've managed to more or less fix mine, been playing around with it for about... 7 hours I think. Mags still aren't seating properly, but it's not filling the cylinder area with BBs and crushing them anymore, and it's actually firing as well. What I'd advise is NEVER slap the mags in, that's how I damaged my feeding tube (that holds the 25 bbs) and started all my annoying problems. The VSR parts that fit are the hop bucking and arm, pistons, springs and spring guides. The cylinder, cylinder head and trigger parts are proprietary as far as I know. We'll just have to wait for some trigger upgrades to come out, though PDI have made a cylinder set for it, but it's for 350fps set ups (so it's basically worthless). The barrel is an L96 cut though, so you can at least get a better barrel and hop for it. It's actually very consistent in terms of the fps right out of the box, so it might be alright with a new barrel and hop. Mine was appallingly bad out of the box though, got maybe 10 hits over 2 games with it, all from around 20m away and only 2 people took the hit. Then it broke. Now I've got an upgraded piston, spring and spring guide fitted it's actually doing alright, shooting with relative accuracy out to about 60 or so metres. Your measurements sound about right by the way, 25m - 120m sounds fair game with 550fps at your disposal. Also, sears are part of the trigger mech, they're basically the parts that lock the piston in the rear position and stop you being able to fully pull the bolt assembly out. Correct me if I'm wrong guys. I'm new to sniping too. As for worrying about the trigger, mine's still alright, there are signs of wear, but I don't think it's going to give out too soon. Maybe hold off ramping it up to 550 immediately though, I've got mine around 450 at the minute. I think that's everything you asked covered, let me know if I missed anything, or you need anything clarifying.

I knew one of you would say something like that. I can read you like a book. ...A shit book. For 3 year olds.

I'll suggest advertising a bit more at the next Skype meeting, Marcus. I think you're right, what UKAPU get up to really doesn't get put out there all that often. And I can see why that might be frustrating, Finius... Maybe a ritual sacrifice to the god of airsoft is in order.

Nice, I'm going to ring them next week to discuss my order and shiz, so by the end of next week I might have a shiney new AK on the way to me. And a hole in my wallet big enough to fall through... Meh!