Airsoft-Ed

My first suggestion would be to just send it back under warranty, if you get another one then it might not have the same issues and it'll save you having to do anything yourself, so you might as well try that if it's open to you. As for sorting the issues out yourself, if you mean those spring loaded brass nubs that connect the circuit across the upper and lower receiver, just bend them. If they don't line up with their contacts right then no amount of taking them to bits and lubing them is going to change anything. Just get some pliers and flex them up a bit so that they meet when the gun's together. Their only purpose is to complete the circuit, and they're just bits of metal, so it's not like bending them is going to have any negative effects. As for the hop sending everything high, I had the same problem with mine when I first got it. Even with hop off it would still send everything skyward ridiculously. I fixed mine by taking the stock nub out, because it's massive, and making a smaller one using a biro ink tube - take a biro/ball point pen to bits and just fashion a new nub out of the ink tube, make sure you cut it to the right length because you want it to fit the nub space properly otherwise you'll get a lot of left/right deviation. Alternately you can just buy a new nub, I ended up using a Systema rubber and a Big Out H Nub in the end, the Nubs are moronically expensive for what they are, but I had good results from it. I also eventually got a metal hop arm, someone listed one for sale on the forums. I don't know where he got it from, it might've been custom made, but that eliminates the flexing issue caused by the wheel only acting on one side of the hop arm.

Have you seen the APS CAM870MCS? That is for all intents and purposes the same as a real shotgun. You pour a handful of BBs into the shell, charge it with gas, then put a lid on it to stop the BBs falling out. At least with the grenade launcher shells, I'm pretty sure the pin stays pressed in until you prime it for another shot, it's only a very simple mechanism, and there's no point in not using all the gas in one go, so there's no reason for it to hit and release. I'd imagine it's the same story for the APS shells, but I've not had any hands on with one to know.

George has bought a couple of sets of the timed explosive ones, Ian. He bought a 203 specifically for them, we've used them at Skirmish and at CQB. I've also seen them used in videos at a Brit Tac event at Copehill, so there doesn't seem to be any issues buying and using them.

I think I wrote this one before the massive one lol, I'd forgotten all about it until I saw your comment bump it to the top of the section.

I don't know if airsoft red dot sights would offer the precision required for a clean kill at anything beyond about 10m, especially if your target is something as small as a rabbit. It's hard to really say how much precision they offer because I've only ever used them on airsoft guns, which are obviously significantly less accurate than air rifles. They will hold their zero fine on an air rifle though, gas blowback airsoft guns have far more recoil than any UK legal air rifle. More than 22LR rifles in a lot of cases. The variable zoom DR sights mentioned above would be a bad idea based on what I've heard though, they're pretty crap at holding their zero between 4 and 1x mag. The zero points might even be different entirely, not sure. I'm assuming you've got a scope mounted already, since you say you want a red dot for closer targets? Have you looked into Docter or RMR micro red dots? They're often mounted on top of scopes, or canted off the barrel at a 45° angle, you could have your rifle scope and red dot mounted simultaneously. Edit: Just realised you actually said you wanted to mount it on a scope haha, fail. Micro red dots ought to suit you down to the ground in that case. Search for RMR or Docter sights, Patrol Base had a small selection last time I was in there, their website might be a good starting point.

Bullpup means the action is behind the trigger, and I always took the action as being the bolt and breach, which is pretty much always level with the trigger, rather than behind it. So there! I know it's a joke thread, but still... It's wrong!

It's pretty difficult because bullet speeds are ridiculously unrealistic, but picking off headshots once people stop moving, and being a sneaky bastard is always fun.

Try putting the battery in the other way around. I thought mine was fucked as well but the way the battery space was geared it made you think you're putting it in the right way around when actually the polarity is backwards. Does it get hot? 'Cos if it does, that's definitely the issue.

The best I've ever seen on a standard gas mag was about 70 shots, in the height of summer, on my WE Glock when it was brand new. But it's very dependant on the efficiency of the system, the weight of the slide, the size of the mags (bigger = more gas) and of course the temperature. I don't carry gas into games with me, so I'll always just top the gas fill up when I reload the magazine with ammo. To me it doesn't matter what the gas economy is like, so long as it works when I want it to, and it can fire all the shots I load it with.

It's pretty much an aspect of the design that the ejection port cover will sometimes come to rest at the rear, as the blowback is achieved by clamping it directly to the piston. If you fire on auto it'll probably stop somewhere in the middle more often than fully closed. The charging handle more than likely has no functional purpose so I don't see why it'd matter. If it doesn't sound any different when you shoot it, then nothing bad will be happening. It'd be obvious if something was going wrong.

Foam filled silencers are a waste on a GBB, all the noise comes from the action cycling and not the muzzle, so you might as well get an extended inner barrel.

Also, in the US it's probably not uncommon for you to have to drive what we would consider ridiculously far to get to a game site, purely because the US is enormous and everything will be a lot more spaced out. At least I'm guessing that's the case? How far do you go to get to your events? In the UK most people can be at a site in the space of anything from 10 minutes, to about 45 minutes, almost entirely regardless of where they are. There's probably something like a thousand skirmish sites across the UK, but the country is barely 1000 miles long. Organisation is unnecessary. We can guarantee there'll be people at any open site running an event on that day. Also, when organisation is necessary, it won't be done on a forum, it'll be done on Facebook, or with a booking page on the site operator's website.

Biggest group I'm on has about 3k members last time I checked, I think this forum's somewhere around the 10k mark at the minute, not looked for a while.

I think what you have to realise is that this forum is for the whole of the UK, not just a bit of it. There are a lot of Facebook groups for regions within the UK, but I don't think there are any forums, because the regions are too small for them to be worth making a forum for, so Facebook has filled in a lot of gaps. I imagine in the US it's different because the scale of the place is significantly more massive. I bet there are states as big as the UK. But also, aside from it being a scale issue. Why would we want to draw traffic away from the forum and to Facebook? If there was a Facebook group instead, it'd be easier for everyone to just do that. Might as well get the hammer and nails out ready if you're going to set the coffin open like that.

This might be of some use to you, perhaps? Saw it the other day, just went back to find it.

Yeah they don't make CO2 long mags. I've heard from a few people that long mags are just generally worse overall, the weight of them and the fact they extend out of the mag well so far makes them move around, so the gas seal isn't great, makes them pretty inefficient, especially on full auto. Surprised at your negative experiences with green gas mags though, I've got 5 and I've never had a single issue with any of them, 3 of them are more than 2 years old. The CO2 mags by comparison are bloody awful, shit screw caps, prone to leaks, harder to repair, harder to source spare parts, more expensive, I'm fairly sure they're the reason my Gen4 nozzle snapped in half too. Green gas all the way. ...Well, propane.

Might sound obvious, but did you check the barrel for jams? The only time I've ever stripped pistons to the same extent as that, it turned out the barrel was jammed, so the air blockage just caused the piston to get stuck at the rear because the air couldn't escape fast enough, and then the gears just sawed it to shit.

No optic looks right on a classic AK, because the lack of any optics is what makes it look "classic" lol. I think 47s just look wrong with any attachments, unless you're going to clearly modernise it with rails and everything. 74s you can get away with basic stuff added along with classic style, wood furniture, but Russian optics only. Kobras, PK-As, PSOs at a push, perhaps.

The new Slash album, with Myles Kennedy. Goddamn addicted to it.

Dry firing is fine in gas guns, it's only bad in AEGs or springers because the presence of a BB slows the piston travel, without a BB there the piston head will slap into the cylinder head with a ridiculous amount of force and could eventually cause damage, or break the gun entirely. In a gas gun the mechanism relies on the amount of gas travelling backwards to reset itself, the amount going forward is of no consequence and won't change anything whether there's ammo loaded or not.

Fines just fucking piss me off in general. I wouldn't mind as much, if they were actually intended as deterrents, but they're clearly just there as a revenue stream. I once got fined £50 for littering; when the letter came through, it said they'd asked me to pick it up before issuing the fine, which they never did, and it was still there 2 weeks later. So not only did they fine me for littering and lie about the details of it, but they didn't even pick up the litter themselves. So yeah, fining people is CLEARLY about cleaning up the look of the place, and not just pocketing £50 off 15 year olds, isn't it? Cunts. Turns out it was illegal for them to even approach and issue an on the spot fine to a minor, but they didn't include that in their report either. I was and always will be willing to argue the toss against any fine if it's clearly just there to provide added revenue, until they drop the charges. It's total bollocks that they're allowed to get away with it. D'you know that the people whose job it is to hand out fines are actually given quotas to meet? So they're going to actively go out of their way to give people fines, just to save their own job! I think they ought to reinstate state executions for whatever dickhead thought up that genius idea.