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The black tape was good enough, and saves allot of effort. Wouldn't notice it and haven't thought about it since. Scope cover was more tricky, as most sellers are custom leather makers charging hundreds per piece, as they are targeting owners of the real deal. People who spent multiple thousands on a real No4T are not going to be worried about a few hundred for a scope cover. That was until i found i guy on eBay, selling these for £40. Lucky for you he's still around. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116230784081?itmmeta=01J2CDFY121MGFVYCMXW7K3CDR&hash=item1b0fe50451:g:GKkAAOSwcw1gnR6I

Yeah, that's totally out of the question. I'm not even going to entertain that, after the massive pain it was to get to me.

Paypals intervention is issuing a full refund, post a safe return of the gun to SWIT. Something which I’m not going to do, so I’ll probably just accept SWITs 60 dollar partial refund, and cut my losses on this. Could be allot worse, and lesson learned never to use them again, or order from outside the UK again.

Put in the dispute through PayPal. Got a personal email response from SWIT today, offering a 60 dollar refund, or a return (which I'm definitely not going to do). Not sure if i should accept the partial refund or just ignore them and see what PayPal does.

I did indeed. Good shout, thanks. If I don’t hear back from SWIT in the next few days, I’ll go through PayPal.

Update for 2024. Not recommended at all. Ordered one of the new VFC XM16E1 GBB rifles off them about 3 months ago, and only just received what is the wrong gun today..... The XM model was not available in the UK so i thought id give SWIT a try. Was massively cheaper than on UK sites (Yes i know imports would come) and they were running a discount sale on orders over a certain price, so i figured even with postage and potential imports it would be less than bought here, and might not even have a fee if lucky. I also ordered a handful of mags and was pleasantly surprised at the checkout to find that the sale was taking off 40 dollars from every single item in my basket, making each mag almost free. Great i thought, what could go wrong? Few days later, i get an email from them saying this was a website error and i was only entitled to a single 40 dollars off. Considering i had already paid, i asked if they would honor the price presented to me, but they only responded to that with an invoice for the rest, and that they would only send the gun, no mags if i didn't pay it. Annoying, but fair enough i thought, worth asking anyway. After this i had no update from them for about a month, when i emailed with no replay, so had to resort to messaging on FB, where they let me know, the gun was ready but they were still waiting on the mags to arrive. Few days after that i get the email that the gun is now shipped. Arrives in the UK a few days after that, but now has to go through customs.... Customs send me an invoice for a whopping £170 extra, then hear nothing from them for 2 months, apart from very unreliable UPS updates, and phone calls which went nowhere. Gun finally arrives today after all that hassle and time (Very beat up and ripped box, presumably by customs, but also no protection on it from Swit apart from the paper wrapping), only to open it and see that I've been sent the M16A1 not XM16E1, which i ordered..... Weirdly, the packaging clearly has "XM16E1" written on it in bold marker pen, so idk how they screwed that up, but I'm sure as heck not gonna send it back after the struggle it was to get here. You could say i won a little here as the M16 was about 50 dollars more then the XM, but i still would of preferred the XM. Fortunately i do have an AEG XM so its not the end of the world, but that's besides the point of their mess up. Will see what they have to say, but now I've tried it, i never want to order from outside the UK again. Its just not worth the potential problems, wait times, lack of proper communication and support, inability to easily send an item back, and in the end, I've paid more or less the same as i would for this from a UK site..... Lesson learned, and i would suggest the same for anyone considering it. Maybe i was really unlucky, but i still wouldn't risk it now. XM model clearly written on the packaging, while the M16 clearly inside.

Yes that's it. And its being knocked while I'm changing mags, so there is nothing in the gun to make it "bounce back".

During the mag change I may briefly duck into cover or go to the knee. It’s during this process the mag catch sometimes gets brushed and depressed, on its own during motion. Not always but I have noticed it enough times to bother me. And even if it doesn’t, it just feels far too weak for my taste when I depress it, almost as if nothing there holding it. My £200 CYMA M16 does this far better and even holds the mock bolt back when cocked. A £500 Marui couldn’t figure this out? This guy suggests (2:50 time stamp), to wrap some heat shrink tube inside the mags paddle system for the catch. Not sure how much that will help, but might give it a go.

Meaning it takes almost no effort to depress the catch after mag empty, and sometimes just goes by itself from a light brush on my gear or clothing. I know it’s not GBB, but I expected a bit more than that. I’m tempted just to disengage the whole system because of how useless it feels, unless I can add some resistance to it.

Love my NGRS M4 CQBR, but I find the bolt catch to be a bit of a weak point. It’s just too loose, and has no positive feedback when you engage it. It sometimes even depresses without me realising it after a mag change after brushing my gear. So any way to give it some tension here to make it feel a bit more functional and realistic?

Not sure the S&T is so much better regarded that the Ares, than it is preferred due to its much lower price. I own both and i must say that the Ares is one of the most realistic feeling and expertly finished airsoft replicas i own. If you want a high quality replica, you have to pay for it. And even that said, its very good value for money considering real No4 rifles and especially the No4T are in the thousands. I like the S&T allot, especially for its price (i got mine for £299) but it doesn't hold a candle to the finish of the Ares.

Just seen this. Was expecting S&T to put this out for some time. Interesting to see how it compares to the Ares No4.

From King Arms FB page. FAL and SLRs on the wall. Will this finally be the year? Probably not from experience, but who knows....

Yeah true, but now that I know, I’d rather do the maintenance myself tbh. Exactly my thoughts. What propane and adaptor do you use for this? Want to make sure I’m doing the right thing.

Agreed. This seems to be a common misconception, that o rings expand upon greasing/oiling, when in reality all that is doing is filling the gaps.

Watch the full vid above for gas mag maintenance. It’s pretty simple once you know what to do.

Exactly. And it really makes sense the more you think about it. Venting gas oil, all over the parts of your gun which don’t need it just seems stupid, when you can specifically lubricate/maintain the parts which do, and leave the gas just as a clean, dry, propellant.

Watch from 7:30 for why dry gas is better than silicone gas. The ultimate point is all the same, regardless of where it’s used, silicone is bad.

General consensus I'm seeing is that its bad. Spraying silicone all over the working parts of the gun, and most notably on the hop up and barrel assembly, is unwise, and will affect performance. Especially when all it takes is a quick grease on the parts that need it and you are good to go. Fyi the more reading i do the more i see how bad silicone oil in general is compared to grease. Watch this from 03:07 in for more on this.

Been getting a bit more into GBB lately, and only really just discovered that the silicone in most airsoft gas is terrible for your guns long term, and all you need to do is a bit of greasing every now and then on the internals instead. Problem is i cant seem to find any non silicone "dry" gas in the UK. Abbey is the only one i can see which doesn't use silicone, but they still put some lubricant in it. People seem conflicted on weather ASG is dry or not, and others say its terrible gas anyway. Swiss Arms 130 seems like the best option but this doesn't seem to be available anywhere in the UK. Other option is just to use pure propane with an adaptor, but I'm not too sure about that. Thoughts on this please, as I'm feeling a bit lost. Used Nuprol gas for years and never gave it a second thought, but this has opened up a can of worms in my head lol.