Impulse

@Lozart Yep. £91 including tax was a good price point and it did everything I needed for it to do on the gun it's going on.

It's a real stinker when you get to the checkout and get suddenly slapped with our 20% tax and your order jumps up all of a sudden 😭

@pyromancer6 I've always wondered how much of that 20% actually gets paid to the UK government!

Depends on the areas and the game modes, much like Worthing. You can make it work in the right circumstances, but there is a lot of rapid advancing and cover in small areas that makes either a DMR or a 1J no MED a better option. They do also tend to play a trench game in the afternoon which is also going to give very limited opportunities for a bolt gun. 

I tend to find running the MP5 works better at that site for me. By all means take a boltie, but maybe plan to be able to swap out if you find it's not working.

I've been to Dogtag loads of times and every time they've started with the same hold the line, attack and defend game. Defenders get one life and then have to retreat to the next point, with the attackers respawn being immediately behind the players furthest at the back. It's a good way to get warmed up, as on either team you don't have far to go after being hit. As mentioned, it is fast paced and target rich. I had a friend use his Boltie and he had a great laugh when he dug in and let the attackers advance past him, before picking them off with a pistol. The afternoon trench game is great fun, but again you'll likely want something which will allow you to burn through a few more BB's.

Dogtags my regular, bolt actions are good fun there. Back when I had one I never had an issue with any part we played, theres always engagements over 30m. (obviously their cqb village is a bit tricky but they only tend to use it at the end of the day). Definite worth bringing a boltie but as above, bring something you can fling bbs with too!

If my own experience is anything to go by, the larger part of the journey was probably through the bowels of the Post Office system!

Japanese efficiency can be a wonderful thing. 

Imagine if you order in December 💀

Ah, I see.  Will keep that in mind for any future purchases from Evike.

Good luck with yours 👍

Its cos they insist in using UPS for deliveries....

UPS?  They can't be bothered to read the HS code / product description or I wonder if they even bother to scan, so they just make you sign a form to cover their own ass whenever there's a hint of airsoft.  RIF or no RIF.  

Don't mind so much but surely they could create an electronic form that's linked to your tracking number than you can fill out.

Offer to take a dozen shots, from your gun, at a measured 20m, to the groin and face.

This is a quite serious suggestion, by the way.  It's the standard that should be applied to any "But it's safe when I'm sending it against someone else!" argument.

@Rogerborg See, I wouldn't mind that; very much a fan of practicing what I preach, but I started airsoft in a time where we were full-auto-ing each other up close with slightly hot guns (because the chinese clone guns came out of the box too strong and nobody chrono'd back in the mid 00s). I'd even be happy to take it at 1.88J if it meant bringing the power up to that too, but that will never happen at my local site because I think one of the owners hates DMRs and is perfectly fine with literally nobody using one at Worthing.

Understandable, I hate them too. They're essentially unpolicable and super-exploitable if you trigger spam them.

That said, I have one, and don't exploit it, but if I ran a site, I'd just blanket ban them like a few sites already do.

It's not so bad. The enemy probably think it's a mouse 😂

For 'Nam, I'd stick with the internal 5 round as it's the most common in resources. Haven't seen any images of the m700 with a 10rnd, either but I also haven't looked much into it.

Stick with the 5 round mag.  The rifle has so many variants it's not easy to say when anything was introduced.  

That said, no bugger ever sees you in game, so use what you like!

Honestly, part of the reason for the consideration is because my HPA m14 has been a disappointment. It likes to jam itself open when I take the mag out and fire it to clear it which is a pain in the arse. I have a 2nd m14 and already had most of what I needed for a good build with it, so figured I may as well.

I still have some silicone material left over and a proper hole punch kit, if I knew the measurements I might be able to make something

The Cage have a fair few sizes from recollection or may be able to make a custom one but as above you'd probably need to know the size you want 

Plus, your boyfriend will really appreciate the extra definition.

I know what you like @Rogerborg 😚

I too have a gym membership, that's about as far as I've got though 🙂

Yeahhhhh, they look like so much fun and I'd totally tweak mine if I did get one (as I do with all my guns). DO I think it'll shoot as well as my HPA m21? No. Not in the slightest. It'll be loud, inconsistent and temperature dependent, but maaaaaaaaan would it be a fun gun to use.

But yeah, it's also a WE... I've seen a lot more WEs fail spectacularly than work spectacularly. 🤔

Playing devils advocate it’s the parts you’ll probably swap out anyway that have the potential to fail ? 🤔

plus just to stick an extra bit of ‘no pressure’ my mate had put a wooden stock on his and quite frankly I’d say it was as near to handling the real McCoy as you could get in this country 😍 

Thanks. Now I am adding it to the "I want one" list instead of the maybe list. I think if I was going to do a build I'd want a proper wooden stock for it. My HPA m21 I have already is silent and tactical, this build would be LOUD and PROUD!

Welcome to my world of guns. I think I only have a single gun that is stock and it's an AEP. Blame it on me doing sniping for 16 years where the mentality is "change all the things!"  

Though considering I do want to build 3 more upper receivers for it (CQBR, M16A4 and XM177), this is only the beginning! 

Outstanding ! 😁

If anyone has a spare MWS bolt carrier going, let me know 😉

That's the main reasoning behind metal bodied guns.

Though, as soon as you start viewing your blasters as tools rather than showpieces, you'll fuck off the M700 pretty quickly

Both have the same metal parts, but the m700 stock is far thicker and substantial than that of the VSR, which is pretty small. Also, the realistic operation just feels like a dream to shoot. Been in the hobby for about 16 years now and I am definitely a bit of a collector. Once this m700 is done, I'm revisiting the Tanaka m700 to make it shoot just as well because it's my rarest and most eye-catching piece.

Though I'm under no impression it will ever shoot as well or consistently as the VSR (unless I HPA tap the magazines and that would defeat half the reason I like it...), I will do everything in my power to make it shoot as well as possible. Very impressed with the Action Army hop unit for it.

My comment was mostly a tongue in cheek to all the "if it doesn't weight 45 kilogrammes it's not realistic" people

Ultimately, like it or lump it, if you’re going with Magpul furniture you’re already in the same dress as most of the other girls. The colour is somewhat a moot point. Have nothing against it, but if you have the desire to be a snowflake in any way, shape or form avoiding Magpul is probably wise. I’d just got with whatever your preference is, irrelevant of what you go with you know full well you’ll run into someone with something almost identical on your first day using it.

Ah, the "I don't need it, but by God, I'm not going to let someone else get it!" reasoning?

@Rogerborgin my defence, I've been waiting about 6 months or so. Then it was in stock and I knew I was going to be made redundant. Now I'm starting a new job and it's back in, so I figured I was allowed to treat myself  

We'll allow it.  None of us are on a rehearsal, so wring every moment of joy out of it.

@ImpulseWhere is this namsoft game? Not sure if I have anything appropriate for it (AKM and Chicom? :D). But I am looking for something a bit different to play this weekend.

Also interested to know

@Rogerborgwell, they let me in so I'd say rice-hats filmsim
 

@Asomodai It was at Gunman Eversley Alpha. There's another one June 11th - 12th which is only £55 for the whole weekend if you come along as VC/PAVN. While I could only do Saturday of this one (Worthing game day on Sunday and one of the guys in our group is staff at Worthing), I'll be doing the whole weekend for the one in June! https://filmsim.co.uk/event/vietnam-june22/

Sorry to hear but good choice 👍

@Lozart I say I'm built for comfort not speed 😁

@strykerles same, dude. Same.

@Impulse not sure what kind of colours you're looking at but I do have an OPS/UR-Tactical Advanced Modular Plate Carrier that I'm looking to move on. It's one of these https://www.ur-tactical.com/product/advanced-modular-plate-carrier-system/ in Kryptek Typhon. Fits me well, I just don't use it!

Drop me a message if you're interested.