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I'm not familiar with the internals, but I'm assuming they take unbridged GBB barrels? If so, the Stalker barrels are really good and do all manner of lengths, but they're also pretty pricey.

I already have 4 (1x Tanaka and 2x KJW m700s, and a PPS Kar98k), but I'm still jealous of anything cool in that regard If it's a pre-ban Tanaka I'd be very jealous. If it's a pre-ban Tanaka m24, I'd be superdupermegajealous. Waiting on Raresoft to finish his website so I can request either a pre or post ban Tanaka m24 there (as he didn't respond to my Whatsapp message as I assume he's busy with this + Christmas), and maybe an AICS in the future Gas bolt actions are great and I want to see pictures!

Good to know. I picked up three Jaeger ones a few weeks ago for my MWSs to replace the RA-Tech ones because they are just a complete faff

Especially when you get people who will set it up for heavy BBs. I think a lot of people will be setting it up for .3s or .32s, as most people who are willing to drop Wolverine prices on a gun are probably also people who are willing to use at least medium weight BBs. Speaking from experience on that at least, as I tend to tweak all my 1.1J guns for .32s (outside of a few exceptions like my m249 and my AEPs which are .25s) And then you'll get the really special people who will set it up for .48s. I expect this to happen because I've seen people with AAP wankergun HPA builds at 35rps or more, slinging .48s on full auto, so I fully expect some people to do the same with this.

I just got home from a really great game day at Worthing Airsoft today. Despite the rain (forecast said it would stop by 10am. It didn't...) the gameplay was really good and the vast majority of players were great as well (some notable exceptions, but we'll get to them ). There weren't that many people today, only about 40(ish?) instead of the usual 70 - 80, because of what I assume is a combination of people tightening their belts for the (expensive) festive period and also the crap weather. Anyway, once again I intended on using the MTW and once again it was sending BBs all over the place, not hopping consistently and just generally being a twat. Off to super5ives that goes because I'm at the end of my rag with it and our local site tech recommended them for MTW work, so I'll get that posted out this week because I just want it to work properly! At least I brought the co2 VSR again, now with a new Tridos TDC installed and it was absolutely amazing. 2.2J on the money and sailing BBs out amazingly well to the 75m and 85m targets, so I went with that and the mk23 again this week. They decided to do smaller games today due to the lower numbers. Usually we'd do one big game that would last all the way to lunch, but with the lower numbers they decided to run a few small games instead and I think it worked well. First two games were essentially a king of the hill game on one of the bases, with teams swapping ends after the first, and I stayed far away from it and covered the flank instead. I was a little late out to the first game as I was finishing up with setting up my kit after the brief as I wasn't entirely sure if I was playing today (first week back at the gym and did a leg workout on Friday so I am sore!), but I got into my usual spot, hit a few players, then the first game was over and we switched ends. Second round I pushed up very aggressively to the point where I was told to move back by one of the marshalls, as he didn't want us to get too close to where their spawn was which was fair enough; I couldn't see or shoot their spawn from where I was, but I would've basically cut off an entire flank by myself if I stayed, so I get why he did it . The issue for me was that this put me in a much weaker spot, but I made it work out. A wave of players pushed up without knowing I was there and so I took the two front ones out with my mk23 and then the rear one with the VSR as he was trying to come in to medic his friend; I'm really starting to like this mk23 again. They came back and I hit them again, sniping one of them out on the approach, but he got pulled behind the barricade and medic'd. This time they had a good idea where I was so I fell back a little. Got another with the mk23 and then some questionable hit calling from another as he then gave out a bit of full-auto to my face, so I called it and I headed off back to respawn. The marshall who was about was on it though and gave the player a poke about being too trigger happy with his full-auto up close, but these things happen. Didn't manage to do much more after this as I got back up into a position, but didn't get any targets and then it was game over. Our team lost both of these games quite handily, so for the third game they swapped a few players to make the teams more even, and it led to a fantastic third game, though first I had to head to the safe zone to get something dry to try and dry off my scope, as I couldn't see through it at this stage with all the rain making it wet! Third game was a "gold rush" game, where there was a marshall with a box of gold bars in the central Tower base, defended by a juggernaut with a rubber sword and a load of grenades, and one of the other marshalls in the top of the tower who would shoot anyone who looked a bit too aggressive. Each team had a case which we had to get into the Tower, so we could take one gold bar and take it back to our respawn (I think? I wasn't listening admittedly, because I knew I wasn't getting anywhere near that with my setup). I set up in my favourite spot that watches down the main path leading along the side of the Tower base, with my friend set up in his spot that watches the arc to my left, while I'm covering his right; with a field to my right, where we set up we had an absolutely deadly crossfire and I was rewarded with one of those "this is why I play sniper" games. I got so many people trying to push up that side, and my friend was racking them up to the other side, including the same three from the earlier game. Multiple times. This is where I think tempers started to fray as I noticed this group of players start to not call hits even more. I even had one of them crossing the path trying to medic his friend, so I popped a single mk23 shot into his chest that he flinched from, but kept going, then started medicing his friend so I gave him 2 or 3 shots to the side of the face. He called those ones. One of them at one point tried attacking over where my friend was and started getting irate saying he was shooting my friend in the face and he wasn't taking his hits, but where my friend was he is surrounded by metal, so it's very audible if BBs are landing near him. I didn't even hear his BBs landing near me and I was closer to where he was shooting, so I think it was a classic case of "my gun can shoot 70m!" when in reality it was dropping at about 50m. I spoke to the marshall about these players and he said he knew and he was on it, so the marshalls today were clearly on point with any iffy gameplay and I assume they had a word with the offending players. That was the last game for me and my friend though. We were both absolutely drenched, scopes were impossible to see through again so I had an early lunch and then took the afternoon trying to sort guns out (as that was what I was thinking about doing anyway with my soreness and the weather being shit). MTW was still being a shit, so I moved onto the SRS and got that all set up nicely with the Stalker stuff, but that took a while. No hop it was 2.1J. With hop it shot up to 2.5J. Then I extended the airbrake in a bit and it was 1.5J. Then I changed the weight and it was 1.3J. The I took the airbrake in and it was 2.4J. Basically, it took aaaaaaaaaaages of me tweaking it, but I finally got it between 2.1 - 2.2J so that's where I left it. By this time, the day was basically over, so we packed up there and now I need to get all my kit to dry! Anyway, fantastic day at Worthing. Great games, great players (mostly), great marshalls, so it was great even though the weather was awful

If Santa could source and bring me a pre-ban Tanaka m24, that would be lovely...

I'm using propane now, but if I was going to buy cans of green gas I'd go with the ASG ultrair (the brown cans).

I think I agree with that. First AI500 I went to was at the citadel in Dover and all that was happening in the indoor segments was a barrage of pyro. The tan team got a massive box of pyro for free as there was one that was capturable provided by the sponsor that was in a building near their respawn, so naturally they got it all, which meant that it was a weekend full of being pelted by pyro. If there were greens in a room, that room got a pyro posted through the door.

I would never go to any sort of CQB site without earpro. Earmor m31s are cheap and do the job really well, but my proper CQB kit uses a helmet with Earmor m32s attached.

I've just got the feed lips that came on the Nov gen3 mags on them, with the purple nineball routers because they're a better design than the yellow ones that come with the Nov mags. I imagine it might just need breaking in, as I have a friend with the ASG mk23 and he uses the ASG mags with hadron feed lips as well, because the clone mk23s can have issues with sticky triggers with standard clone feed lips. Fingers crossed yours just need a bit of use!

That sucks to hear. Which mk23 mags did you get? I've got the gen3 ones in my TM mk23 and they worked flawlessly and it made me love that pistol again since they're easy to maintain (no bloody pins!)

Very nicely done! Airsoft is a great hobby because it gets you out and about and it's pretty physically intensive. Even me playing like a sneaky sniper I still find myself burning a tonne of calories every airsoft game day! Also, being in shape makes airsoft more enjoyable, at least it does for me. Being able to do more is always nice.

Now I'm not saying that if they made this for the MWS that I'd do a 4th MWS build, but... If they did, I'd for sure do a 4th MWS build and make it a bolt action AR-15. Only VFC and GHK versions though

Thanks. I have 3, but my DMR is my favourite one. And yes, the flamingo bucking does work with the Stalker barrels, as that is the combination I have in my pistols and will be sticking in my MWSs and m700s once I get around to it (not a high priority during winter). In terms of hop up configuration that I have in mine, I have the 60d Flamingo rubber in the DMR and the 50d Flamingo in the non-DMRs, all with a Jaeger Precision titan nub and it works very well and hops heavy BBs just fine. The NPAS I have at the moment is the RA-Tech one, but I want to swap over to the Jaeger Precision one at some point as the RA-Tech ones are fiddly to adjust, though it does work just fine. I don't have Stalker barrels in mine yet, but will be getting those in the new year as the combination has been really good in my pistols and I've really gone off Crazy Jet barrels.

I've completely gone off crazy jet barrels and I tend to go with Stalker ones now. They're expensive, but I've just had fantastic experiences with them so far. I was chatting with a friend who had a relative who worked in engineering and he said that the engineering behind the crazy jet barrels is a thing, but it requires incredible precision when creating them that let's be honest... Maple Leaf probably doesn't have. Especially as I've heard stories of that end part being glued on, which is definitely not the precision needed! I've also heard that they're brass barrels with a silvery coating, so not even stainless steel. If I was doing the build, I'd get the Maple Leaf hop chamber and i-key, because they're pretty decent and I've had good results with one in my 1911s, a Stalker barrel and a 50d Flamingo hop rubber.

Only played half the day today at Worthing Airsoft since one of our group had to get home after lunch so we all packed up and headed off. I planned to use the MTW, but while the power was now super consistent again, the hop was still sending BBs all over the place and I foolishly didn't pack spare hop rubbers to swap out, so that went back into the bag. Had my SRS with me, as well as my co2 powered VSR so I went with that as the bolt pull is far nicer than the SRS and it was shooting beautifully. Chrono'd at 2.2J and while I theoretically could've upped it a tiny bit to 2.3J, I wasn't too bothered about it and so that was fine by me. Also decided to use my mk23 with the new Novritsch mags and those performed amazingly well too, which is great because they're much easier to maintain (screw in the baseplate, no pins!) and also they hold 32 BBs, so 5 of those would last me a good amount of time, even if it ended up being a pistol heavy day (it wasn't). I wanted to use my AEP mp7 as well, as I really don't like the mk23 for fast shooting, but I spent all yesterday celebrating a family birthday and didn't have time to charge the batteries, so I left it at home. Anyway, the morning was one big game, which I definitely prefer, and it was really quite an inventive game that I really liked. Basically, on one side of the site there was a marshall with a whiteboard which had a grid on it and the teams had to get to him and essentially play battleships. If your team guessed successfully and hit a battleship, you got a chunk of cash that could only be carried in a silver briefcase which your team only had one of (so you couldn't just get your whole team there and just farm guesses, it was one at a time!) they then had to take to a marshall on the other side of the site who was the banker to cash it in. I think the game worked really well, though the battleships board did have to move a bit as the position was too favoured for our team at first, then it was more favoured for their team after it moved, but that's a minor detail and it made the game closer, which is better anyway; nobody wants a one-sided affair and I'm glad they did move. The VSR was performing absolutely flawlessly and I was glad I decided to take all 6 of my mags out with me because through the morning I went through 5 of them and two full co2 bulbs, plus half of a third bulb as there were definitely a lot of targets where I set up. I wasn't as hidden as I normally am, instead opting to tuck inside a barricade, but making a tiny target (only the barrel, scope and a sliver of my head was poking out) meant that people who did see me generally couldn't touch me; some BBs were hammering into the barricade, but at that range they didn't have the accuracy to hit such a small target, and with how the VSR was shooting I didn't give them enough time to put enough rounds down to where one would eventually hit me. I got some cracking shots from there, but my favourite was about 60m where I threaded it through a tiny gap in a barricade to hit the guy behind it. Right at the end I was the only player remaining at that barricade and the blue team were pushing all around me, but I had one player on my team about 80m away giving me hand gestures as to where they were from my barricade and I managed to take them all out with the mk23, one by one. Usually I go into games and I am very happy to have a GBB pistol because I get into situations where a GBB is better, but today it was the opposite; if I was using my hi-capa, I would've been found and taken out pretty quickly (especially as one of the players who pushed up is a regular and I know she's a very good player and would've taken me out), but because it was a mk23 I managed to go undetected. One guy did come up behind me and had me dead to rights, but his safety was on! So I was very lucky there, but the rest was an amusing coordination with a player making hand signals to guide me to where they were all pushing. Especially since the new mags worked well, I might stick to my mk23 for a bit, but I do think I want to also use my AEP mp7 in a shoulder holster so I have a bit more firepower if needed. The only negative about the day was about a small minority of players, who I believe were dealt with by the marshalls though. Hit calling was pretty good today and I had no issues there, even with the rentals, but there were some proper HPA wankerguns out on the field today; full auto BB hoses with box mags and itchy trigger fingers, and I heard there were people complaining about overshooting. I was on the receiving end of one at one point, but fortunately the log barricade I was behind at the time absorbed the brunt of it, though one did sneak its way through and so it sent me back to respawn. However from what I could see and hear and understand in general was that they were being dealt with by the marshalls, so hopefully that didn't continue to be an issue into the afternoon. Wasn't too bummed out about leaving early because this week my foot has been in agony all week so I have been limping around. This weekend it has been better, but it's still definitely noticeable; I think it's inflamed tendons, because my foot saw what my shoulder was doing and thought "that looks cool, I'm going to try that too!". It's still fine today, but it was definitely starting to hurt a little, so maybe calling it at lunch was a good move anyway. All in all, short day for me, but definitely a good day. Got some things to do in the two weeks between now and next game day; fortunately I always have a backup gun that performs well, but I want to use that damned MTW! ?

I'm in the UK and I have a DMR MWS built as a mk12 mod1 with the suppressor and everything (the Modelworks kit) and it's incredibly fun. Some people will argue that GBBRs don't make good DMR platforms because they're less consistent than AEG or HPA platforms and they're correct about that, however in realistic gameplay terms I don't see much difference in performance between my MWS DMR and my MTW DMR, outside of the depths of winter where the MWS struggles a bit. However, what you gain by doing a GBBR DMR is a hell of a lot of fun. Every time you squeeze the trigger it feels very satisfying! In mine I use a 510mm inner barrel because that's what reaches all the way through the outer barrel and comes out pretty much perfectly so it doesn't poke into the flash hider, but it comes right up to it. At the moment it's a Crazy Jet, but I'm going to swap it out for a Stalker barrel in the new year after I put one in my mk23 and it was amazing. You will need an NPAS to get the power where you want it. I have mine at about 1.8J (local limit is 1.88J) and it's lovely. The longer the barrel, the more it will joule creep, so while it does help you get to the power you need, you will need an NPAS to tame that power. I'm not sure it makes it any more efficient, because I think it basically just controls how much gas goes through the barrel to propel the BB and how much goes into the recoil, but I could be wrong about that. And for fire selectors, I just use the standard one, but modified. It's very easy to get it out and modify for semi-auto only, as you just need to dremel some of the material off. It's still a 3 stage selector, but instead of safe-semi-auto, mine is safe-semi-semi with the modification. Only picture I have at the moment, but it's got a nicer scope now, has a DBAL-A2 on the side and uses the short mags and a full m16 style stock that I'm going to swap out for a Magpul PRS stock in the new year when I also get the new inner barrel for it, as I won't be using it through the winter.

With an awful handguard

And it's a gas gun, so mags are £60 each. If it was me, I'd want green gas and co2 ones as well, so I could use co2 when it's cold and green gas when it's warm. I totaled up what I would buy and I'd be looking at about £2000 + scope + extra external accessories for the 16" version. I think all in for everything I'd be looking at £2500, which is probably about double the price of my mk12 mod1 MWS setup

I have a friend who has ordered one and a bunch of spare mags, both green gas and co2. He's been waiting for it for the better part of a year and has been really looking forward to it coming out. I've got my fingers crossed for him that it's good, because they're incredibly expensive! Makes my MTW 308 look cheap by comparison ?

I have four DMRs myself, so I'll give my two cents on your options. If you want to go for a DMR there are a few options: AEG - Probably best "bang for your buck" option, but hardest in my opinion to build. Can get a pretty well working AEG DMR for a good price (though a good price is still probably at least £500 all in). I'd advise getting a RIF with a quick change spring system though, as DMR limits vary between 1.48J, 1.64J, 1.88J and very rarely 2.32J across the country. Hardest to build because there's a lot that goes into building a good AEG DMR that you have to manage, like gear ratios, air volume and cylinder to barrel ratios, motors, durable gears and pistons, and gearboxes are annoying to work on. I have a Cyma SR-25 and it's a very nice DMR platform, since it has a v2.5 gearbox which has more air volume than most standard gearboxes, and air volume is important for long-barreled rifles. However, it is in a box under my bed because I never use it and don't have space to have everything out, so while I think AEG DMRs are great, I personally don't like them much. If you're looking for an AEG DMR, I'd suggest the Cyma SR-25, but it depends on what kind of guns you like. In terms of functionality, I'd look for something with plenty of upgrade potential, but also a quick change spring system. Outside of that, the world is your oyster. HPA - Probably the easiest option, is the quietest, they're a piece of cake to tweak, but it's also pretty expensive. In my MTW, all I've got is an upgraded barrel, hop unit, rubber and nub in it, but otherwise it's stock, and all I have to do for the power is adjust the regulator. You can also get an AEG and replace the internals of the gearbox with an HPA engine. This takes a little bit of installation, but it's still easier to do than working on a gearbox, however it is still very expensive. I have a Wolverine MTW 308 and it's one of my favourite guns in my entire collection, but I also have a TM m14 that I converted from AEG to HPA by replacing the gearbox internals with an HPA engine If I was going to recommend an HPA DMR, I'd say the MTW. 308 or regular, it doesn't matter, they're the same internally. GBBR - Probably the most fun option and sometimes doesn't require too many upgrades to make a great DMR, but it's also expensive (magazines are horrendously pricey), requires a good understanding of how gas guns work, it's loud and it's the least consistent. There are some really good platforms for setting up a GBBR DMR, and don't typically need too many internal upgrades if you go for a good quality GBBR like the TM MWS, but the magazines will cost you around £50 or more per magazine and they'll weigh a lot and be very low capacity when it comes to BBs. However, it will make you grin when you fire it because it's a lot of fun! I have a TM MWS that I have built as a mk12 mod1 and run as a DMR and it's a LOT of fun. Even though of all my DMRs it's the least practical, it's probably my 2nd most used one, only the MTW gets more use and part of that is because the UK is cold for half the year and GBBRs don't do as well in the cold. If I was going to recommend a GBBR DMR, I'd say the MWS with some fancy externals or a conversion kit to make it long barreled Pistol carbines - Probably the option I hate, but it's an option. You can get something like a mk23 pistol and put it in a carbine kit to turn it into a DMR. It's pretty easy to get a mk23 shooting at DMR power; all you do is have a longer barrel to allow it to joule creep heavier ammo to the correct power, and the upgrades for it are usually fairly easy to install (hop rubber, h-plate, TDC and barrel really...). I'm not best to talk about this though because I don't have one. I have two mk23s and I will never put either of them in a carbine kit! If I was going to recommend a pistol carbine kit abomination, I'd say the mk23 with... some sort of carbine kit. I don't really know what's out there, but it's a good pistol for it. Wank trigger pull though...

Can't go wrong with a TM 1911, though they will struggle during the winter due to the small mags. They're the most efficient, but there's only so much gas the smaller 1911 mags can hold. That said, I think @Cannonfodder brings up a good point. How much use is it going to get? I'm biased towards spending a good amount on pistols because I tend to use guns with MEDs, so my pistols get a lot of use (sometimes more than the rifle!), but for most people they just sit in a holster all day. I typically only see pistols getting taken out to perform the ritual shooting of puddles while walking out to the gameplay area or back towards the safe zone, or shooting your friends in the back at respawn for fun; you know, the typical uses of airsoft pistols for most people. In that case, I wouldn't spend out on the TM and I'd get something cheaper, but also metal, and just use red or black gas if it gets too cold. On the specifics I couldn't advise you though, as while I own 3 1911s, 2 are TM and 1 is a long out of production wall-hanger that doesn't function that well as an airsoft gun, but looks lovely.

If there weren't weird legs because it's a futon, I probably could! Under there is... a Cyma SR-25, a TM VSR, an Evolution m40a3, a TM NGRS 416D and a Cyma springer breacher shotgun, as well as the empty box for my SRS and a bunch of spare VSR parts. I live in a very small room with way too much airsoft stuff and no space for it all

Not quite finished, but it'll do for now. I need to do a Brownells order to get a magpul angle grip, bipod and QD sling point, all m-lok direct mounts, but for now a few picatinny segments and the accessories from my mk12 MWS will do the job. At a glance it doesn't even look like an HPA gun. Alas, the 3d printed tournament lock on the "buffer tube" and the MTW markings are what gives it away