Impulse

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.

I buy from R8 at a fairly high frequency however haven't gone as far as a RIF yet. I do know they tend to leab towards EMS postage which is actually useful as it means it hits Royal Mail overseas so I'm yet to get tugged for customs checks however a RIF may be different. Generally really good to deal with though.

@Steveocee That's my concern is that customs will be overzealous or that Rainbow8 won't put my UKARA on it and it'll disappear. I may have picked up a Tanaka m700, but I also want a KJW m700 to tinker with (and the Tanaka is more a display piece with its real-steel Remington wooden stock) and they're one of the few shops that has it in stock!

Check Paypal wording if you're covered, hit buy and worry about it later lol

Take both...then decide on the day.  (I normally take 3-4) 

@MonkmanIf I had my own car and was driving myself down I would. I've got enough rifle bags for all of them, but I feel awkward even taking two of my rifle bags/cases (which allows me to bring 3 long guns, plus three sidearms). Usually I only take one rifle bag, which in fairness allows me to take 2 long guns plus 3 sidearms because it's a chunky bag, so I think suddenly showing up with three bags might be a bit much!

I think I might just take the m21. I'll at least get a good upper body workout lugging it around all day

I'd go with the VSR personally, make the most of the dwindling amount of foliage while you can!

section 5 anyone? 😁

@strykerlesYeah, that was my concern. No idea why it's doing it, since it's the same brand as one of the other mags which was fine. I fettled both mags to fit into the gun (they were both tight and one was pressing the gas valve slightly causing it to leak if I tilted the gun). I've managed to bring it back down to legal limits through further fettling, but the mag is a tiny bit loose now.

my Vss had a section 5 scare tooo

brought it, gutted it and changed all the internals to make a DMR, fitted a "supposed" M130 spring which should have given it around the 450fps mark

on testing....................... 562fps 😂

Wot all at once?

🤔

Oh dear god no. I think my smart charger would be smart enough to slap me in the face if I tried.

It seems like an amazing idea but there will be complaints from opposition that you're too close and within MED or (and I quote this as having happened to me) "they are scared of a BASR so close" or they'll start screaming for a marshall to chrono you to prove you're under.

It's a very romantic thought and it is very satisfying but it'll be other players that ruin it for you.

@SteveoceeYeah, I expect that'll be the case. Fortunately I'm pretty well known at my local site, but we'll see how it pans out. I'm super happy with where the power is for it, as I tested it on .32s and .48s and it was about the same power at 1.05 - 1.10J.

I agree. Take both and see which suits you best. I try to balance my loudouts, if primary isn't silent then go silent scondary and vice versa. Something silent for the take down kills and something to go loud with and intimidate/alert your team there is someone nearby.

Ultimately only you can decide on this as asking “what am bestest gun ?” On an airsoft forum is a distinctly futile action as everyone will have a different reason for their opinion on the subject .

I say mk23, no need to go loud when you have a stealthy primary (that can quick fire as well and has no MED).

Unless of course you want to.

could try changing the valves, may be sticking open a touch too long?

had a similar poroblem with my m92, could barely get half a mag out off a full fill. changed out the valves and it was ok

Thing is, before the cycling issue it was firing at least a full mag on a fill of gas. Half a mag in the winter, because it's such a small mag. I removed everything from when I had the cycling issue and even tried shoving in all the stock parts and it still had the same issue.

I've worked on a lot of pistols, because I tend to tweak mine to perfection since I use them so much more than most because boltie and MED, but this one has me at a loss for words. It has exactly the same build now as my p226 that works so flawlessly

I had a WE 1911 many years ago that had an issue like this. It seemed to cycle fine most of the time, but efficiency was piss poor & recoil was very inconsistent. I tried a bunch of things to make it work before eventually realising that the trigger disconnector was digging into the slide (and the harder the trigger was held the harder it was pressed against the slide, to the point that you could stop it cycling by holding the trigger hard enough)... in that case the fix was to simply add a shallow groove for it into the blowback housing so the slide wouldn't try to push it down more than was necessary.

I love my short mags. I use them in my mk23 carbine, my new PP-91 Kedr lookalike Mosquito, and as a triple set to make mags 8-10 for Sims. 

Hmm, 65 is a lot more viable, I might look into that for CQB.  Woodland, I use my MP5K as much as the sniper/DMR, because I'm That Guy who actually sticks to MEDs. (/rant)

@Rogerborg if you're not averse to a bit of battle rattle I have some stubby Hi-Caps that need a new home (suitably cheap of course).

Well, I've placed an order for 3 short mags from them. Figured it was as good a product as any to do my trial run of them as it didn't cost much.

Fingers crossed for you, we're all having to make that sort of decision at the moment.  I'm still holding out for short M4 mags in the UK, given the problems we've seen.  I reckon I've got an AliExpress M4 solid stock that's been stolen by Border Force without notice.

On the MP5K, I just slap in a 500+ round double-stack mag as I leave the safe zone, then that's me done.  But of course those seem to be out of stock in the UK as well.

https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/cyma-smg-5-hi-cap-570rnd-dual-clamp-mag

@RogerborgI've had that temptation, but the battle rattle is unacceptable for me. I've tailored everything in my loadout to be as quiet as possible (apart from the actual firing of the mp5k), so that'd be counter productive to the rest of the loadout. I might pick one up at some point and try it out at some point, but not yet.