Uncle Pauly

^ This 👍 I had to take a file to mine and open up the barrel window as Dave suggests. Very easy to do. Just go slow and check the fit frequently.

Nice! I love the GHK AK. It’s the most satisfying gun to shoot. Good work with the various steel upgrades. I have all the internal Hephaestus parts but none of them yet fitted (I figured I’d wait until something breaks then swap out all of the original parts in one go).

Cheers bud. Yeah, you should be good once the barrel nut is tightened. The gap on mine is approx 1mm. I could probably get it sitting flush if I cranked the nut even further, but it’s fine as is (for reference a slight gap between rail and receiver is very common in real steel builds too). Yeah it’s probably my favourite 🙂 The Fortis rail was a PITA to fit, but I eventually got it pretty much perfect after much swearing and coffee. The sound hog amplifier sits nicely inside the hand guard and adds a noticeable ‘pop’ when shooting, especially indoors. FDE colour coordination is mostly due to sticking with Magpul, although the Ace 1 Arms PMAG is a really good match.

I do love GBBRs 🙂 Details of the M4 builds can be found in the MWS mega thread... Same AK as above, but with suppressor and 5.56/.223-style mag...

Very little time spent airsofting this year, but plenty of time spent on MWS builds. Here’s my current line-up... Fortis Night Rail AR-15 build Internal: SixG Super Nub SixG High Speed Buffer Prometheus 6.03mm tight bore barrel (250mm) External: Kublai Fortis Night Rail EMG Noveske Sound Hog amplifier and tracer unit Holosun HS403B Red Dot Magpul MBUS Gen 2 flip-up sights Magpul M-LOK rail covers Magpul M-LOK Hand Stop Magpul MOE K2+ pistol grip Magpul CTR Carbine Stock Magpul MOE Trigger Guard Magpul RSA Rail Sling Attachment PTS Radian Raptor charging handle Olight Odin flashlight Ace 1 Arms PMAG L119A2 build Internal: SixG Super Nub Angry Gun Mil-Spec Buffer Tube Angry Gun Steel Bolt Stop Plate Angry Gun Super Recoil Buffer kit (high speed version) Dynamic Precision Aluminium Lightweight Bolt Carrier (silver) Dynamic Precision Enhanced Nozzle Spring Set Dynamic Precision Match Trigger UAC Enhanced Sealing Buffer WiiTech CNC Hardened Steel Disconnector External: Angry Gun L119A2 Rail (9.25" short version) Angry Gun SF216A L119 Flash Hider Angry Gun SF216A Silencer EOTech XPS2-300 Blackout PTS Flip-Up front and rear sights Angry Gun Ambi Charging Handle PTS EPG M4 pistol grip Magpul AFG2 fore grip Magpul CTR Carbine Stock Magpul ASAP sling plate Magpul RSA Rail Sling Attachment Iron Airsoft PMAG Geissele MK16 URG-I build Internal: SixG Super Nub Prometheus 6.03mm tight bore barrel (370mm) External: Z-Parts Mk16 13.5" Handguard Angry Gun Socom 556 Type-A Muzzle Brake Visionking 1.25-5x26 Short Dot Scope Tokyo Marui Cantilever Scope Mount Z Parts URG-I Airborne Charging Handle Magpul M-LOK rail covers Magpul M-LOK Hand Stop Magpul MOE K2+ pistol grip Magpul ACS-L Carbine Stock Magpul RSA Rail Sling Attachment Marui ZET 20 Round Short Magazine

Update: AFAIK, all shipping to UK is now suspended until end of January (apart from food, medicine and other essentials). Just had this confirmed by two retailers in Hong Kong, one in Russia and others across Europe. I assume US also. Apparently due to new Covid restrictions relating to UK. Likewise, post from UK to overseas destinations is also on hold.

I’ve just received delivery of an item purchased from the US. Expected delivery time was 5 days. It took 32 days to arrive at my door due to significant delays with Customs checks, brought on by ports/airports and international couriers currently in chaos prepping for Brexit. If you’re thinking of order from overseas, I would certainly a) avoid the Christmas rush and wait until New Year before ordering; and b) be prepared to wait much, much longer for your item to arrive (and accept all the risks of loss and damage that come with that). Brexit isn’t only about price hikes on imports (from the EU). It’s about our borders being a hot mess for a long while to come. Enjoy that sovereign tea, eh ☕️

Cool. Meant to be a very good grip by all accounts. Should drop right in to the MWS. PS: edit to add that I think Magpul also make a similar product. It might be called the MIAD (?). I could be wrong, but worth a quick Google.

Ouch! If it's any consolation I did the same to mine when replacing the trigger guard, albeit not quite so spectacularly (I broke off just one of the tabs). From Googling at the time, it seems to be a fairly common occurrence in the real steel world - the tabs on the M4/AR-15 platform being something of a design flaw that you need to be extra careful around. In my case I was able to Gorilla-glue the broken tab back on and it's rock solid with just a hairline crack; barely noticeable. Adds character 😉 You might be able to glue yours? Could be worth a shot and nothing to lose by trying. An alternative solution that's often recommended for AR-15s is to fit a Daniel Defense pistol grip with oversized trigger guard (or similar product). One of these:

Good question. Personally, I use the DP Enhanced Nozzle Spring Set which is reportedly "more durable", but doesn’t specify any kind of % in terms of spring resistance. I bought it 'on a whim' whilst ordering some other parts (my stock TM spring was still fine at the time) and I've been running it for I think two years now on green gas all year round. No issues. There's also the GunsModify 150% Nozzle Reset Spring Set, which I think may be a newer product (?). No experience of using it myself. 150% seems like perhaps a little too much increase in spring tension for regular use all year, but I dunno. Perhaps the DP set (above) has a similar tension, it's just not stated. Lastly, there the Watermelon Hard Nozzle Spring which I think has a 300% tension. I don't think you'd want to be using that as standard. Bear in mind that the stock TM spring seems perfectly durable in most cases. I have mates who haven't swapped out the nozzle spring for 3-4 years, run green gas all year and haven't had any problems. It seems to be one of those stories that got mentioned on a forum somewhere and has grown legs, so that now everyone believes the MWS nozzle springs are made from cheese 🙂 Hope that helps and I'm sure others here will have more to add.

I like that! Nice simplicity to it. I'd personally leave the stock black, but YMMV 🙂 So as a quick follow-up I can now confirm that: The Magpul trigger guards do fit the MWS, but only after a wee bit of filing down in places (this applies to the aluminium guard; the plastic version might be a less 'fettly' fit). A snapped trigger guard tab can be easily and quite convincingly repaired using Gorilla Glue, following some initial and copious swearing 🙄 (damn those things are brittle!).

^ Sorted. That’s good to know. Cheers! 🍺

Thanks Dave! Sorry to be an incessant sod, but can you clarify what you mean by "tuning"? E.g. did you have to widen the pin punch holes on the MWS to fit the Magpul pin and screw, something like that?