The Commander

Had a good experience with Wolf in the Bunker 51 games they ran, but the actual store customer service is awful. Originally had a bad experience with them when I went to buy a TM TWS M4, so I went with Fire Support which had a better price AND actually answered my questions. When I made the mistake of making a purchase at Wolf, their aftersales support was even more atrocious, as they kept one of my pistols for a few months during the pandemic in their Hire Purchase scheme, and they actually lost the pistol's magazine and refused to replace it, so I now got a TM pistol in the box with manual and all accessories but no magazine. Shame that's one of the only stores in London, but thankfully due to the internet you can use other retailers and I'll never have to rely on their crappy-ass customer service ever again.

Alternatively, I got this one from Amazon and it's *really* good: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07K1HWZ2R/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Did a fair amount of research because I heard of tools breaking, but that one has survived for a year of intense usage every time I work on my M4A1.

Yes! 😃 That's exactly what I have in mind, as I can replace the muzzle brake with a silencer/tracer unit if needed 😁 Problem is I don't know a lot about changing barrels in airsoft, so I'm not sure what length I should go for and if I need to replace the inner barrel as well or something 😋

Not 100%, but yep -- just a more CQB look, with a shorter barrel to compensate for the size of the silencer/tracer unit. 🙂 I'm aiming for the barrel to be something like this:

I'm thinking of replacing my vanilla MWS outer barrel with a short barrel to use with a silencer/tracer unit, but I know exactly nothing about it. What are people's experiences on the subject? I got my eye on this nice kit with multiple barrels, but don't know if it's a good option/good price/good brand/good product. If that's not good, can anyone recommend a good barrel for the MWS?

Two real examples of things being imported and the associated costs: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/jan/27/anna-customs-duty It seems things under £135 cost the same as if they were bought in an UK store + the delivery fee?

Related to the topic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-55734277 Apparently speculations abound that the import rules will change at some point.

So if you're spending say £260, would it make more financial sense/be cheaper to make two purchases of £130 and pay for delivery twice than buying a single £260 order that will be charged customs on top?

I'm planning on making a purchase at Powair6 once they start shipping to the UK again, later this month by their own estimates. The UK already charges 20% for internal products anyway, so if it's just 2% + £8, it sounds reasonable.

So basically when buying from European Union shops, it seems as if: If you buy something under £135, you get charged a 20% surplus when purchasing (so a £100 item would cost £120) If you buy something over £135, you don't get charged a 20% surplus when purchasing BUT your shipment MIGHT be stopped at UK customs and charged a 40% import fee (so a £200 item would cost £280) Is that correct? I know it's all theoretical now until we have more actual cases of people buying stuff from EU-based shops, so hopefully people will be able to update us with first-hand experiences soon. 🙂

Now that we have actually left the European Union, a lot of airsoft shops that we used to browse have stopped shipping to UK -- either permanently or temporarily, until they get their new VAT registration going. Since the import tariffs are a bit confusing even for the people doing them, I wonder if anyone already had first hand experience importing things from Europe after January 01, 2021. I ran some tests on some shops that show the estimated values, and for a £16 pound item, they are predicting £12 in import taxes -- essentially doubling the item's cost. Anyone actually bought anything? Were you taxed? If so, how much?

Anyone had any experiences with https://www.powair6.com/en/ ? They seem to ship from France and have some good stock on Magpul stuff and good prices for UK, especially taking currency conversion into account. However, googling them provides almost no footprint and zero reviews. Anyone here deal with them, or heard of someone who did?

I want to get a short barrel for the MWS compatible with a suppressor-tracer, but there are zillions of options at Fire-Support/Patrolbase/Amazon/et al. Can anyone can roughly point me towards one worth getting? Also, anyone bought at Eagle6.co.uk? They seem to have a lot of TM compatible stuff, and it's almost too convenient to be true.

I'm getting ready for another round of modifications (still can't find a cheap QD mount, so gonna have to get a £40 one 😒) and came across this tool. Anyone used it? Is it worth it, or can you do everything with normal tools easily enough?