Cr0-Magnon

you looked at Taiwan and / or Japan yet?

@ak2m4 - Yeah, about & £325 plus the strong possibility of customs & duty etc. Think I'll just hold tight until more stock hits our shores.

@Cr0-Magnon crwairsoft in HK another option I believe, but yeah with all the turmoil maybe best to wait.  

Errmmmm SSX with holster, suppressor and several mags, SSP1 with the same plus shortstroke slide, scope with all the trimmings, BB's, a tactical belt...signed poster, 2019 wall calendar, 200ml pot of Novritsch's bath water.

jesus man, for that kinda money you could have bought a gun that worked!

Damn.

I get why you're so frustrated with them!

Looking good. 

hehe I don't hang around 🙂 Let us all know how it get's on with ZCI parts

@ak2m4 - Think I may have ordered the wrong length barrel but we'll see.

@ak2m4 - Parts arrived today and couldn't have been simpler to install. All I can say is it feeds well. Excited to see how it performs with 60 degree maple leaf bucking and omega nub. The stock setup it was a bit lack luster on 0.28g's but with it getting dark so early now I may have to wait for the weekend.

Looks smoother in that gif, than when a ham fisted airsofter wildly smacks his Taiwanese toy.

I feel like the airsoft version is much more 'HK snap' than it is 'HK slap'. Yes I'm aware how shit that 'joke' is, and no, I'm not ashamed.

My main income for the past 14 years has been Airsoft . It pays all my bills and pays for my holidays . And no I'm most certainly not a youtuber lol. No playing Airsoft isn't the everyday task of my job now although that used to be a larger portion of it once . It is however still a part of my job to attend events as a player . Would I consider it a profession? Probably not but it does fulfill the criteria but to me it's just work and has been for so long that there is nothing special to it now

 

Im with @Cr0-Magnon here, unless you are sponsored or paid to play as a full time airsofter its not a profession, the definitions make sense but being a decent footballer doesnt make you a professional, playing for a team full time does. All non league players have a 'profession' outside of football and want to become a professional baller so its a bit ambiguous. 

Airsoft youtubers are that, they are professional youtubers/content makers not professional players, hell most players would argue the top youtubers dont really play in the spirit thats intended with the game but thats a whole different convo lol.

 

I would be interested to hear what 1st commando does/did. I get being involved in airsoft could be a profession but again being a professional airsoft "player", nah... unless someone can convince me otherwise.

The money for professional boxers, footballers, tennis players etc comes from the audience whether through ticket sales or via TV views/sales.  

 

Same with YT airsofters?  No ones paid to play sport, act etc in private.  

 

I dunno, the black sits quite nice. Kind of poor mans blueing.

 

I mean its based on the colt 25 which im pretty sure predates parkerising

@Adolf Hamster - A blued one would be amazing.

probably possible to make a facsimile, afaik you can't properly blue aluminium.

 

maybe a really dark anodising?

bolties at 1j is basically airsoft hard mode.

 

problem i have with it is you just end up so frustrated at landing a beautiful shot, the target not taking it, and being stuck without the ability to quickly follow up and often not wanting to expose your position to call them out on it.

 

which is probably why my bolty can only lift .32's and i have 2 assault guns that can lift .48's......

The issue I had with running a 1J BASR is the guys I shot at 15-30M ranges cried like little bitches because one was "scared of a sniper that close shooting at them" and the other was convinced I was running 500FPS and demanded.inwas chronod.

 

Wasn't worth the hassle so dropped an M150 in and sat an extra 20M back.

What Adolf said.

In this country there is this retarded mindset that one bb is not a hit and people need to bleed to call them.

So most of the times I shoot at people, hit them, they shrug it off and keep playing, until I blast them in the face or where it hurts the most (inner thigh/armpit says hello), but at that point it's not fun anymore. I'd like to play more as a sniper because the overall role is extremely fun (slipping past opponents, realying their positions and movements to my teammates, taking shots to disorient them, you know, what makes it fun) but gets old fast when people just consider you an inferior being.

it is true, time served on it's own isn't applicable in all situations.

 

you can spend 20 years playing but still have never worked on one of your guns.

 

 

Funnily enuff hamster 🐹  that’s basically me ! Been playing over 20 yrs now but I never work on the gearboxes of my guns as I’m a total Neanderthal when it comes to that kind of tech work . Back in the early days I tried to(sat down in front of the PC mecbox playing) and absolutely failed to get anywhere ! I can diagnose problems no sweat , can even tell you how to fix it BUT if I try to actually do it my self ? Cue implosion of gearbox ! 

@Druid799 I remember one game in particular when the dog leg was still there, my buddy Greg had holed up on the upper level behind the lift shaft and "mined" the stairs with two separate sets of remote dets. Many kills were had that day!

My favourite was a team of way too serious types stacked up on the middle double doors of the basement service tunnel , lead chap pulls the door open 2nd lobs a ‘nade around him way too high , hits the door frame bounces back and detonated on top of the lead’s helmet ! 😖

he goes down like a sack of the brown smelly stuff rest of the team were declared grenade killed by the marshal then we noticed No1 was sat on the floor with the blankest look on his Face i’d ever seen 😵‍💫 took him a good hr to ‘recompose him self’ shall we say ? And apparently took a couple of days for the ringing in his ears to subside ! 🤣🤣

You're not wrong there. The number of times I see pyro "fails" where they throw it into a tree, or try to post it into a 1st floor window only to miss and have it bounce back, killing them all... Priceless

 

I can count the amount of pyro I've thrown in this game on one hand, and I've been playing for almost 17 years now. I just don't like it, though if I was going to a more serious event I'd probably just pack lots of smokes. Smokes can be really, really helpful as a sniper for disengaging.

6 eagles 🙂

I'm not going list my obsessive list of dupes...

but I see nothing wrong with a backup of same gun you like

(or two, or *insert insane figure*)

 

if you killed the mosfet then go Perun v2 optical

from Airsoft World...

https://www.airsoftworld.net/perun-v2-optical-drop-in-programmable-mosfet-rear-wired.html

use code: AWFF1102312012 to get 5% or £3 off = £57

 

NB: you will need to install a safety arm

as the DE doesn't have one on safe mode

 

bit of agro - but more features & stuff

or just keep as spare I guess

 

Luke at NA was testing out a prototype Perun optical trigger unit

kinda an optical G&G ETU switch unit replacement

as an option when the G&G shits the bed or other guns even

 

Perun are upping their game with work in progress

plus good stuff already on offer = cost effective GATE alternatives

@ak2m4 - Yeah, also 6 orders from you for ZCI bits haha. Annoyingly I seem to have lost the plastic chamber and only ordered spare parts for it from you. Although the stock ones on these are rotary anyway.

customs is the big one, it'll take a package 2 days to cross the atlantic followed by 2 week crossing the dover docks

I recently ordered an EBR front end because...reasons. What actually turned up was two outer barrels, an EBR sightpost and gas block and a standard M14 flash hider. All in bits as opposed to the "fully assembled" of the description and devoid of the EBR Vortex flash hider. Quick online chat with customer service and it was all sorted, replacement sent FOC and was told to keep the bits I'd been sent in error. Thanks to the goods being marked as zero value there was no customs hold up the second time which highlighted just how long they'd hung on to it before!

 

 

I don't think I've ever had anything come from the US that hasn't been molested by customs.  It's pretty much guaranteed.

@rocketdogbert - Oh yeah, definitely not. I'm about £500 deep. Because there aren't enough black Glocks in this world!

 

@Adolf Hamster - I concur. I could then put the AAP-01 in the tan Glock case I have....which makes sense in a roundabout way.

I want the aap-01

@Cr0-Magnon Yes I have the Gen 2 Guarder kit, so Nylon. You can get them from Rainbow 8. Though only in black. Hopefully Guarder will reissue the other colours at some point as I'd like a full set. 

Good shout, I'd found it for 50% more expensive on another site as last I checked Rainbow8 were out of stock. Did you change the outer barrel too?

 

Funnily enough I've had a big Rainbow8 order delivered today. I decided to build a "TM" Glock 19 from scratch using 100% Guarder parts, the frame for that is FDE. So I'm fine with all black for the 57.

@Cr0-Magnon

 

I got a Guarder Outer Barrel and made the Hop unit "ear" cuts that Maple Leaf did to theirs to prevent wear. I also drilled out the business end of the outer barrel as it was a little bit too small and caused BB's to hit the edge. 

@Cr0-Magnon shhhhh, don’t take away my Get Out of Jail Free card 😉

“Eastern but Central”? That sounds like a thing only a Pole would say 😁

@ziCk_ - Haha no, their neighbour to the south - Slovakia.

You know what they say, you miss every shot you don’t take... I missed anyway 🤪

@Steveocee - I genuinely wish that was the case but doesn't seem like people are much interested in that. The airsoft videos which seem to pull the biggest numbers on youtube, are drama in a game and those which spend thousands on mystery boxes.

 

Case in point, this video:

 

 

4.2 million views of a small kid getting hurt and likely never wanting to ever play our sport again. This disappoints me on so many levels.

Never been a ‘fanboy’ of Novichok but in the beginning his vids where entertaining but now ? He’s gone the same way as every other Airsoft ‘superstar’ , after a period of time they all seem to turn in to wankers once they’ve been treated like a Demi-god by hordes of pimply faced pre-pubescent crotch goblins for long enough .

Novritsch did WHAT!?

@GeorgePlaysAirsoft - Thought you may pop up to re-use your favourite picture 👍

Small, sweet, deadly. I was tempted too until I decided fuck the mags.

I've got one for sale, £400 with everything you could need to start skirmishing

@CJSpalding - Thanks for the offer but I've just checked your ad and it comes with loads of stuff I don't need/want, so will likely stick to buying one new around the £280 mark.

Definitely VFC over WE, I've been owning both for 5+years, WE became a little wobbly over time while vfc holds it sturdy through out all these years

I'd spend more money on VFC altough they aren't the best either. Marui NGRS MP5 is the closest alternative (probably).

I may well just wait to see if another is announced this year. Realistically I'm not desperate for one and none of the current offerings are perfect.

Oooh, get you lot with your fancy-pants "mounts".

 

 

@Rogerborg - "Scottish Man pulled over with guns, duct tape and cable ties in his car boot"

you got a loicence for these cable ties guv?

 

thought not, youre bloody nicked sunshine

@alxndrhll - I've just taken a test, so will know for sure shortly!

Just making sure it wasn’t where I played 😂

You will be ok. I've heard that you're too ugly for bugs to settle. 🤭

Regards 

@MistakenMexican - I know this more than most. I often see people trying to sell custom Hi Capa's for £500 or more and think "if I was going to sink that much in to one, I'd just go to Mike Cripps"....for all I know a private seller has built one through trial and error and not feeling 100% warm and toasty about the end result.

Indeed, I've had to swallow a bit pill recently. 

I've got a bunch of rare pistols that just wont sell for the 70% formula... and it's not because people don't want them or they don't work... it's because people don't have £400 lying around to buy a second hand pistol.

I always upgrade all my pistols to shoot as well as I can make them, but I tend to use them a lot because bolt actions and MEDs. It's totally worth it for me to spend £250 on a TM pistol with all the bells and whistles because I need it to perform.

 

So it's definitely worth a lot to me, however selling them second hand... I'd 100% agree. Having upgraded all my pistols, I know it really isn't that expensive to make them shoot well with all the things

Enter a promo code...

 

are they taking the fucking piss or something

you would need like a 95% discount code FFS

 

$10,410.99 x 0.95 or 5% of original BS price = $520:55

(a bit more reasonable - ish)

 

Yeah best of luck finding the 95% discount code

Fuck me you could go First Class & collect it in person

& still have change to spend on Wu-Flu hookers

 

 

@Sitting Duck 3 weeks in a quarantine hotel currently, now if they allowed the hookers then maybe not so bad 🙂

@ak2m4 thing I wonder about...

when you get off the plane and have to stay in a hotel to quarantine...

 

Doesn't the cabin crew also have to quarantine too ???

 

After all they have been on the same aircraft with a plane full of lepers all breathing the same air & had to stay over in the place you flew back from on a long haul flight ???

 

Ahhh - but they are vaccinated most likely...

 

But you can still catch & infect others even after vaccination, hence still wear masks & social distance etc... so are the cabin crew also entering quarantine too ???

 

Besides, I would be flying First Class with Charlie Sheen & Hunter Biden so us lot up the front are exempt from all those lepers in economy class, plus all the hookers had the vaccine...

(even though it looked they was shooting up heroin & smoking crack)