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I recommend a blood sacrifice to whatever deity you believe holds dominion over mechanical contraptions of wargames. That, or consider if the body is minorly damaged in a way that compromises the shape of the sealing areas in the metal itself, even if minor. I dropped a brand new MWS mag once and it never held gas again even after 3 professional repair attempts due to an imperceptible bend of the overall vessel compromising a seal somewhere even with fresh fully greased seals/o-rings/etc. - Was a right bummer! Also Rory's question is good, where exactly is the leak... And how heavy is it's perio- I mean flow? Maybe vid'ya a water or soap bubble test or something in case that might help others diagnose it remotely with ya. TBH in my case after multiple self-repair attempts and several professional repair attempts, I just gave up on my busted MWS mag and replaced it. But, won't hurt to try copious amounts of thick ass grease, PTFE tape, and a ritual sacrifice of small children to the gas gods at a sacred skirmish site on a blood moon at the strike of midnight in the mean time before giving up, I'm sure. I'm also be keeping that power steering fluid suggestion in mind my dang self

I mean, I never said the outfit was "gangsta"... Only likely criminal-adjacent in appearance due to the ACAB backpatch and ratty streetpunk vibe... But shooting completely inaccurately off hand only barely aiming with an oft-sideway pistol and being unlikely to hit shit is traditionally considered so, right? Although somehow even having to pardon the pride pins present I still perfectly progressed with precision despite my paltry pistol predicament, proving my partners proud in performance more perfectly than the parcel of pigs plaguing the playingfield perchance at that precise present.

I'm not sure the name Bristol Airsoft exactly fits anymore, and it's a bit far for me, but this was recently announced and I thought it worth posting about here just for folks to be aware!

Depends what you really mean by "good" - I've been pretty lucky with relatively cheap light/laser combos off amazon and such. On my GBBR (TM MWS) I'm running a PEQ-15 knockoff (The brand was DoxiSN but the product page on amazon doesn't exist anymore). The IR laser is functional, and the light and visible laser aren't gonna win any awards but they work. I haven't had a chance to skirmish with it and be too harsh on it, but it's been ok keeping zero under recoil and such for like a year on the MWS. I say cheap, it was still like £50... I guesswhat I'm trying to say, is sometimes the knockoffs seem alright for airsoft purposes at least 😅

Nevermind, Your post was after mine and wasn't replying to anyone so I thought y'all were talking about my pic, I was just as confused as you were. Ignore my sleep deprived ass. I had no idea WTF you were talking about and I thought you were seeing shit 🤣

Howdy. Sorry if this is something posted a lot, or in an existign thread I could seek out but couldn't find when searching - I want to upgrade my old TM P226 E2 to metal. It was retired as myh main smkirmish duty pistol and now I kind of want it to be my fancy personal sidearm, and have a nice heft and feel to it. I can't find the PCG (PGC? Whichever it is) metal kits people keep recommending, they seem extinct, so I may just go with guarder. A friend is going to do the actual work for me because I'm both lazy and dyspraxic (AKA clinically clumsy) so I don't want to mess it up. A. Is there actually any better metal kits people would recommend? I want to keep it two tone (silver slide, black frame), as the plastic one is that way due to being a frankengun built out of 2 broken guns and a smattering of aftermarket parts. It already has a lightweight BBU and a bunch of other stuff AFAIK. I can buy a guarder silver slide and guarder black frame seperately, but if there is really anything better than guarder, do let me know. I also added the guarder steel barrel to the list - Is there any other ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY upgrades for switching to a metal kit? Or is everything more just suggested. Also, where can I get the grip screw bushigns or whatever, to fit a standard grip to the E2 frame? I have some real wood grips I want to fit, they may need adjusting but also I need to be able to screw the buggers on. Thanks in advance for any advice!

Went on a bit of a spending spree recently.. 😅 Bought myself a new plate carrier with some real Lvl 3 plates so I could run real weight (and just to say I have real plates... lol), plus new mags for my MWS, some of that cheap nightvision that keeps being advertised for lols... And then got sucked into the classified here and got an Umarex Glock 19 but then decided I wanted a 17 and saw a Deluxe/CO2 model, so now I have both, and a few extra 17 mags... As well as an SCW9, and went ham with accessories folks were flogging like a safariland holster, peltor headset, etc. Also topped up on accessories and consumables that broke or ran out. I should prob stop spending so much, or at least stop buying guns and stuff and be smart about what I get... But I still really want some kind of shotgun, need a new combat shirt 'cause my main uniforms one disappeared somehow and my button up is ripped (and not very practical to skirmish in), and could really use some optics for the new pews too >.> And the soft bag I carry my MWS in sketches me out but hard cases are so damn expensive! Bad Kirby. No more stuff for a while!

Maybe it's part of the special kind of logic system I've heard most of them use. It's called Nonce-sense. - Unrelated; Two cigarettes are in a bar, one's bragging about how tough he is. Hardest cig in town he claims. As he's talking, a cigarette with a green ring marked near the filter and the cig that was bragging goes quiet and tries to blend in and not be noticed. His mate notices and raises an eyebrow. "I thought you were the hardest cig round here?" he asks. The bragger looks at him with fear in his eyes and replies; "Yeah but I ain't messing with him, he's menthol. Other side of the pub a similar situation is happening, but it's 2 bits of tarmac. One's bragging about how hard he is. Suddenly, a red piece of tarmac strolls into the bar and the one that was bragging shuts up and goes to slink off to the toilets... His friend looks at him and says "Wait, are you scared of that guy? I thought you were hard?!" The one that had been bragging hisses under his breath "Yeah but I don't wanna piss him off. That guy's a cycle-path!" As all this is going on, a piece of string walks in, approaches the bar, and asks for a pint. The bartender refuses and tells him they don't serve his kind in here. The string sighs and says ok, before heading back out the door. Outside, there's some kind of commotion before the string walks back in, all messed up like he'd been attacked. The string walks up to the bar and asks for a pint again. The bartender says "Aren't you that piece of string that came in a second ago?" The string replies "I'm a frayed knot."

Usually I wear my group's uniform or a theme based on it, from private security goon to PMCish/mercenary, to our elite Crisis Response Team... But, the ONE time I went wearing my day to day punk stuff, inc. a big ass ACAB back patch ('cause I broke my right hand so decided to just go 'gangsta' and wear criminal looking shit while shooting lefty one handed)... A team of actual cops were on the other team. The marshal found it hilarious.

Nice. I only run GBBs so, might be a good idea for me to look into joining in!

This could be a dumb question, but I need to swap the retention strap to the larger one on this nuprol holster I don't want to damage it, hence asking before I go too ham... Is it just a case of being a little more forceful than I am, or is there some knack to it? Sorry if it's obvious and I'm being daft. Just struggling to get the small one off and already began chewing the plastic up a bit in my attempts.

I usually play CQB, and I have both hypersensitive hearing AND hearing damage of different types in each ear (physical damage one side, extended high volume damage the other), so despite a lot of people not bothering with hearing protection even if indoors, I really do require it personally. I'd say it's worth it. Active hearing pro so you can hear marshals, teammates, etc., but block out loud bangs, and also you can plug any comms/radios or even music in as a bonus (I used to run music in one ear, radio in the other, as it automatically worked that way if I plugged my phone and radio in on a splitter) I used to run fairly cheap civilian shooting active earpro, but they did have a habit of dying randomly, so it's worth maybe researching into current choices for value vs. money and investing in something decent if it's actually gonna last

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I've used Nuprol, Abbey, and WE regular (2.0/etc.etc. depending on brand), and have genuine TM mags from different vendors that all seem to be constructed and behave the same (inc. the one that came with the MWS). I have tried various things, and do purge the air manually in the way that works for different gun's mags, but it makes no difference to the issue with the MWS mags (unless they obviously have trapped air in and need it, like any other mag sometimes gets. Then it's just, as expected, and continues to have issues with regular GG but is fine with 144a/lower pressure). The gun & mags are about a year old but never skirmished with yet, only used for plinking for a few hours for a day or two at a time before being cleaned up and put away for a week or two. Mostly just keeping myself and the gun maintained, fresh, and enjoyed. lol. Thank you all for your attempts to assist btw! I'm stumped so I'm just going to keep running 144a 'cause it works. Obviously I'll keep some regular GG on hand in case it's ever too cold or decides to like it one day but, all my main guns are TM so 144a is recommended anyway, and works on everything reliably lol.