Captain Darling

I’m currently getting good range on an orange Modify X. I found the blue got chewed up pretty quickly, so I’m seeing how I get on with a harder compound.

Sounds like you’ve had good luck with that. I don’t know if I was doing something wrong, but I ended up not trusting my PTW. Dropping it in a lake in Sweden or crawling around in torrential rain at Copehill may not have helped either. I’m over the moon to be rid of finicky, over complex electronic toy guns. I think it was my 15 or so mags all slowly developing feeding faults that put the final nail in its coffin. I understand how to take these and AEG’s a part to fix, I just resent doing it and find it no fun. I really like the look of the new Infinity, but I suspect I’d get bored pretty quickly.

Sad to hear you’re not getting on with the MWS experience. As an ex PTW fanboy myself, I’m finding the overall reliability of the MWS platform very refreshing. I enjoy maintaining and tinkering with the gun, and it’s never let me down in a game, which I found was a major issue with my PTW’s, which I ran for about 10 years. I got sick of having to send them off to mysterious gurus for months at a time, to have various weak design flaws rectified at hundreds of pounds of cost. Worn sector gears, faulty motors, chopped bb’s, misfeeding magazines, catastrophic failure in very wet conditions, and a general lack of feedback from firing the PTW are all things that are thankfully long behind me know. They just got in the way of me enjoying skirmishes in the end. With a light bit of fettling, and good maintenance I’m glad to say neither my MWS or MP7 have ever failed to fire, and shoot accurately absolutely miles. Yes the mags are real capacity and realistically heavy, but I’ve completely got used to that, and I’m getting as many kills as I usually got, just with much more satisfaction of having bettered my hi-cap hose, sewing machine wielding opponents.

Guarder Power Up or Nuprol 4.0, maybe Rothenburger MAPP in a pinch if you have an AI adaptor and no sense of smell.

I haven’t touched my electric guns since buying my MWS, and now MP7. The AEG’s feel like lifeless, over complicated toys. I’ve started selling them off on a last in first out basis. Years ago GBBR’s were horrendously unreliable, but they’ve really matured as a product these days. I’ve also had to learn a bit about gas, and I’ve had my MWS out successfully out in the snow.

I hope it works for you mate, but I do not think Marui made their inner barrel nut to real steel specs. I got lucky and found some random pipe that we cut and bent to shape at work. Then loads of heat to melt the glue and it came off with quite a lot of force. Once off it's easy to get on and off whenever needed. The Brownells one in your pictures looks like it might fit, just go steady with it and send it back unmarked if it doesn't work. I'm looking at playing at MAW soon, so let me know if it doesn't fit.

Where do you live mate? I made a tool to take mine off, I could probably do yours if you're anywhere near Derby. Special tool, AR vice clamp, vice and electric heat gun where what it took to take mine off.

I use Geoffs .32 Bio tracers in my both my MWS and TM MP7 with no issues so far. .32 at 260'ish fps for CQB would be a dick move though, IMO

Yes, that’s the one. It might be better in summer, as I’m currently putting all sorts of winter gas through mine which might be smashing it a bit. Nuprol 3.0 and 4.0, Guarder black, MAPP - I think these add extra wear. I stripped it down today, and gave it a really good clean with IPA, it’s actually not in that bad condition. I think they’re probably good for 2000 to 3000 thousand shots. I’ve stuck a Laylax purple in for now, will do some range and accuracy tests tomorrow. Weirdly I’ve gained about 70 FPS! Must just be a better air seal with the nozzle and less friction on the bb due to less surface contact.

Ah yes, of course. Thanks chaps I think this is the one I was thinking about, I’ve got them on a few of my TM pistols: https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/laylaxnineball-hop-rubber-for-tokyo-marui-vsr-l96-pistols-mws-block1-purple

Good to know, thanks. Is it just a generic TM hop rubber then? In the olden days, it was common practice to replace them with a prommy purple wasn’t it?

What is the current hop rubber of choice for the MWS these days? I really rate the blue Modify X, it’s very accurate, but they’re costing me £12 a go and they don’t last 5 minutes. I put a brand new one in, and just 1000 bb’s later it is chewed up to buggery, and all over the place. Talk about the light that shines twice as brightly burns half as long. I think it’s just too soft, and is designed to be used in VSR type guns, which would never fire 1000 bb’s in 2 weeks. I’m running a 303x 6.02mm inner barrel, with a wide, open window and Dave’s nub.

I have heard the HAO one weighs a shit ton, and makes the gun quite front heavy.

You have to use the Angry Gun flash hider that comes with it, not the TM one These are appealing if, for some reason, you’ve decided to motorbike to skirmishes and everything has to fit into a backpack. After careful consideration I’m going to do what the IRA did, and split my AR into upper and lower so it fits into a smaller bag. Overall a bit smaller than that folder, and I’m £100 better off.

Arguably only bettered by kills with a 1 joule bolty.

I think if they did an actualy IUR for airsoft I'd probably be more interested to get one, but I'm not into the faux rail offerings I've seen so far. I heard Archwick were thinking of CNC'ing a solid billet integrated upper receiver, but I'm not sure if they'd do an MWS version. HAO might do one for the MWS? I also heard an unobtainium RS version will fit the GHK M4?

I felt the same until I tried it. It feels very skinny and unobtrusive in the hand, it weighs less, and it seems to me to be ergonomically superior. I struggle to use the old RIS style now, it just feels like I'm tring to manipulate the gun whilst its attached to a clunky cheese grater. Whilst the mk18 had certain real steel advantages due to heat dissipation, these are not relevant in airsoft. I really like Magpul as an innovative modern business, and their R&D on M Lok was superb. I remember getting one of the early MOE handguards for my PTW about 10 years ago and liking it's 'high speed, low drag' ergonomics, and what Geissele have done with that concept is refine it further. HAO have done an excellent job again at making it affordable for airsoft. Firm handshakes all round.

Everybody knows the mk16 is the new mk18 I've got to say I managed to get permission to get onto some private land today to shoot at long ranges with my MWS, and it was shooting like horse shit. This evening I worked on my GHK AK74 and my MWS, and the Mauri has so much nicer to fix. It may just be an inherant AK vs M4 thing, but the MWS was a pleasure to work on. I found out what was wrong and fixed it: I've only had the gun since October 2020! I have shot it a lot though, that's maybe 3000 - 4000 bb's through a soft as shit Modify X bucking on black gas or MAPP. The barrel was also very dirty. All sorted now with a Modify tan I had in my bits box.

User on here rocketdogbert HPA is the devils work though, maybe just try shooting less and using black gas unless it’s sub zero, and then at that point just stay at home?

Both good points guys. I just needed it for a game in December so it was easier to shove the Marui BCG back in. I will have a look at it next week, I’ve recently got my hands on a Angry Gun high speed buffer, so that’s something else to mess with. I love tuning this gun, it’s much more rewarding than an AEG in that department.

I’ve been having problems with my HAO lightweight bolt. Failing to lock back on empty magazine. I’ve put a good 600 bb’s through it on black gas, as I was using it outside in the cold. The TM bolt is back in now, running fine. I’m going to email HAO and bring it to their attention.

I’ve been thinking about ordering a couple of the G&P mags to try out, but I’m not sure if 10 extra bb’s are worth it for all that cost. And in my opinion they do look a bit daft, like cumbersome dongs. I was surprised to find that skirmishing with 35 bb mags was fine, 5/6 mags really lasted. I tried my nice AEG MP7 the other day for a couple of 100 bb mags and I didn’t know what to do with all the extra shots. It felt boring and lifeless.

Yeah, I went on a few of those training days and really enjoyed them. The main impression I remember taking away from the instructor, who was an ex SAS pro, was that it was basically just a job to him. A bit like a cross between a painter and decorator and maybe a butcher. The way he talked about how to breach and clear a building was just so matter of fact and mundane, about the techniques to use when blowing your way in and killing all the bad guys made it sound less glamourised and more humdrum.

Ah, I’m just big timing Dave. I did a past Stirling event (Op Bartos) when we got a helicopter insert from a pair of Bell 206’s, that they’d taken the doors off. https://youtu.be/1Bpi5Tp53H4

I wouldn't trust my fancy GBBR hanging off some butchered airsoft mount. RS all the way for that shit if you're jumping through windows or hanging off a helicopter...