Captain Darling

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.

Try emptying your mags completely and then purging them by blowing gas through with your thumb on the knocker valve to keep it open for a couple of seconds. You may have an airlock bubble in there. Also try popping your empty mags in the fridge for 10 minutes, while keeping your gas bottle at or above room temperature. Because of some crazy fluid dynamic physics the liquid gas will want to move from the hotter vessel to the colder vessel. Also replace your gas fill bottle when it’s becoming empty, as what you’ll be doing is transferring gas across and not liquid, which is probably why you’re not getting many shots.

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.

Just reading through this info and it’s very interesting. To the OP, how come you didn’t try a GHK M4 or AK running on liquid Co2 in the mag mod? It’s very tidy, and with an NPAS it’s easy to adjust to site legal limits when the weather gets warmer. Devilhunter modification, it’s a very tidy solution and the gun looks very realistic.

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.

Wot an betstest gnu? Hands down GHK over KWA. Join the Facebook group and get some research done by reading. Also GHK make the best GBBR magazines of any GBBR, in my opinion.

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.

I see no issue with keeping players in their bubbles of six, as before. If the site RAMS passes muster their local EHO will be all to willing to sign off on it and get the wheels of business moving again. I think (hope) we'll also see a substancial reduction in the number of hospital admissions and certainly we should see a massive reduction in Covid deaths as the known high risk of death groups become less vunerable due to vaccination. My Mrs 76 year old dad had his jab in mid Jan, less than 3 weeks later he got a fever (he is in an old folks home) and after they tested him he was found to be Covid-19 positive. He had very mild syptoms and was fine a few days later. I know it's accecdotal, but I suspect Bill Gates microchip is very effective in switching the 5G off.

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.

Interesting topic, and I’m glad to see you’ve had the courage of your convictions to go ahead and flog all the HPA gear. Personally I have a massive downer on the way some HPA users can take the piss when power playing with them, and suffice to say I’ve had bad experiences playing against them on sites that should know better. Not all bad, but enough to make me groan when I spot a line on a certain type of character. Anyway, what have you ended up with? My friend Boomer got me in the MWS platform late last year, and although I was skeptical at first I completely get it now, and I’m a massive advocate. I have a milsim game coming up where I needed an AK, and after putting a lot of time and effort into fiddling with version 3 gearboxes, I’ve just given up on AEG’s. I think once you go GBBR, it’s very difficult to go back on the sewing machine. I’m wondering same applies to your old HPA rigs - is it impossible to go back to AEG’s? I love my MWS, but I’ve ended up buying a GHK AK74 and put some thought and effort into how I want it. I’ve successfully done the devil hunter mod on the mags, which was very reasonable at $27 a mag to convert. A pair of 20oz paintball tanks and Madbull converter allow me to run liquid Co2 in the AK mags, and I’m getting 2 or 3 mags full of bb’s per fill, and the mags take 50 bb’s. And they work fine at really cold temps. The kick and feedback from the gun are tremendous, and it seems almost as accurate as my MWS now I have a Crazyjet hop/bucking/barrel combo on it. To me this seems like the ideal middle ground between a intensely boring sewing machine and a soulless brad nail gun. It also seems like the closest we can get in the UK to owning and enjoying an actual firearm without loads of hassle and tedious range etiquette. And get this - I’m actually allowed to shoot it at other people at skirmishes. I know you tried messing around with 33g Co2 stocks, but have you considered gas in the mag systems?

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...

I’m going to have to go into Poundland now and look for those 300 Blackout Mars bars, as I think you might be onto something. I bet they do them in supers and sub - choices choices. And to think I would’ve been happy accepting a 4 pack of Fudge bars, not anymore

Fudge bars would be acceptable

How many Mars bars can you fit in that fake mag? 4 or 5 at a push?

Yes, sounds like typical airsoft logic. Personally I much prefer the speed of a pistol in one hand and an impact grenade in the other if I’m in a building sneaking about. The mk23 is lovely and quiet and all that, but generally without a stock or scope I find it best up to 20 metres or so. So sub 350 FPS. I know they’ll go miles if needed, and the new Novbitch 303 looks interesting, but it’s yet another ball ache for the marshalls to try and police MED with. I hear a lot of talk of DMR’s from novice players, and this is falling into that grey area of hot gun territory. The OP’s mk23 sounds nicely set up hop wise, and my honest advice to new players, or most players really is I’d keep it sub 350. The extra FPS doesn’t really get you loads more, but the risk of shooting under the 20/30 metre MED and annoying everybody is tiresome. I find this perceived range advantage particularly telling with Marui guns, where you can go a long way on lowish power.

About 400 ish FPS, so well over. You need a shorter barrel - I have a 180mm that’s over site limits on propane at anything over 10 degrees C. I’m still not understanding this current craze where people want their pistol to shoot further than their long gun?

Yeah, believe it or not, I was on the national shooting team back in the mid 80's, and we used all kinds of little tricks and tweaks like this to find that special sauce. I believe in modern parlance its called dope these days. For airsoft skirmishes I'm not planning on sticking things on my specs, close enough is good enough with these things. I'm right handed, left eye dominant, which also makes things tricky, so I like to keep both eyes open when shooting longs. Pistols are great, as I can aim with my left eye, although I've just started trying to use an RMR (so I can shoot handgun under NODS) and that's damn hard in itself to begin with. All of these reflex sights are great though, very fast at getting on target first shot. I can put up with a bit of blur.

Yeah, that kind of thing. It’s worse with my normal specs, as they’re varifocal. My shooting glasses are single vision, and less of a problem. I only notice it when ‘target’ shooting, during a skirmish I’m too busy taking snap shots to even realise anything is blurred.

I have the guns modify one on the front of my real steel 552, and I can definitely tell a difference with some additional blurring of the target picture. It’s not great to begin with due to astigmatism, but it’s a lot less blurred then the dot on my Sparc AR. I find the Eotech a hell of a lot better under NODS than the dot sight. I may be tempted to take it off, and I do have some helicopter tape knocking around somewhere, that’s a good idea.

The black RA Tech NPAS is MWS specific. It’s what I have in mine and it works fine.

Is there? I live 10 minutes from there, that’s be awesome. Any more info or links? Who’s running it?

Digging this up again as I’ve just noticed it. I’ve had an Anafi since they came out and love it - the technology has definitely matured a lot since the early days. I’ve had a couple of crashes, and written one off (taking off from the top of my motorhome into an unnoticed overhanging tree) but been lucky with repairs and Parrot replaced one FOC. I’ve done the online test and paid for a licence now, but previous to that I’d properly taken the piss and gone super high, and used flight plan to go miles away in the countryside. Awesome pieces of kit for the money. i’ve not used it in ages, but hope to be trying to get it on some milsim events for recce purposes. Has anybody else managed to successfully use a drone for airsoft without getting it shot down?