Captain Darling

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...

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?

I’d be using black gas at sub 5C. Nuprol 4.0, etc, or MAPP. I’ve a GHK AK74 on the way that I’m planning to DH mod, it’ll be interesting to compare the cold weather performance of that to my MWS

That also sounds great. I’m fed up of shooting mine in the garden or at my warehouse - I just want to get to a skirmish and use it in anger again!

Well, it allows you to use heavier bb’s, which seem to go further. I use Geoff’s .32 and a Modify X bucking with my Six G nub, they go miles - all the way right over there. I’d go heavier, but .32 are the heaviest Geoff’s make tracer, and I wanted to use the same weight for both tracer and normal. Costs tend to go up the heavier the ammo as well.

Which colour autobot?

Biggest problem I was having over the last 2 or 3 weeks was the effect of the cold on the hop rubber. I would have expected gas problems, but I got away with Nuprol 4.0, Rothenburger MAPP and Guarder power up black. Lowest FPS I had was equivalent 335 fps on .20g. However, the Modify X blue hop rubber didn't like the cold. I am trying to source a Modify X purple rubber, which seems to be rated at 55°. A bit pointless anyway, given the current situation. I wonder what the temps will be when we are out shooting each other again?

I have been playing in really cold temps, -2° with snow covering the gun at points. My Sniper Mechanic Flamingo bucking has been pretty crap in the cold, I cannot recommend. I switched the rubber back to a 65° Modify X and saw a great improvement. I also recently switched from MAPP to Guarder Power Up black gas, and am otherwise running a RA Tech black NPAS, 303/6.02mm inner, TM nozzle, HAO lightweight bolt, SixG nub and HSB, with GG modded mags, and .32 Geoffs. After being outside for hours and covered in snow I am seeing a minimum of 1 joule, around 270 fps on the .32's. Inside my house my chrono is saying 380 ish on a .20, so around 1.3 J. I am really impressed with the Guarder black gas. Are there any other softer buckings I can try to help with the consistency of shots? My first few shots after not firing for a few minutes weren't great, and I was finding I had to apply several more clicks of hop than usual. Having said that, I was firing the MWS from an elevated position down into a valley and getting hits from miles away. I was having to burn through mags, but after a few ranging shots I was getting solid hits at well beyond 60 metres. I'm very impressed, although it's still tricky going up against open day skirmish 300 bb hi cap spray and pray merchants.

Wow, that’s quite the slong. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Reminds me of that sweet period in the 80’s of using Bren mags on the SLR - not massively practical or necessarily effective.

Bit of a necropost here, but an update nevertheless. I went to this site last Sunday, and I’m sad to say all of the above review is still the case. But now with added bad airsoft bingo: Wall to wall unchecked HPA wankers Hot guns Non hit taking Overkill Poorly executed medic rules I’m being harsh, and I think there’s more going on with the site than I understand. Everybody was friendly enough, but nobody in charge seemed to have a grip of what was going on. I was chatting with a lovely lad who had been allowed to use his hi cap fed Barrett 50 cal HPA, firing .43’s as a semi auto DMR on fuck knows what silly FPS. He didn’t carry a secondary, just grenades. It’s really put me off airsoft - 1/2 the site were using wanker HPA guns, I suspect mainly to circumvent the single shot only rule by feathering out 5 shot taps. However some were in my opinion taking advantage of the extremely weak chrono policy on site, where far too much trust was placed on players to say what weight ammo they were using. No tourney locks, no random chronos on .20’s. In my option having 40 odd players on HPA, poorly policed, is a recipe for a day of toxic airsoft. If every site was run like this I honestly would just quit, it was that unnecessarily shit. From chatting with other players, I suspect that it’s just how things roll there, and to be competitive the way to play is rock up with a HPA rig running 1.7 J, spam the trigger and only expect to have your hit taken on the 4th or 5th bb. Toxic airsoft, but if you go there knowing that and are prepared to play on those terms, it’s probably loads of fun for those in the know. As I said, the others players, site owner and ‘marshalls’ were warm friendly people who were up for a fun day, but ultimately the place was out of control.

I have 3 already! 9.3” in black, and also DDC - I couldn’t make my mind up. I’m currently fettling a DDC 14.5” on a DMR build MWS. I just love the look and feel of this skinny rail. All HAO, I really rate their workmanship.

Yes, very nice. I’ve seen photos of the RS green URGI rail, but never in airsoft. That could be a unique build you’ve got there, for now.