Captain Darling
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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.
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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.
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On 21/01/2021 at 20:27, alxndrhll said:
Appreciate all the thoughts, it's been useful to hear other folks thinking aloud. I've gone through all the pro's and con's and figured out what it is I want out of the hobby from this point forward and have decided to hang up the tanks, lines, regulators and scuba tanks in favour of GBBRs. I think I'm just in a very different place with the hobby from where I was way back when, when HPA was the logical choice. I feel I've given it enough thought and consideration at this point and I keep landing on the same answer, and it's one I'm happy with. Thanks again for the input folks!
P.S. @Davegolf Y'all got any of those nubs left? 😅
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?
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3 hours ago, Davegolf said:
You have airsoft Heli’s!? 😭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
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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...
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Fudge bars would be acceptable
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9 hours ago, Enid_Puceflange said:22 minutes ago, heroshark said:
This is my answer to the argument 😁.
How many Mars bars can you fit in that fake mag? 4 or 5 at a push?
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2 hours ago, Adolf Hamster said:
in the op's case i think he's simply misunderstanding/underestimating exactly what he's trying to do.
however as a more widespread thing i guess it's a case of people reckoning that a long-gun being handier for snap-shooting is more practical in up-close engagements whereas a longer range engagement where you have time to aim allows passable performance with a pistol.
kind of flipping the dmr/sidearm paradigm on it's head.
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.
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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?
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34 minutes ago, rocketdogbert said:
Have you tried these? It’s a physics thing, essentially a pin-hole camera, the small hole re-focuses the light, no more blurringhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/EyePal-Sight-Master-Rifles-Pistols/dp/B00DG5Y9GW
Might be cheaper elsewhere, but they do work really well
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.
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23 hours ago, AlphaBear said:
May I ask, do you see flaring on the Eotech reticle, kinda like spiky flames?
@Davegolfif I dropped mine 2m let alone 1m, I'd definitely cry... 🤣
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.
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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.
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12 hours ago, quango2k said:
Still don't know what NPAS to go for. I tried the v2 angry gun complete nozzle and that caused all sorts of weirdness so that's out the window.
There seems to be 200 different types of G&P valve and have no idea what one is the one to go for lol
The black RA Tech NPAS is MWS specific. It’s what I have in mine and it works fine.
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On 11/02/2021 at 17:34, leadly said:
I'm running both of mine totally standard. I do intend on getting a couple Autobot 50/60's to have just incase I want to tinker.
I've only used one as a side arm when my M.E.D got breached, but hopefully after we can play again I'll use one as a primary. There's a new CQB site opening up in Sinfin, so I'll get test it out there at some point!
Is there? I live 10 minutes from there, that’s be awesome. Any more info or links? Who’s running it?
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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?
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19 minutes ago, ttony1314 said:
Don't have time to read though all 171 pages but here are some findings on gas and please let me know if you have experience the same thing or different.
I have orginally ran my MWS on ASG ultrair, started to have issue with not finishing a whole mag when it is sub 5 degree. Read here that they are not pure Propane hence why the poor performance when Temp is Low.
Switched to Nuprol 2.0, but ran just as bad as the Ultrair, interesting as I thought they are just pure Propane with silicone oil mixed in.
Switch to propane which made the gun run much better even sub 0 degree.
Can anyone comfirm Nuprol is just propane? if yes why there is such a big difference on performance?
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
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Have a look at the KWA MP9. I’ve had one since they came out and I absolutely love it. Next best thing to a modernised plastic UZI if you ask me. I prefer it to the weeny TM MP7, and as much as I love them MP5 ergonomics seem very dated to me. 48 bb mags on the KWA as well, and the suppressor looks like a proper bean can.
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2 hours ago, gunbod007 said:
So I actually spent a few mins making a comparison in different lighting then realised max file size here is 8MB hahaThat 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!
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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.
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Which colour autobot?
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12 hours ago, Wild Weasel said:
I'm currently going through a trial period for accuracy on my mws going through the various hop rubber combinations, my barrel is the standard 250mm and my nub is the super six g, I currently have the maple leaf Autobot 60 degree bucking which is giving great accuracy at 20 metres I've not been able to test it at a greater range due to lockdowns, apparently this will not allow for accuracy at greater range so I have ordered a maple leaf Mr hop rubber.
Has anybody had experience with this combination with regards to range and accuracy.
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?
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I’ve considered one for night use under NVG, but I don’t think the ones I have seen available dim to a suitable level. The TM one looks OK at £55, but probably too bright not to bloom. Sod spending on RS, it’s just not money well spent IMO.
Sticking to a carbine is probably better, or maybe some half decent tritium irons on the pistol? Depth of field isn’t a strong point of any NVG, so any irons are going to be challenging.
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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.
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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.