Groot

Hello, So, prepare for some ramblings of a seasoned and extremely jaded airsofter. I have played since.. Wow 2001ish with AEG’s and a Gspec but before that I used to play somewhere near reading with Rebel Troop with a TM Glock springer and 2 mags at some point in the late 90s. So, while I am no expert. I have seen the sport change and evolve ( perhaps not for the better but hey ho ). I have had most airsoft guns in one form of another, I was there when the chinasoft replicas appeared, making the sport far more accessible and when people suddenly discovered joule creep over the tried and tested.. Just use a 0.2 and you’re golden. I mean I remember when we didn’t even chrono and when crow scarers - £20 for 400 and a wind proof lighter was accepted pyro. ( I wish I knew more about ear protection back then but that’s a different story ) This is mostly about my view now on a Sniper with a bolt action vs a tuned AEG lobbing a heathy stream of BB’s. Then vs now. Back in the good old days everyone had an AEG with the biggest Nicad they could get away with and glorious Hicaps. We all ran Excel 0.2s and if you were fancy, you ran 0.25s and pretended you could really see a difference. No one had any clue about hops and an upgraded gun was a systema gearset, a tn barrel and a bigger spring ( tell me I’m wrong ). Everyone was equal and the sport was definitely more niche, I think had a better community but rose tinted and all that. Certainly, the availability of truly excellent sites was at its prime and the people running the events were doing it for the love of the sport, rather than the financial gain. That all has nothing to do with my ramblings but going back to everyone being equal. A 350 FPS on a 0.2 with a stock hop or biro mod for the roller if you were fancy. All ranged about the same, accuracy.. sure.. ish. When the TM G36 rotary hop appear on the market, there was a clear improvement over the normal M4 and AK versions. But for the most part.. It was a level playing field. Back then, your sniper rifle would have been measured on .2s. So we were probably running around 550fps by the time you had throw in some Maruzen .29 SMG bbs or the 0.5 teflon coated beauties. But the difference in range and the accuracy back then was noticeable. You hugely outranged everyone and could hit with relative ease. There was usually like a 20m engagement range and snipers were few and far between. Not like today when I see 15-20+ of them on a field. Flash forwards to today and my experience last weekend. I did try and help as many noobs as I can with actually setting the hops on their new guns or rentals. That shit seems get massively over looked and I like to help where I can ( not a total asshole ) I dusted off my tuned springer sniper. A gspec with all the innards running at 2.26Jz, new hop, running .45s. I had a sniper friend setup it up and for the last game, busted it out rather than use my perfectly tuned Systema PTW ( yes I am better than you ) and its mags of 0.32.s Now I had a lot of fun and that is probably the reason they do it but the difference between the range on my PTW and the range on my Sniper. When you add in the reduced firing rate and the forced engagement distance of 30m. It just didn’t feel like it was worth the effort anymore. I felt hampered and I got far less kills than I had gotten every previous game ( I’m amazing by the way, so i still got lots ) Yes, there was a wonder sense of satisfaction from landing a scoped shot and seeing it ping off a player but it just wasn’t as affective as the snipers used to be back when everyone else was running AEGs and .2s. Additonally, DMR’s just seem like a scam. People running them and spamming the shots regardless of what the safety brief told them, about how many bbs can be in the air at any time for that extra sweet sweet 70fps. Also far too many people running around with DMR and even normal AEG’s in Ghillies. Bushwookies all of them. Anyway. TLDR. Unless you are a sweat. I just don’t think with how good a tuned AEG is these days, that a spring sniper is worth the effort.

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Hello, Just tried it on some 7.4V 25C vs the 11.1 20C i was using. It is better but does still give me the odd double feed. The mosfet is a Gate PicoAAB micro 3rd gen Active Break Cheers

Hello, I have a weird one. I am going to guess to start its either the hop rubber or the nozzle but before i order both and take it apart, let me get your group opinion. It is running a 11.1 with a mosfet and running at 1.1J. Pretty sure it was short stroked and the hop is a maple leaf with omega nub. I have checked the nub placement and everything externally looks in place and as it should. Rate of fire is nothing extreme. When i fire it on full auto. It will go through the full mag and all the bbs will fly straight and true to the end. When i put it on semi. I get either a double feed, a few flying fine and then the 3rd / 4th having no hop. Put it back to full auto on the same mag and no issues. Tried on two different ammo weights and same issue. What you saying? Cheers

Evri is by far the worst excuse for a courier I have used in the last 5 years. Nothing arrives on time or at all.

Was about to post the same.. This has to be a troll or a fraud... or the armourer to Tears of the Sun

Golden Age of Airsoft was Circa 2005. Everyone ran normal AEGs and a few snipers... Who had hot guns because Joule creep hadnt been invented yet. Running either 0.5 teflon coated or 0.29 Maruzen Super Master Grades. It was a level playing field with no HPA Shit or speed softers. You tuned your AEG to 350 FPS on 0.2s and that was it. You ran ran 0.25 Excel if you were fancy or you hosed 0.2s Hops were stock except for the cut down biro tubes to replace the stock bit. So everyone had fairly equal ranges. BBs were £6 for 4000 and everyone ran 8+ Highcaps. We all have 9.6v 3300 Nicads in bags on stocks or the nunchuck ones somehow crammed into the foregrip. No one was a whiny prick and cried about being lit up .. Because being lit up was how it was. Health and safety was no existant. If you got hurt then you shouldnt have been doing what you were doing to get hurt and everyone knew that. Pyro was crow scarers in tenis balls. £20 for 200. AND.. This is the most important bit. The sites.. There was so many amazing sites. Ex Military, factory, entire industiral areas, shopping centers and TV Stations. They are all houses now but there was a 5 year or so period where the sites were incredible. That and the companies that ran the games were fewer and more focused on the game play. Not turning a profit. Fuck Airsoft now is total shit by comparison

Stop giving these cowboys money and maybe... Just maybe they will take a moment and realise how its time to either pack up and call it a day or invest some time in money into marshalls and a decent event. Same reason Brit Tac isnt going to see a penny from my team again. When a 3rd of one side packs up and leaves on day one. Thats a subtle indication.

I would try one first before committing but if you do decide to go for it. Like said by everyone . Do not mess with the internals except I would recommend getting a decent NPAS. It gives you the ability to tune the power based on the gas and temp of the day. It also lets you run MAPP gas and not blow holes in people. Lastly, you will need one of these for accuracy https://sixgunsmithing.com/2018/03/11/sixg-super-nub-for-marui-gbbr/ But i would really try to borrow one and run a few games. I really didnt enjoy my MWS. The output, wasnt worth the effort. But i did make money on it, when i sold it . So hey ho. TM MP7 GBB is a better platform