TheFriendlyBro

I don't have a car, so it's either pay my life savings away at bunker 51 or travel for hours on end to some place on the edge of london. Neither of which are appealing, so pretty much not played at all since my stay here.

Just wondering but have you been to Bunker 51 by yourself? Seems like you have to email them in order to find out what the price would be.

Hey there.

Which rail is that? Like I mentioned before, the one I had was only 12cm long and wasn't long enough for the entire handguard. Is that a 15.5/16cm long one?

That rail looks longer than the one I had.

https://gunfire.com/en/products/m4a1-ar15-type-handguard-rail-1152222031.html

Darn, outta stock. Thanks for the link!

Classic army metal mid caps , can’t praise them enough ! all I ever use for the ‘old school’ look , been using them 15+yrs without any problems . Should think I’ve run them in pretty much all brands of guns(I have a very short attention span when it comes to owning guns) so I think I’ve owned an example of all the brands at one time or another ! 🤦‍♂️😆😆

I'll check em out! Hopefully they work with a Specna.

You could pickup up some M16 STANAG Flashmags.. I use Nuprol ones and have done for last 2years with no issues in a few of my guns. 

In terms of buying from them, I'm guessing they will always be picked up by customs?

This might sound really dumb but are there any legal issues with importing RIFS? Long as you got a valid defence, I hope it's cool.

I’d think without a doubt you’ll get caught by customs , but as long as you’ve a valid defence there’s no reason you can’t import a RIF , just remember to to dot every single i and cross every fricking T on your order info ! 🤬

I've bought RIF's from HK retailers long ago and had no issue with a UKARA defence.

Saying that, as I try to get back into Airsoft after 10 years I've had issues recently just trying to get bits and bobs from abroad. (See thread in UK Law Channel)
But even then it would have been much simpler had I an active UKARA defence. (Even though it shouldn't be needed for parts)

As Druid says, include as much info during the order. I can't personally recall if ASJ gives you an option to include your skirmisher number or not. 

Yes....and no.

Have a google for "airsoft Springfield TRP", there was one ready made as an RA-Tech collaboration but I'm not sure if it's still available. Alternatively Guarder made a TRP conversion kit for a Tokyo Marui 1911.

I use 2 rubble sacks, one over each end of the gun box, then wrap in lots of tape.

Parcel force 48, usually costs between £15 and £20. When they ask what it is, just say sports equipment.

Parcel force 48, will take and cover / insure you if you say “low power air weapon” they don’t take ‘toy guns” and you are covered if you say sporting equipment 

Think I’m the same as all above , original gun box(never chuck them away) , bin bags and a shit load of ductape then parcelforce48 .

Given it sounds like you have spare pews lying around why not take this as an opportunity to do the tinkering yourself?

I think at the moment, I'd much prefer paying a professional to have it looked over, in case I miss anything and to have some advice on upgrades.

Agreed, Deans is the good enough + common enough solution.

XT-60 is common enough on RC batteries but they tend to be blocks rather than sticks, so (assuming you don't want to rewire airsoft batteries yourself) it's really a question of whether you can source batteries with that connector which will fit in the available space.

although an argument in favour of xt60 if you solder your own connections, is nobody is going to be sponging/stealing your batteries

Deans and XT’s are on a par when it comes too power transfer but as the others have said deans are so much easier to source already fitted to batt’s and what not . In comparison to basically every other connector you could think of Tamiya’s (both sizes) are an utter pile of wank when it comes to transfer rates there just so inefficient in comparison . So no don’t have one of those fitted ! 😉

Do you like the look of it ? that’s the real question , if yes you do then get it , if not that sold on it then don’t . As you will often read on this forum unless you spend some serious beer tokens near ALL the AEG’s in a particular price range are much of a muchness . After playing for waaaaaayyyyy too long I’ve come to the conclusion if a gun is from one of the ‘main Airsoft manufacturers’ then the deciding factor are the aesthetics of the gun and not it’s possible performance as basically they’ll all perform the same . 👍

Having got the original G&G UMG, the plastic certainly feels more sturdy than the Umerex's i poked at on a site that used them for rentals.  But for the price difference either will do ya fine.  Mine did need the hop unit modding though, as the slider was so lose it would undo itself.  Simple fix, a washer put under the bolt that holds it fixed it fine, and it hops 0.28's with ease stock.

Just the general observation that anything remotely assault-toy related coming into the country is highly likely to get stopped at the moment, and a firearms declaration required.  You're looking at weeks-to-months to get it, assuming that you can actually produce a defence for importing it.

https://www.davescustomairsoft.co.uk/vf1-lm4std-colt-m4a1-carbine-replica.html?search=M4A1&sort=p.price&order=DESC

So basic rule of thumb, don't mess around with your collection unless it's broken? I'm interested in learning more about upgrading but unsure where to begin and what's what with each different airsoft gun.

And to answer your question Rogerborg, yes! But not as many times as I'd like. Getting more into collecting than playing.

Generally speaking the very first upgrade recommendations are the hop rubber and barrel usually (most of the cases depending on the gun of course)

But only if you're extremely unhappy with the stock performance and have a good confirmation of certain products that will 100% work and being truly an upgrade 

Thanks for the information DBGXXI!

Flawless answer.

A couple of notes. First, sellers shouldn't be flogging these things in the UK without downgrading the power.  However, as a curious legal quirk, you're the one committing the offence by buying a Section 5 prohibited firearm, not them for selling it.  So, yes, get it downgraded, something that will already have been done to even the cheapest CYMAs.

Second, I'm getting the distinct impression that you don't actually play airsoft, and so I'm rather expecting a followup question along the lines of "What's the best way to re-activate a de-activated AK?  For research purposes."

Thanks for the response, Impulse!

Possibly not quite flawless; Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, has a 1J limit across both semi- and full-auto.

Only answer your getting !

I think it is part of the boys range for kids and spring powered which explains the low power.

So, are there any good websites that allow pre-order for upcoming TM airsoft guns?

@Skara - Quite honestly with your 1J limit, I'm surprised that all the serious airsofters in Italy aren't just running around with stock TM recoils.

TM has a reputation of being overpriced af here, mostly because people are so fucking obsessed with "FuLl MeTaL" guns.

They think a pot metal receiver is better than a polymer one and it'll give them 50 extra metres of range.

So a TM Hi-Cycle M4 CRW that will most likely outlast your car is shit (even though it pumps out a retarded ROF on a 7.4) but a -insert truly overpriced brand here- that shits the bed on its first game is good!

Logik, I know..

I'll be honest, if I didn't like tinkering with stuff I would have bought a TM CRW and swapped the hop rubber for a ML (yes I'm a ML fanboy) and called it a day.

I like tinkering so I built my own out of a specna

Decent enough, but I wouldn’t go back to one now. Specna is still only a ‘low to mid range’ brand as I’d call it, but for similar money you get so much more bang for buck. 
 

Just like Dyatlov said at Chernobyl - not great, not terrible. 

All my stuff is functional and not for hanging on walls.

It's  used,cleaned and stowed away.

Except the mk23. That has a place near the back door ready to annoy squirrels lol

👍🙂

Regards 

I'm with you, I like a nice pistol

recently got a FN 5-7 and a shadow 2

I think a PPQ will be next