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As mentioned, depends on play style, amount of shooting, RIF etc. I have never got through 2x 1300 MAH batteries in 1 day, I switched at lunch to be proactive and ensure I didn't run out and have to change in the field (another thing I then didn't have to carry, or think about). When running an aeg now, I use a titan 3000mah and just don't have to think about it, they have a lot of MAH for the physical space they take up. Not a problem at the moment, but cold can really impact the performance of batteries, so in the winter (5 degrees and lower), give some thought to your batteries temp as well.

There is a good video by the heresy group on setting up baofengs, it's good as it talks from an average airsofters view, mindset, base knowledge.

Point shooting does work at close range, but once you get over about 10 metres (which does happen at cqb sites) you start missing on your first shot and walking them in. That turns times you have the drop on someone into a gun fight etc. If you're close enough and have a red dot, point shoot, if your further way and have a red dot, aim. Without the red dot all you can do is guestimate and walk them in. For me, red dots are all about increasing the first round hits. As for the best one available now? the holy warrior is very good for a clone and knocks all other eotech clones that I have experience with out of the park. I haven't used the sotac one. When I started airsoft I bought lots of things thinking, it doesn't matter if it doesn't have x, y or z feature as I'll never use that. I won't do an impression etc. And then later I wanted these features. The nv mode on the holy warrior is good enough. Also the screen protector that comes with it is great.

Have you checked out alpkit? I haven't used their hardshells but they have a good rep and the stuff I have from them has been good and excellent value for money (not cheap, not silly money, just good value). Otherwise my question is, do you really NEED a hardshell? Most fabrics will fail when they have rigs/rucksacks on top or you get as wet but from sweat. I've done loads of events, weekenders etc at the trees and other horrible wet venues and honestly only needed a hardshell once. Often water resistant jackets, windshirts etc are enough, they may get damp but movement keeps you warm and when you aren't moving, put warm/dry kit on.

Every day is a school day. Yeah, the hammer is coming out quite punchy, about 4 mm

Had a dissapointing session with my MWS on Saturday. Temperature was about 10 degrees celsius (night game). Mags were gassed up and weighed 476 grams each ( with a cut down magpul on it. I filled and weighed before attending the site). Go to confirm hop, red dot zero etc at the chrono and struggled to get the 35 bbs out of each one, felt super sluggish. Gas was ultra air. All mags are gen 3 and the issue was consistent across all mags. Only gas available onsite with a plastic nozzle was abbey green 144a and it was even worse. didn't chrono as it's performance was so terrible I wouldn't and couldn't field that. MWS is pretty much internally stock, 2 modifications for internals is the supersix nub and some 10 pence pieces in the buffer to prevent bolt over travel and "tighten" up the charging handle (as per olly talks airsoft). Barrel, hop unit, bolt etc is all stock mws. Going to try abbey red gas - any other ideas?

Welcome to the sport! You can find good deals on here, however there are plenty of not so great deals and some pretty awful "deals" as well, though the Mack's thread is pretty good at calling them out. My advice would be to not buy something someone has upgraded. whether upgrades are good or not is largely based on how good the quality of the workmanship and most people aren't as good as they think.

Depends on the RIF in question, some are expensive because they're rare, some because they are good. I always see that these rifs, kit etc are there to be enjoyed and if you aren't getting the maximum amount of enjoyment out of them.....why bother? To some that will be keeping them as a collectors piece and to others fielding them. If they are just wall hangers.....do they need to work or just look pretty?

Great question but it will give you a range of answers. Typically people (airsofters included) will tell you to get what they have got, ultimately they have made their purchases based on the circumstances and what is most important to them. Be warned I am a TM fanboy. A TM MP7 is almost certainly one of the easiest and best gas guns to run, I wouldn't normally recommend it as a first purchase but as you have it they are considered great. You have just come out of the winter period and winter (cold) will always be the struggle time for any gas system, though the TM MP7 is probably one of the few guns that can handle it, I reckon in the coming months it will really shine. I'd recommend holding onto it for now, it's a fantastic RIF that will keep on trucking. TM NGRS are and can be extremely reliable, without upgrades they'll last ages and do a fine job. They are one of the few AEGs (battery powered) that have features such as the bolt stop (DAS GBLS do as well, as do a couple of others but I don't know them). They don't need upgrading and initially I'd recommend you don't upgrade or if you must, do a minimal amount. Often upgrades make very little real difference, cost a fortune and done by the wrong people can make a RIF worse. Camoraids are one of the few NGRS specialists and if they weren't so expensive someone I'd probably use (too tight, do it myself), I have heard of camo raid upgraded guns going down and the warranty service has been great. Think of it like a car, a standard car such as a ford focus will go for ages without breaking down, a specialist race car squeezing every ounce of performance will require more maintenance and is likely to break more often. An NGRS with a slightly upgraded spring, maybe a tighter bore barrel will beef up the fps a bit and not push the performance too much. FPS doesn't equal range, but I find it can be the difference in people feeling hits.....or not. You will be able to get similar performance, possibly even slightly better in some terms, from a standard AEG of a more modern design (Such as the Specnas or the VFC Avalon range) that come with a mosfet pre fitted for less money. However my feeling is that I have owned my TM NGRS's for around 10 years now and they are still some of the best performers on the field, they have had an upgrade here and a fix there, but they are the same base gun. From what I have seen some other AEGs lose their performance and then struggle to get it back so I think they are a great investment. Something else to think about is what do you like the look of? Performance isn't everything. The sport is to have fun and enjoy the experience and I can do that with an NGRS M4, some people love their weird and random RIFS. Could the saving be spent on other things that will bring you more fun (such as wine and women)? If I had to buy everything again from scratch, a TM NGRS would be one of the first things I bought and a TM MP7 or MWS wouldn't be far behind it. I wouldn't get a standard AEG at all.

This looks relevant for the conversation. I am not a legal expert by any means. Good luck and hopefully the over zealous coppers don't pursue it too far, they are already very keen to crack down on all forms of legal firearms ownership.

I have owned one previously (not anymore) and I am pretty sure it is molded like that, I could be wrong as it has been a few years. If you're looking for extra battery capacity I'd recommend either a sopmod style crane stock (not ngrs specific) and run a crane stock battery, there is a 2600mah splot crane stock battery (7.4 lipo) that fits or look at the titan range of batteries, they seem to have a tonne of Mah in a smaller physical size than any other battery and pick a stock accordingly. If it's that you like the vltor style, then I have no recommendations.

Did you buy it second hand or from a shop? As its for an NGRS it is from the CQBR line, this line of NGRS has it's own range of (rubbish) batteries that most people get rid of and use lipos. Some people convert the stock and some people just get rid of the propriatory connection and add a deans connector to the end of the stock tube. What this means is that the stock isn't like the real version, it's designed to take the special batteries for the NGRS range which are fixed, solid things. Here is a link to the battery. They are generally considered as awful and I would not recommend buying it. https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/tokyo-marui-84v-1300mah-battery-for-recoil-sopmod-m4cqbr416devgru417 I don't know how the real version works, but the sides that you referenced shouldn't come off the ngrs version and any seller would be within their rights to say, " I listed it as an NGRS stock and thats what it is, if you assumed it could do something else that's not my fault". If you bought it from a shop you should have some cover from the distance selling regs (assuming you bought online). What are you trying to achieve?

I have gen 3 mags and have had a bunch of trouble gassing them up. So far I have only been successful with ultra air (which hasn't seemed great, gets me through a mag, maybe a mag and a half but not the amazing number of shots some users get) and abbey 144a gas. I have heard the thing about gen 3 mags having valves that don't like higher pressure but suspect it's the same source that @KirbyHCI has seen it (some random youtube video), but I haven't been able to say with certainty whether it's the gas or the nozzle on the gas canisters that is the issue. I am really hoping it's the nozzles not fitting and finding the "right" one will solve my issues. So far i have tried nuprol (some got in), propane adapter (none got in), Ultra Air (acceptable enough results) and Abbey 144a. Makes me apprhensive about using it in the cold though. I have tried purging my mags, but as I am not 100% sure of the issue, not sure if they have actually purged. I have also watched the ollytalks airsoft youtube video about the mag tilt and spoken with other more experienced gbbr users onsite about gassing mags, getting tips etc.

From what I understood, one of the "nice" things about movies using airsoft guns is they don't need a qualified armourer on set, (who generally work as contractors so charge high prices) but when they use real firearms with blanks they do and so it's much more expensive. Reads like free advertising off the rust incident plus turning a "we did it the cheap method" to a "we took the morally superior high ground, so cut us some slack if you spot 6mm written on the guns". Both are pretty poor from a taste point of view.

This! Most "upgrades" cock up a well engineered rif. Use it, decide what and if you think the RIF is lacking. It's very easy to focus on "upgrades" that actually make your RIF worse. How does your RIF compare in performance, side by side, to someone else's RIF? Considering how you play, do you then need to "upgrade" your RIF. Generally, I'd say save your money and put it towards a new primary RIF. Not that you need it, but in x amount of weeks you're going to get bored of your current RIF and want something that's different, an SMG, a gbbr, an AK etc. don't buy a back up RIF, when buying, get something you'll love more than your current one. The only thing I will say, is that if you aren't getting the range you want now and it's been sat there with the hop on doing nothing for 4 years, a new hop rubber wouldn't be a bad move (but a good idea to compare to someone elses range would be sensible in making the decision as to whether this is needed now). If your FPS is below 300 on a 0.2 gram bb, then that would make me take action sooner than I have recommended. Peq boxes are nowadays, pretty much purely for looks (I run them) but even if you had night vision, some sites are banning IR lasers and there are so many players with NV, it's a giveaway of your location. A red dot sight (and screen protector) is sensible, if only to improve your first shot hits and use 0.25 or 0.3 gram bbs.

This seems to be common with v3 mags, I have v3 mags and have had a similar issue. My "work around" has been to use ultra air gas and abbey. Nuprol has been hit and miss and using propane was a complete waste. My suspicions are around the nozzle on the gas not fitting into the valve quite right, rather than the gas itself. Add onto that I'm a gbbr noob and I didn't want to mess with it over cold games, so just getting it back into action.

Think the gaol at Oakham does a pistol and shotgun night game and they allow gbbrs to them (confirm before attending!). I honestly haven't really felt out gunned with a gbbrs vs aeg players, maybe it's the site I attend. If you can't score a hit with 30 bbs you should probably move. I would love a gbbr and support weapon (actual support weapons, not an mp5 with a box mag) only event, ideally a 24+ hour event. Did a filmsim descent game that was an honor based 30 round cap and support weapons then became hugely important as did squads working together I haven't been involved in a forum based skirmish, I think we are probably all quite spread out, logistics would be a pain.

I was NATO scum!!!! This was the first time friendly fire wasn't really an issue for me.....I was only shot by my own team once....maybe twice which in comparison was about 1/5th of how it was last time! The start time slipped, but so did their finish time which I think we pre planned (but not announced) to ensure more of the game was in the dark.

Did another game at gunman tuddenham and it seems I'm about to be a cheerleader for them again. Thoroughly impressed with the management team, ran a relatively complex game with a more advanced rule set, objective style etc and frankly they smashed it out of the park. The site has clearly invested in their terrain and made good use of the features already there. The variation of experience available has improved and consistent with what they're advertising. The game play was good, objectives well thought out and hit taking/sportsmanship very high as well. Add onto that, my little group played effectively as a team and it was about perfect.

Nothing to add other than they are almost as painful to work with as they are without. I found it was an absolute sod to fit, not bend and mess up and well, pretty annoying. You might be able to get your hands on one but I would imagine they'll be a tough one to source, easy to lose and lots of people like front wiring rear wired guns.

@alxndrhllmy god it's sexy though. That is the only mp5 that could sway me......are you going to do the inverted peq and the vert grip?