RostokMcSpoons

I've had a few emails from BBGuns, Defcon, Socom Tactical etc about Black Friday. So far I've not seen anything that's tickled my fancy (or my credit card) but 'never say never (again)' - I could do with a batch of Bio BBs (0.28/0.32 and some sniper ammo), and I'm always interested in bargains of a pew-pew variety. And a chest rig... quite fancy a cheap one (Viper VX being most likely) Anyone spotted anything useful or interesting?

Special Ops near Olney / Milton Keynes is a nice medium-sized woodland site that a few of us here go to https://www.specialopshq.co.uk/ There's only one more game this year (2nd Dec), but the good news is that there will be a CQB site also opening in early February. That will be near Cranfield / junction 14 of the M1 There are a few more sites up near Northampton, check out the map... https://playairsoft.uk/

The trickiest part of owning GBBRs in my limited experience is getting mags that don't leak (and fixing them if they do). Everything else is quite straightforward. Yes, clean the barrel. Yes, buy some silicone grease and/ or spray for lubing the working parts And setting the hop is probably not something to worry about while you're just plinking in the garden. But on this gun it's really easy anyway 👍

Just picked up on another video on this gat... The RIF you can see now is a 5/10 shot gas shotgun! Could be rather interesting in a CQB environment (you just blasted me with 10 BB's you wanker) There doesn't seem to be much (any?) kick to it, so not sure how much fun it'll be to shoot, but the idea of having the gas reservoir in the gun to allow the use of AEG mags really has the potential to be a game changer in the GBBR market. Anyway, back to the MCGR556, it really does seem to perform well in full-auto... which is nice, but of course doesn't count for all that much in an actual skirmish where single shot for ammo conservation is a real-life necessity.

Yup that could do the trick. Try to find out what the eye relief / view box is like. The only thing with that sight is - you're adding even more RIS to a gun that's already (pun-intended) "RIS Heavy"

Running a gas blowback rifle is much more akin to sniping than anything else, as you're carefully flinging single shots rather than spamming (well, most of the time anyway) For that it's important to be able to see the flight of your BB and then to be able to correct the aim for follow up shots, and for that I've found running an LPVO (typically set at ~3X magnification) is really useful. All the times I've gone back to a red dot I've missed that magnification. (I had bought a Eotech clone specifically for my 416 because it looks brilliant on it) Not the case when I'm running an AEG, where I really prefer the red dot. Edit: Having written that out, I realize a good compromise would be the Eotech paired with a Flip-To-Side magnifier! Well, that's something else to spend some dosh on)

Yeah sorry mate, I think we've all got gen.2 so can't answer your specific questions! Good luck with your new gnu, I've certainly enjoyed owning mine 😃

This looks like an interesting potential addition to my GBBR wishlist... I particularly liked the very nice rate of fire in full-auto which bodes well for semi-auto spam/ CQB / cold weather performance... (though of course maybe that's partly down to it firing at 400fps so it's using a more powerful gas than we'd typically use? Might require an NPAS or very low power gas to keep it in UK limits) Anyone bought one of these yet? I can't find any UK sellers, but you are a resourceful lot so maybe one of you has grabbed one already. They seem to be priced at $400-450 so at the affordable end of the scale.

This is of course fantastic news - it means twice the level of Gun Acquisition Syndrome to be satiated - the family arsenal should end up being enormous! All the best for your recovery, and I hope you enjoy many skirmishes together in the future 🥂

I man-handled his pew-pew (yub-yub etc) The grip (and perhaps also the weight of the Elcan) do a good job of neutralising the normal rearward weight bias of the L85, so it's ergonomic, even if the looks are, as Dan says, a bit... off? Somewhat 'inappropriate' foregrips are nothing new though, apparently...

Special Ops are going to have one more skirmish (Dec 2) and will then go on hiatus as Carlos builds up his new CQB site (which he hopes to open early Feb) ... so I might well feel the need for a new site to visit. South Herts sounds like a good stop-gap Good day on Sunday... well not personally I got killed a little too often, I didn't get many clean or memorable kills, and my left knee occasionally hurts like a bastard, as I exacerbated a football injury. But it ended better than it started... the last couple of games played in twilight (and then almost total darkness) were really quite fun! Here's Dan and me before we got muddy (Quite pleased with my gun's camo paint - a video I watched recently said the most important thing was to camo the gun against your own kit. The colours might be more urban / desert than originally intended, but the overall effect still works well against my multicam)

I agree totally with the shotgun and AEP opinions. M4's might be considered a bit dull and common, but they're popular for a reason, the ergonomics are just so good. Easy to fit optics. Magazines are abundant and cheap. Webbing to carry those mags is easy (army surplus etc) Typically easy to maintain. So I wouldn't rule out an M4 of some description unless you're truly against the idea. If you stay in Airsoft for any length of time you'll end up with one anyway. Thompsons are fun but I'd rule it out for being a bit too niche... With poor ergonomics, and no option to fit an optic. (Optics may not be strictly necessary - though I found mine very useful yesterday when playing in almost darkness - and they're fun to buy) AK's and MP5's are both very cool, I'd go with either of those. Just consider the logistics of your magazines when choosing... Are you going for high or mid cap? Do you prefer to carry them on a belt or chest rig? How 'authentic' do you want your loadout to be in the longer term? You don't want to end in a kit cul-de-sac that might limit you future RIF purchases

I see stack up have an advert at the top or bottom of the pages here. I've enjoyed browsing the interesting and reasonably priced rifs on sale, so a bit disappointed to see the web site is saying it's closed now. Will this be the case for long?

Well that was fun. A superb launch, and two RUDs for the price of one 😄 Given the launch pad looks in better nick than last time, and the ship didn't break itself during the launch (knocking out its own engines) hopefully we won't have to wait long before the next attempt

I did some testing with my primary gat for Sunday's game, gave me a chance to experiment with my slingster. I haven't got a proper spare sling attachment on stock end of the gun at the moment, but I threaded it through a built-in loop on my PTS stock, and had it sitting on the outside. And then I tried the 'proper' method, and damn, yes, the gun hangs much tighter to the body (especially when it's basically vertical), it's much easier to get it tucked under the left arm to completely free up the pistol hand too... I'll definitely train myself to stick to it now. (And I'll order a QD sling attachment for my stock)

I'll be doing some pre-flight checks of my own, testing for Sunday at Spec Ops. Thanks to family stuff and football injuries I've missed out on a few games recently... Looking forward to this! Looks like it'll be a tad showery in the morning but a bright afternoon (until the sun goes down at 16:07 anyway, damn the clocks going back) See you there?

Update for 3 pm ET: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the second Starship launch is postponed to no earlier than Saturday, Nov. 18 to replace a grid fin actuator on the launch stack, according to an update Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter. 24hr delay, so 1300 GMT Saturday (2 hour launch window, I think)

On a side note (and possibly somewhat related), all the sold / completed ads remain in a user's wishlist for every and every and ever. The option to 'remove from wishlist' disappears from the ad once it's completed. Which isn't helpful, it it stayed active then I could at least clear up my wishlist manually.

Is it confirmed tomorrow?? Yeah I'll definitely watch it whenever it happens (praying it's not Saturday night or Sunday) Edit: This news item says Friday at 13:00 GMT Elon Musk might be a gigantic twat in many respects, but SpaceX is brilliant

Not from me, that exhausts my limited knowledge of this gun, sadly. Good luck with sorting it out!

@TheFull9 it's weird, I know that's the right way to use a sling, but I've got too used to doing it the wrong way. Maybe I need to wander around the house with a slung rifle until it feels normal. A few days might do the trick Separately... with a heartfelt 'pretty please', could @LzChase please fix the typo in the thread title, it triggers my OCD (or something similar) every time I see this thread show up on the activity page

Caveat: I'm no expert, as my gun isn't running properly, but I have some experience... You might not have sufficient pressure in the system. That will cause it cycle incompletely so the sear never engages. Make sure the bottle has at least 800psi in it. Note that unlike other HPA gats, for this the bottle doesn't need a regulator on it, the gun does it itself. If it's still not working correctly then adjust the settings in the gun so the pressure (via the internal regulation) is increased.