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  1. Gen 3 doesn't have an NPAS built in like the Gen 2 does, but may have some better components inside, so ya takes ya choice on that. It will be happier in the sunshine than in the winter, just cos it's gas (and not a TM MWS?). The hop adjustment seemed to creep on mine, but it's super-easy to adjust back (or maybe the hop rubber was changing its performance - getting oily or cold or dirty?) And the latest two mags I bought for it (the black rather than grey versions) both leaked when I received them. Both got fixed - temporarily. One is now useless because I can't seem to fit it back together properly (and will be a donor if/when I buy an HPA adapter from Airtac) and the other had a slow leak last time I checked. So, when buying extra mags, do some research because it may be the grey ones are the ones to get. Or some old stock or BCM ones. Gas mags are heavy and are more likely to jump out of pouch when you run - make sure they're nice and snug or have retaining bungees / covers. But... I love my '416, it's the coolest gun I own.
  2. Excellent, now just pop it into the post to me, there's a good chap!
  3. Oh yeah, me too. Has to be the UK army spec with the simple rear sight though, amirite? I believe the reason they get bad reviews is it's easy to break the nozzle or knock it off line if you slam-load a mag with the slide forwards. If you always have the slide locked back for reloads to keep it out of harm's way, it'll be fine. (At least that was my understanding, there might be other stuff too) So yeah, we share two guns on our wishlist 😋👍
  4. Ollie Talks Airsoft does a good video on it (it's a big thumbs-up) (Oh man, I still can't process... ) There was one at a bargain price on these classifieds a little while ago, I'm still kicking myself for not buying it, I'm a big fan of 'em too.
  5. I've bought a couple of British army smoke grenade pouches off eBay, £7 for two.... Hopefully they'll do the job
  6. Ah, so very appropriate on Valentine's day.. I often find that in a tight spot, rapid deployment is often a problem... "Hang about ladies, I just have to untangle this". 😁 Yeah, done sort of grenade pouch would be the very thing, but I'm one of them poors now, so repurposing stuff is my go-to thing. I did find this which is cheap enough Viper TACTICAL Elite Grenade Pouch https://amzn.eu/d/0K4Vsln The retention isn't much different from my SA80 pouch though! ... Hmmm reading the reviews they're not that impressed with the retention, I need to find one with a velcro flap
  7. Well my primers turned up yesterday... PullTheTrigger (an airgun and fieldcraft shop) charged me £26 for 200 inc p&p. They're the only place that I could find that had stock of the 615's I'm going to use an SA80 mag pouch, with the drawstring pulled tight around the top of the grenade... seems like it'll hold - that'll be alright, won't it? Or are there any dirt-cheap pouches I can source to do the job (that aren't crap)?
  8. You have to put a price on every sale "dem's da rulez"
  9. Well, it's moot for the moment - game cancelled due to incoming inclement weather. (Thanks @Gunboat Diplomat) At least my knee will have some time to recover, and my primers will definitely actually have arrived!
  10. If I'm there I'll be sure to ask Carlos about that Enjoy your shooting!
  11. Thanks guys. Great input, much appreciated. I was actually expecting the spec ops cqb to open before the outdoor site, so it'd get a run on hard surfaces, but the thought of having a method to wrinkle out some hard-core tent campers does have sooooo much appeal I'll want to give it a go at least! (I have feeling I won't be going though, I've got a head cold and it's getting worse not better - the idea of a snotty nose inside a face mask is really not that appealing. Plus my knee is super fragile, every chance I'd have to drop out at some point, and I really can't afford to spend £30 on a part day 😢)
  12. Yeah the "use cases" I have for it at the outdoor site of spec ops are: - the kill houses in Ping Ping City. Very tight areas, the grenade will only be travelling a couple of feet around a corner on each throw - tents at BBC. The tents all have windows that can be approached, it'll be a drop rather than a throw into them - the church. If we play the game where attacks are only allowed through the church door, there'll be a stack of people queuing up next to it to get through. The temptation to yeet will be strongest at this point, but if I can get close enough for an underarm toss then I'll get a stack of kills in one go (if they take the hit)
  13. Just doom-scrolling through my YT feed, and a review of a similar grenade suggests there's a fair chance it won't go off unless it hits something hard. So bouncing it off noggins will just have to be done! Anyway, as YT seems to know what I'm typing elsewhere, I'm just off to make a nice tinfoil hat and pair of gloves
  14. Underarm, eh? It's just not cricket sir!
  15. So if my rather knackered knee settles down in time, I'm hoping to be playing outdoors at Spec Ops on Sunday. Yay! Hopefully I'll get to run my Tippmann HPA in anger for the first ever, and also it'll be my first chance to throw my recently won multi-shot grenade around. (Assuming the primers arrive on schedule) Now I've not seen much grenade use - at Spec Ops it's almost always smokes, just the occasional thunderflash going off too... I don't really know why, they're mentioned as fine to use in the briefing (after checking and approval). So I don't really know what's good and what's bad in the use of 'nades. It's a big ol' chunk of metal so I won't be heroically yeeting it any distance, and neither will I drop it blind over the top of a barrier where it might bounce off a noggin, but on the other hand I'm not going to look inside every tent before I chuck it in, as that would rather defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? So what are the do's and don'ts? Titled with thanks to these fine lads
  16. Reported the piece of shit (without even having to visit his channel thankfully)
  17. Really, really, really need to put your stuff through a spell checker if you're going to sell things. I'd not have much faith in someone who can't spell 'coming' and sticks apostrophes into plurals, and generally doesn't bother with details - like grammar, punctuation and spelling. But maybe that's just me!
  18. Watch out, there's quite a difference between the various Holy Warrior sights... most of them are on a par with the Sotac (that I own), it's just the more expensive S1 that is a level above. I had a thread about the various Eotech clones, where the debate didn't quite get heated as such, but rose above room temperature, where the main bone of contention was the acceptable level of parallax on a sight. I contend(ed) that parallax might look horrible at short range, but once you're at 15m+ then it's really not worth worrying about given the inherent accuracy limits of our BB guns. I empirically remain 'unfussed' as the camo-painted-to-match-the-gun sight on my fave AEG is an £8 Eotech knock-off from Action Hobbies' boneyard! But I have noticed at least one of my red dots isn't great when shifting viewpoint vertically, even when focusing out at distance. So ... something to bear in mind. Good video here... I've just bought yet another cheapo boneyard sight - a T1/2 clone to replace a dying one from my collection, but if I ever spend any 'proper' money again on a better sight - it'll be a Vortex Crossfire. https://www.opticswarehouse.co.uk/vortex-crossfire-2-moa-red-dot-sight
  19. The C7 build inspired me to put my Classic Army M16 back together and rattle-can it (again) ... I might add some more stripes to break up the stock a bit more and add some extra contrast, but it came out quite well considering it's cold and windy outside so it wasn't ideal conditions. Now the only problem is that darned thing isn't feeding from my Lonex mags The feed nozzle is pushing down enough to release the normal 4 BB's through (which fall out when I release the mag) so it's not the mag positioning that's the problem - I guess the cylinder's nozzle isn't moving back far enough? I can see it move when I fire. Bah humbug. @Egon_247 you might like the new FW video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPsgXZpSXI Ian's preferred version very much in line with yours
  20. Yes it is, so just copying images and posting them in unedited 'willy-nilly' will soon eat that all up. I use the ms windows snipping tool, paste it into paint.net, save as jpeg to a folder and insert from file. That way my images drop from multi megabytes down to a few hundred K at most. If there's a more efficient way to do it (and I'm sure there is, I think there are other screen grab utilities that will shrink the final image and reformat), I'm all ears!
  21. Ukraine would like to have a word, they think you might be.... Useful
  22. Yes it does, but as Mr Flange notes, it does make the hop rubber slippery and therefore less effective (and consistent). So you can do one of these 1) Not give a stuff about accuracy, cos it's a pistol anyway, and use oily gas to keep the mags good without any further faff 2) Use maintenance gas between games to look after the mags, vent them before a game day outside the gun, use dry gas during games 3) Use dry gas all the time and sort the mags when they go wrong (if you're ok with taking them apart and lubing the seals) I've tended towards option 1 with pistol mags, but option 3 with the rifle mags... but the last couple I bought aren't holding gas nearly as well as the first couple, and stripping one of the mags has left it ... buggered? So might move to option 3 there.
  23. Nope. (as in - no, that's not what the OP was asking) I'm thinking there might be some mileage in this - a change in the mechanical noise might make quite a psychological impact on the firer.
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