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As I can't yet work out how to disassemble the gun (beyond splitting the receiver), I've so far only looked down the barrel from the muzzle end, illuminating with my phone's light through the feed tube (with a stick of paper positioned to bounce the light around the corner - it works though) I can't see any obvious dirt in the barrel. I can tell I've got the hop all the way off, but when I apply hop it seems to be being applied from the top correctly, and it seems aligned. There's a thread on another forum which mentions the possibility that the nozzle doesn't align correctly with the barrel until it's forced into the correct position at the last moment as it moves forward, and that therefore some of the air may be thrusting on the bb from the side rather than directly behind. Unfortunately the thread hasn't been updated since the idea was postulated in 2018, but if it's true I've no idea that would get fixed It has (allegedly) been upgraded with a Prommy tight bore. Maybe it needs a barrel swap. I guess I could stick in the stock barrel from F2000 or my AR15 to see if that makes any difference... once I figure out how to get to it!

Vomiting may be the correct word to use, the darned thing shoots fantastically "PEW PEW PEW" but it has no accuracy, everything curves off to the right at 15m. For a gun with a TDC hop unit, I was not expecting any problems there.

It's a little South of Northampton, but Special Ops at Hollington Wood nr Olney nr Milton Keynes is a smallish, friendly woodland site The location details are in this page... https://www.specialopshq.co.uk/contact Carlos and his marshals will make you very welcome but feel free to give me a shout too 😊 As for a good M4, quite a few of us are running Double Eagle M90x and are happy with them, plenty of threads on this forum about them. Carlos sells the 907c on site for £220 (should be less than that but the stock shortages are boosting prices)

The engine in the asg scorpion is a custom factory fit thing. It'd be fine. It's moot now, I bought the Tippmann! Wow that thing is fun to shoot. I had in the back of my mind to one day get a gbbr, this is going to scratch the itch with its dramatic noise and recoil. I just hope the range can exceed my DE. Yes the scuba tank has plenty of time before the next inspection due. Small problem is I need to smuggle the gun into the house as the wife doesn't know. What the hell can I say if she spots the scuba tank 🤣🤣🤣 it'll have to live in the boot of the car 😆

Thanks Adolf. I looked at the Scorpion again yesterday. It wouldn't shoot. He plugged in the air and it kept coming out of the gun on the first attempt. Pulling out the line and reattaching it, nothing came out. It was a borrowed tank with its own regulator, could that have caused the issue? The battery was charged, could hear the solenoid clicking when the trigger was pulled. It's probably something simple but I think that's rather killed that option! Anyway the result of that is I found my heart says I want the Tippmann or the Wolverine. And the Wolverines are sold out everywhere. I may be looking at a used Tippmann v2 today, it comes with a few bits and pieces and minor upgrades: tight bore barrel and bucking. And a big secondary air cylinder to keep in the car... Problem is I'll only be able to shoot it at short range, so I'll get no idea if it will really outshoot my DE enough to justify the outlay

Yeah, thanks, I saw that a few days ago, already put a low-ish offer in and had it rejected 🤪 I'll wait to the last moment and snipe it, and if that doesn't work there's another motor going at ~£30 that I can pick up (Matrix 3000, no idea whether they're any good) And if all that fails, well tbh I don't mind too much. I found I can pick up an ICS at £41 from Action Hobbies, which is here in MK.

I've been comparing the Tippmann vs Wolverine vs Scorpion last night... I'm not so tempted with a DIY approach, as my "bedroom tech-ing" is still at the "hit and miss" stage. I wouldn't want to mess up a decent gun. Bear with me while I think out aloud here... There's already a number of advantages for the Tippmann: 1) Obviously I get to carry on with my existing mag pouches 2) I can use my existing high cap mags (I like laying down suppressing fire) 3) It's metal 4) It has recoil. 5) It's relatively cheap to buy new (£470 with tank, line, regulator) And the disadvantages 1) Relatively limited RoF (no more than my DE M906, at 15rps) 2) Unsure of max range With the Scorpion the advantages are 1) Long range even with super-compact gun (65m on video I've seen) 2) Lightweight (polymer) 3) Price... the used one I'm looking at is at a reasonable discount from new Disadvantages 1) New pouches required, maybe a whole separate belt rig for ease of swapping when changing guns 2) Polymer. Yeah I know the real gun is too 3) Mid cap mags. I'll probably need to buy an Odin, I guess? (If I can find one) The Wolverine I know a bit less about but it can be summed up I think as 1) Bestest 2) Mostest expensivest I like the metal construction of my DE so I'd like more of that feel please. Yeah the scorpion might be realistic and very solidly made (except for the stock when extended, that is a tad loose), but steel > polymer unless there's a good reason (pistol gas cooldown, weight) The recoil on the Tippmann is actually a big advantage. Perhaps the worst thing about HPA is that without the physicality of the piston slamming around, the two I tried are impressively smooth, but feel very much like devices for throwing BBs rather than pew-pew guns. It's perhaps a tiny psychological difference, but it was there for me. The mid caps are an issue. What's the point of having a gun firing at 20+ rps if you've only got 300 rounds to fire across several mags? I've been tempted with the idea of mid caps because I don't like winding, and I don't like rattles, but I've got somewhat used to the winding (might buy a Lonex flashmag to try that out), and the rattles can be mostly avoided by either having mags totally brimmed or completely empty. And I try to move slow-and-smooth most of the time anyway. (It suits my age and fitness!) Maybe I need to slow down a little. The scorpion is local and good, but not my only option, even at its reduced price point. But I'm going to test shoot it later, we'll have to see if the money in my pocket is fully on fire...

Thanks very much Hunka, I've looked at some text reviews of the Wolverine and indeed it seems to be the very thing. Quite expensive though, especially as I'd want the Milspec version. I'm comparing the cost of that versus the ~£500 cost of the all in bundle for the scorpion, and it makes it a tricky decision. How often do the MTWs turn up on the used market?

This has been prompted by the perfect storm of me trying a couple of HPA guns at the weekend (and being impressed, natch), an advert for a used Scorpion appearing, a better-paid job on the immediate horizon, and my natural desire to be one of the cool kids a total w*nker with an accurate-at-long-range, high-ish RoF pew pew. That I won't need to / be tempted to break / upgrade. I think it's acknowledged the Scorpion is a pretty damned good gun, whether it's HPA or AEG, and I like 'compact', but it will mean different mag pouches etc (so likely a second webbing setup) whereas if I go with M4 then my current stuff works (apart from somewhere to stash the bottle). Oh, and a divorce if my wife finds out the price 😕 Are there any good HPA M4s that work out-of-the-box, and have the same reliability, range etc that I should look for? Also, an ecumenical matter. I bought a gun last week. And now I'm thinking of spending *lots* this week. Is this how it's going to be? Is this how bankruptcy starts?

I went old-school-ish and bought Austrian Paratrooper boots. I can't fault the ankle protection and the build quality, and they've even been quite comfortable, but they weigh an absolute ton. Well, a kilo or more each I think. The advantage is you can hose them off if they're muddy without stressing about it, but the disadvantage is they must be sapping my limited fitness, so I'll be in the market for some lighter boots at some point. Are all these Cordura style boots ok for wet / muddy conditions? And do they have adequate ankle support?

I wouldn't have minded the shotgun hit so much, except we traded shots at the much the same moment, with me firing first as I was pre-aimed, waiting for him to show himself (he'd shot me from the same point a couple of minutes earlier). I took my hit, he didn't take his 😕

I think on balance we're all better off if I don't post a pic of my very upper thigh on here but it has a triple welt pattern from a gas shotgun hit (from about 5m)... luckily it's fading away now. The other thigh has a big impressive bruise but that's from football... I managed to get myself shot in the palm of my hand at absolute point-blank range and that hurt like a bugger at the time. There's not a mark to show for it

I think pretty much any non-M4's are inherently cooler, but if I was only allowed one gun to play airsoft with for ever more, it'd be my DE M906C, or something similar to it. It's just ergonomically so good* and compact (including it's relatively low height profile when aiming over the top of obstacles, or when crawling), it's all-round great. So I can't really argue against having a collection of them. * I wish the fire selector was a 90deg version, and a little more positive.

This is a silly argument to be having, but I tried independently to find out which of you was right. While COAL is definitely a thing, I couldn't find any evidence for COL, it's CAL on guns on all the images I've seen. So if I can be bold and be the arbiter of this disagreement, it's down to you Louish to provide some evidence, just one pic of a real steel gun would be enough to validate your point.

TM HC was fun (if a little short ranged - I'll try a new hop bucking), and my JG S-552 is working (though wheezy on anything less than 11.1v due to the shagged motor and maybe some shimming issues), so I'll be buying some extra mags. I will need to be able to run these non-STANAG mags without changing out my whole belt. Yesterday's game showed the SA80 pouches weren't great.... as they weren't in the prime spots towards the front of the belt, I couldn't really seem them with my current mask / goggle setup (which I'm not intending on changing). I could pull the mags by feel, but trying to stuff them back in when emptied was a non-runner, as the soft material collapsed. Falling back on stuffing mags into zipped chest pockets lead to some of the most non-Tactical reloads known to man A workaround could be a dump pouch at the back, but I'll go back to looking at replacement pouches.

Good day at Special Ops. 80 people there meant the games inevitably ended up with some stalemates due to the weight of suppressing fire, but the marshals did a good job of encouraging, and if that didn't work then even moving some extra cover in place, or simply declaring an objective taken. I noticed the teenagers weren't very keen on trekking back to respawns, they'd just walk 20m from the front line and then go back again, whereas this old man with his arthritic knees and chocolate ankles was toiling backwards and forwards. Oh well. Had a couple of hero moments when pushing forward, had two rifles (two! count 'em! two!) working and used, and when the battery gave out in the TM Aug HC, right when I was pushed up on the objective area, I even pulled the pistol out. I managed to try a couple of HPA guns. So yeah, an Evo Scorpion with the necessary bits at several hundred quid might be a bit of a big bill to swallow, but it really was nice to shoot. The guys were impressed with how good the DE M906 was, especially for the price. The TM got some compliments too (mostly no doubt for Not Being Another M4, I'm sure :)) I think our team won every single round through the day.

I empty their boneyard section whenever there's anything good in there, so just buy cheap stuff, but Paul has always been helpful. I'd happily spend on a full price aeg.

Cheers guys, good suggestions. I'm going to play the skirmish tomorrow with a couple of the SA80 pouches on the left, and the two displaced plastic pouches on the right side, see how the picks and the gun get on. .. If the gun isn't really the thing for my site (because of the typicalTM 270fps) then there's no need for the new pouches. I'll make a call on Monday

Infrastructure? Isn't that clicking buttons on an Azure dashboard, these days? I code in BASIC. And I'm not talking about that new-fangled Visual Basic malarkey either...

Roger's showing off his modern technology. He's got a rubber duck as a Pair Programming companion AND he writes in a language which uses curly brackets! What about you? (sorry for the off-topicness)

That's not fair, you've got Advanced Mode enabled!

Very true, in my IT job we consider that to be the 'Cardboard Man Pair Programming' approach Given the context, explain it to this chap:

Yeah, as a man with 4 guns not working properly (after 'upgrades' and 'fixes'), and a couple of working guns (either completely or mostly left unmolested), I can agree with leaving it alone. Especially as G&Gs are quite known for being reliable. Keep that as your safe fall-back, and go buy a second hand gun for your project. Teching is fun, but can be hard. There's no guarantee you'll have the gun back in a good state in time for your next skirmish. It's a bit sad when you have to leave a gun at home and rent one

Cheers guys, those suggestions all look good, especially the Templars. The thing is, I'm still a tight-wad at heart, and I've noticed that Novritsch are selling the green pouches at a mere 10 Euros a piece (because they're discontinuing that colour), and they do seem to be everything I need (I like the inserts which can alter the height / grip of the mags in the pouches). As I've also had my eye on their hi-capa pistol pouches with a similar system, so I might go ahead and buy them all together. I'll have another look tomorrow