RostokMcSpoons

Oh blimey. So I've just ordered a Cybergun F2000, with my fingers firmly crossed that it won't be a lemon and an awful purchase... I've noticed it's quite a heavy gun at over 3kg, and now I see it doesn't have any sling points as standard! As I've got an 800m walk to and from our safe zone to the battle area, and I'm typically lugging two guns and a rucksack, a sling is pretty useful... Actually the single point sling I run on my m4 is one of my best purchases as it's kept me from getting aching arms through the day So you guys who have had these before; any recommendations for sourcing one of the special slings / straps? Or on how to make one?

Double Eagle used to make rubbish springers that could be had for pocket money prices, that's where their bad reputation comes from. Their current guns' reputation is good ? The technology is also excellent, the fire control system with binary fire and burst mode are so easy to program. They're not perfect... mine doesn't seem to like the cold at all, so after 4 skirmishes I'm preparing to do some work on it with a new spring, hop rubber and nub, and a bit of general cleaning and lubing. But I don't think anyone has had theirs actually break on them, which is pretty damned good for our little toy gnus ?

Abso-bloody-lutely! Lots of us DE M900 owners here, and I think we're united in being happy with our purchases. The major problem has been getting hold of them, but I did notice BBguns4less of all places has now got a bunch of guns in stock. While all the 900 series guns have different rails and receivers, the internals are the same, so all the upgrade advice is the same Review thread... More recent thread... my accessories thread https://airsoft-forums.uk/topic/52888-essential-and-not-so-essential-bits-to-bling-my-new-de-m906c-to-the-max-well-a-little-bit/ There are more out there I think

It's a done-deal already @BigStew, I went with the Cybergun at near half that price. As it's built by Cyma now, it'll hopefully go for a while before I need to start getting some bits for it.

Yesterday's game was 'interesting' in a few ways. My M906C chrono'd at 230fps in the morning. Once I'd recovered from the shock (I wasn't expecting much more, say 270fps, but still!) I decided to roll with the gun anyway, as my belt is all set for M4 mags and I didn't have 100% faith in my AK. So I ended up on a team with Santa and his Elf, which was amusing but not very tactical Usual collection of good games in the morning, with a nice pic of me in the battle haze... A a great Xmas stew for lunch, a raffle with some decent prizes (no luck on those unfortunately, a P90 with an M4 adapter would've been fun to win) For the afternoon I decided to roll with the AK but damn it, it let me down. It looked damnably cool while it was working But later in this 'rolling defence' game against the marshals firstly the hop needed tweaking - I asked for help and a teammate got pinged as he was doing it. Poor bugger was our first casualty, and out for the rest of the game. Then I couldn't get the top cover back on (I'm still cursing it now, damn thing won't go on easily even at home)... I ended up surrounded by the enemy , knowing that as soon as I showed myself I'd get lit up by multiple HPAs at very short range :[ I popped my head out of cover, holding the top cover and battery sort-of in place with my left hand, aimed at the nearest enemy, pulled the trigger - nothing! I think the fuse had gone with all the fecking-about. (Luckily someone from distance saw me first and I got pinged not too painfully) Back to the M906 which had held up pretty well through the day, considering the low fps - there's a lot to be said for sneaking or rushing up close before opening fire - outright performance isn't an issue when you're engaging at 10-30m rather than trying to out-duke an HPA or sniper at 40m+ range. Anyway, a good day, roll on the next game, whenever that might be! (that's my grinning fizzog next to the left of the Russian flag)

Well I haven't given much chance for anyone else to chip in, because I realised it's getting late and if I order it now there's a tiny chance it'll arrive tomorrow. So ... sod it. I went with the black. After all, no-one ever got fired for buying a black gun (to borrow heavily from the 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM' saying that got bandied around in IT circles 30+ years ago) And yeah, as you suggested Adolf, it'll be easier to match paint across the whole gun when it all starts off the same colour

Simple really, I'm buying one but which is the better colour choice??? I do intend to paint it ... eventually... and although the base colour would probably be closer to the tan colour, to get the full Battlefield4 "Havoc" paint-job I'd have to get the black plastic foregrip to match the rest of the gun, so it'd almost certainly all need painting. (Note: I think the off-white base colour is a little bold for me, so I'd probably go with some sort of khaki or tan, and also the red might go a little browner) But until the paint job gets done the black option feels like the obvious, easy, safe choice. I'm not sure if the tan will make the plastic seams etc too obvious, and whether in the normal lighting it'll to be too light. But I'm being not obvious and not safe with this gun, so should I go for the tan option anyway? Whaddya reckon? I reserve the right to ignore the majority advice

Got me one of these from that there AliExpress... a £21 chronograph so I can check whether my 'upgrades' make things better or worse ... my God it's small! (it's about 1" in height) The tube that you shoot down is very narrow, hence those brass tubes which are used to position the chrono on the end of the barrel (here it's set up for my 35mm diameter silencer) It seems to work ok, but the normal-sized ones have the big advantage of not needing to faff around with those mounting tubes (or risking damaging the inside of the chrono if it's wrongly positioned)

My Chinese cheap-as-chips chrono has arrived! Interesting results so far, given that when I chrono'd my M906C at the site, in the bitter cold, it showed 230fps! My AK was at 270fps which is what I'd been told it ran at by the site tech after he'd meddled with it, so I have to trust that chrono. Now nice and warm it's showing at 295-310fps depending on a bit of fiddling with the hop It actually got the highest fps as set for 0.28's at the site, but as I've only got 20m range at home, I don't really know how it's hopping now. The rate of fire showed at 12rps with the fully charged 7.4v Titan, and 15rps with the 11.1v Li-Po. However, that's not fully charged (again). I'll repeat the experiment once that's done. The horribly low fps tells me the stock hop rubber or perhaps the lube (or lack of), or the seals ... maybe even the tolerances within the gun do not like cold temperatures. At all. Now I've got the chrono and I'm on holiday til the New Year, I'm going to test the accuracy as it is now, videoing as I go. I'll then upgrade the gun with the M100 spring, Macaron 50deg rubber and Omega nub, and see where it's after that. I'll even try leaving it out in the cold for an hour or two to see if that changes things.

It's definitely not g&g as this one uses a v3 gearbox and is standard parts whereas the g&g build has proprietary parts. Well that's how I understand it anyway. Negative Airsoft did a service on one and he started he preferred it to the g&g version. Annoyingly I can't find the particular video or I'd link it here. Not sure whether it's actually made by Cyma or JG. It's £175/£180 everywhere. I know that's probably a bit steep, but sod it, I can either have it now or not at all, so have to make a rapid decision. I'll buy it from JD Airsoft as I'll take up their bargain bio bb offer at the same time, making the £10 p&p that bit easier to swallow. Edit: JD Airsoft did a good job with a quick reply to my battery query, they think a 1450mAH stick will fit in there, which I guess refers to this https://jdairsoft.net/np-11-1v-1450mah-single-lipo-battery-deans9 A bit surprised if they're suggesting an 11.1v but there you go. Anyway I ought to be ok with my Titan 7.4v. Result! Edit2: Haha, I should have read the JD airsoft description! The F2000 rifle is without a doubt one of the most difficult to get hold of airsoft guns on the market, to the point that this model, previously manufactured by G&G, is long discontinued. So now we have a completely different model, manufactured by CYMA and about £150 cheaper than G&G's version. An ABS composite injection moulded exterior bristling with aluminium, alloy and steel parts. Efficient on the field and for CQB. This is the new version of the FN2000 built by CYMA for Cybergun and features the new V.3 metal gearbox, metal spring guide and high torque motor. Comes with high capacity magazine 470 rounds & manual. No battery or charger included.

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but as I've got the go ahead to spend some money on myself for a Chrimbo present, I'm actively looking at the Cybergun F2000 for an immediate purchase. Until I saw the size of the battery compartment again anyway. That stopped me in my tracks Am I going to have but to buy a special battery for this gun? It looks like only small PEQ box or short nunchuck style will fit? Any specific recommendations? Without a MOSFET I'm going to have to be careful with a Li-Po, unless I can slip my battery monitor in there too...?

I've just come back from a game where there were a few HPA gunners. I think they were all running mid cap mags so no real problem with the total amount of BB's flying around but it's noticeable there's some (good natured) chuntering in the ranks if/when they all end up on one team because it instantly throws out any balance. And judging by the line of bee stings running up my thigh from a burst I took at 10+ metres, I don't think the regulators are left untouched after the chrono in the morning. That did piss me off

That looks excellent, where did you get it from? 3x mag with a red dot and wide field of view seems a better bet than the 4x32 scope I've tried and didn't really get on with

If I win the lottery tonight, I'll offer him a grand. I want that gun. One day. If I win the lottery tonight I'll build a time machine. £150 for cash?

As we're still 'motoring' I guess I'll throw this in the mix, apropos the jap cars vs character vs reliability thing I commented on before... And I don't know whether I'm arguing for or against my previous comment, or moving the conversation forwards, backwards or sideways I've owned 4 (count 'em) MX-5s. They've all been very reliable considering I've had a Mk1, a Mk2 and two Mk3's - all with plenty of years and miles under their belts. I've had a couple of O2 sensors fail, I've had a window winder fail (with the window down, and on a rainy day when I'd travelled a long distance for a game of golf, natch) and a mystery misfire that never got fixed but still let me drive around. So famed Jap reliability. And I loved 'em, so they had character. Performing reliably was a part of that character I loved, I guess (Being able to provoke mini-powerslides at any/every corner in the wet also helped immensely! I'm looking forward to the time when I can buy a relatively-nearly-new Mk4, but current COVID / job market situation is dictating otherwise unfortunately) PS Eezer, what sort of Mondy are you driving? One of my earlier cars was a Mondy 2.5 V6 (just the base version, Mk1), that was a great car. Smoothest and best engine I've owned I think (all my other cars have been 2 litre V4s or worse)

And Mr Neggy Airsoft would like to chip in with some swearing and an upgrade to a Cyma M14...

Interesting analogy. My first car was a classic English sports car. Smelled of hot oil all the time, leaked water in the rain, wouldn't go above 60mph, and every time I hit 3rd gear the gearstick would nudge the fast forward button on the tape deck "Screeeeeech". Damn thing was put to death at the first MOT with rusty sills. Bags of character though. But when 'character' tends to be a list of faults or foibles, how desirable is that, really? Edit: And oh yeah, definitely "maths". We're in the UK. We do quite enough to accommodate our Yankee cousins, no need to mutilate our lingo too

Good camo ? My kneepads came from Wickes or Homebase, used for when I pulling an interior wall down etc... dirt cheap, and that's somewhat reflected in the quality of the straps which are quite weedy and thin and consequently can't cut off the blood supply to my lower legs, nor do the back of the knees any real damage So just for once, my policy of buying/using cheap shit seems to have paid off

Latest deal on that page is Specna Core Bio BB's - bottles of 3000 with a BOGOF deal Postage is £9 to UK Mainland. So that means, for instance... 3 X Deal for 0.28g Bio BBs = £27 for 18,000 spheroidal projectiles, inc P&P

As I'm asking Santa to bring me a TM pistol for Xmas (a somewhat forlorn hope - apart from my wife resisting spending more on airsoft, would a retailer accept my UKARA ref on an order being paid for by someone else?) I have a question regarding the Hi-Capa's and the 15mm BBU. Allegedly the D.O.R version of the Hi-Capa now has the 15mm BBU, which would make it perfect for me (I like the simpler 1911's. I'm not fussed about putting on a optic. The price is currently £135 at Defcon, so no premium for the unused red dot capability) Can anyone confirm it's true though? https://www.airsoftsociety.com/threads/tokyo-marui-hicapa-d-o-r-dor.159313/

Random CAPITALISATION for THE WIN !!!

Handy review. I find M14s to be deeply cool, but the shape of the stock and pistol grip on that doesn't look very good to my eyes. On the flip side, I talked to a guy running a full length M14 at my site, and he confirmed that is annoyingly long. I guess the CM032W would be my preference but it still doesn't look as awesome as the full length version

I may be putting a little too much stock in what Neggy Airsoft Man says, because I like his videos plus I don't know enough to be able to disagree with him, but the last vid I saw of him dealing with a Novritsch gun was interesting. He didn't complain about Novritsch, he complained about the choice of VFC as the basis for the guns, and failures of the VFC parts that Nov hadn't touched. (Mind you, he was getting paid by Nov as a sub-contractor to fix a gun which was having trouble getting shipped back and forth. He complemented their customer service for doing that) Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what the future holds... people like me who have come in to the sport / returned to the fold recently see a couple of Nov videos and think "that's cool" and are happy to pay (extra) for the gear... more seasoned veterans see past the slick marketing and website (which IS good from what I've seen) and have turned against him.

Finally got around to re-doing the video for the fully charged 11.1v battery, and also I meddled with a video editor to see what it was like. edit: video replaced, see post below.

My delivery turned up today. Yay! A fairly painful wait, as its missed what might have been my last game of the year, but I have to say the kit itself is nice. The modular suppressor is very much like the cheap AliExpress one I got last week, but that was actually nicely made so I'm not going to complain. And the modular design is good.