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6 minutes ago, Dan Robinson said:
That's why the two of us spent so much time walking back to Canada the other weekend LOL.
We're both wearing the same boots, it's proof!
We should inform the MoD that their combats boots will get their troops killed.
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9 hours ago, JimFromHorsham said:
Feck me, I have un-camouflaged shoe laces, this must be why I get shot so often. What a schoolboy error! I am ashamed.
£15, cheap at twice / half / twelvety [delete as applicable] the price!
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There's a cheap bluetooth-enabled chrono at Ali which comes with a little tripod, for the princely sum of £27.33, 5 day delivery. M'daughter asked me what I'd like for Chrimbo, I might tell her this...
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006246367695.html
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5 hours ago, Colin Allen said:
Do you have the version with the 17mm hole?
Yeah I believe that's right.
It's not easy to miss the sides 😂
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I have the one Colin has linked. It works fine
It's not super great, it's got a small aperture and the thing that affixes to the front panel to help align the barrel is very fiddly to change. Eventually you'll get bored changing it and just hand-hold the darned thing. Mine bears the scars on the inside where I've not lined it up correctly. Eventually I'll probably break it!
But it's definitely useful to check the muzzle velocity to ensure everything is working as expected. And won't fail chrono.
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Yeah but you'd have had to take the role off Peter Serafinowicz*, and he deserved an easy payday, IMHO
* Would probably have got more well paid gigs in his career if his name was easier to spell
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I had another quick test fire with this today, and I enjoyed shooting it. The rate of fire is a bit uninspiring though, I'd rather like to boost it up a bit to 15 minimum, ideally 18 rps.
I could just stick in an 11.1v but I know from (brief) experience it'll turn into Ol' Sparky... so that'd need a cheapo MOSFET to tame it. Any recommendations for a cheap and small one?
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The stock spring losses oomph quite quickly in my experience, so the original FPS is rather lost in the mists of time.
Getting around 260 with the correct hop applied now (which lowers the FPS quite a bit). Not sure what spring is inside!
I think I had an m105 in my 906c when I first changed out the stock spring, it'll be in one of my old threads
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25 minutes ago, CrackCommandoUnit1972 said:
You cant beat a MP5.
But you can beat an egg
I'm not sure where I'm going with this....
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I've swapped all my working guns into the loft for their Xmas holidays, and bought down a couple of not working / needs work toys to meddle with instead.
One of them is my first ever airsoft gat, a Ye Olden Times TM AK47-S
It's taken a bit of a battering over the years, but a set of Cyma polymer 'modern style' grip and furniture have spruced it up. I've test fired it with a new-ish mag I bought from Action Hobbies boneyard sale on Saturday, and it's still ticking along at a smooth-but-slow 12 rps on a 7.4v LiPo, and a surprisingly high 265 fps with 0.28's... so not too shabby.
It needs a couple of bits though:
1) That stupid little plastic cover that fits onto the gearbox to stop mud and rain and snow and mice getting into the gears from behind the trigger
2) Stock release button. It's just the top bit, the swivel mechanism still works, but without the thumb pad part it's quite hard to push in.
I've searched for both on t'net, but my Google-Fu seems lacking today, I've had no luck - any idea where I can source these (or does anyone have boneyard bits they can sell me?)
Cheers!
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If Santa wins the bloody euro millions tomorrow night, then most of the VFC GBB catalogue will be winging it's way to sunny Milton Keynes!
He could stuff a sniper rifle into a very long stocking too... The new Novritsch L96 V2 would be good
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Before the boneyard opened up on the site, Paul had posted pics on Facebook... I'd spotted a TM HK416D NGRS and thought I might have a go for that.
And then I found out the mags are proprietary, and that put me off. And when it showed up it was £350, just a bit too much to tempt me. So the G3 got the love on the rebound 😋😘😄
Still wish I'd got the Galil, but buying anything was silly really, I've packed everything into the loft except for the guns that need fixing / selling!
It is a handsome gat though...
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9 minutes ago, TheFull9 said:
A lot of the modern 1-piece scope mounts do cantilever forward and don't require a lot of 20mm slots, what you have should be enough for something out there. Cheek weld may be the other issue, as tends to crop up with designs from the 50s(ish) where optics weren't really accommodated for, so I'd say bear that in mind.
Found this little thing at Ant Supplies at a bargain price... it should be enough to hold the 4x32 air rifle scope I have (it's very light weight)
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Impulse purchase ahoy.
Thanks very much Paul @ Action Hobbies for tempting me into yet another toy I don't need!
JG G3, set up as DMR, so semi-auto only. I was worried when I found it was all-plastic, but those fears were unfounded tbh, it is very solidly put together. The motor turns over reasonably nicely on the stick 7.4v LiPo that fits easily in the foregrip. It was upgraded at Combat South apparently, and they rewired to Deans already, which saves me some ham-fisted soldering
A few test shots down the garden proved it shoots nicely. Chrono'd at 320fps with 0.28g BBs so it's not exactly breathing fire. I guess I won't know how good it'll work on the field for a while now, but I'll be tempted to stick in a weaker spring so I can get rid of the DMR's MED and just play it as a normal gat.The little RIS rail .... hmmm, how am I supposed to fit a scope on there? I guess I need some sort of cantilever mount? I like the HK iron sights, so maybe it'll stay as it is.
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If it's new then I'd send it back rather than hoping to fix it. You might have to argue your case quite strongly with the retailer as not many have a good rep at handling warranty issues.
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@MrTea In the (now) unlikely event I undo my purchase, do you want me to get Paul to hold on to it for you?
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A good day at Special Ops on Saturday... last of the year - probably last woodland skirmish there until the middle of February or even March because Carlos is going to concentrate on getting the second site (CQB) up-and-running for the start of February.
Maybe @Dan Robinson will fill in about the gameplay (props to him for a game-winning smoke grenade in the VIP round) , but personally I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the previous visit. This time I did bag some really nice kills, made some memorable pushes, and generally had a nice chat with lots of people between rounds.
Had a few problems with my kit though:
The DE M906C was noticeably screechy - my fault as I'd attempted a motor swap the previous day. Tweaking the motor height and even removing and re-inserting the motor didn't help. And it stopped working altogether in the late afternoon (duff battery due to the cold?) It's all working fine now, and doesn't sound toooo bad, so I think the weather really might have to shoulder some of the blame. Dunno, guv.
The TM AUG HC showed a low velocity at chrono - just the 220 fps with 0.28's, but when the DE decided to stop playing ball, the AUG stepped up and proved that TM really do spread some magic dust in their internals - I still managed to get kills at respectable range with it. And the noise of it spitting out BB's at ~20rps turns heads in the right way. It's a cracking gun, thanks @Asomodai for selling it to me
The Tippmann didn't get a run out after showing some promise when I was prepping my kit... that's documented hereAnd my goggles spent a lot of the day fogged up, in spite of two applications of No Fog. The extreme cold, plus my mesh face mask deflecting my breath into them overwhelmed their usual fog resistance. Perhaps I'll get a pair of mesh goggles as backup. Is @heroshark still making them?
Roll on next year!
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Apologies if this is boring-as-shit, but I feel I have to document this as I seem to be very good at learning stuff about this gun, going a few months without touching it, forgetting some of that information, and having to start (effectively) from scratch.
So, having said that - good news... I meddled with the RoF valve and the power output valve, and by hook / crook / sheer luck the darned thing started to fire better on semi AND full auto.
I took it along to the skirmish on Saturday really actually hoping to use it 'in anger' for the very first time.(People have told me that Tippmann's are finicky to set up, it looks like you need to balance the valve settings for them to work together properly)
Well, the hop up just still wouldn't play ball, so it got left on the bench. The best I got it was that out of 10 BB's fired, 5 or 6 would hit the sky, 1 or 2 would fly flat, and the rest would arc towards the ground.
But I've now made some more progress. I've tweaked the RoF and power even further so it's now spitting out 0.28's at 290fps, showing a great deal more consistency. And the RoF has bumped to (guesstimate) 15rps.
I took the hop cylinder out
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and looking closely at it I realized it has, I think, a custom nub. Instead of the 'pencil eraser' lump ,shown on the photo of the stock unit above, it's got a shape rather like a horse's saddle with a shallower 'ramp' on one side than the other. It's like an even fancier version of an Omega nub. I think I've now oriented it correctly (it rotates freely on the unit, so there's every chance it wasn't straight-on originally).
The TDC adjustment screw now works smoothly and with a consistent resistance when adjusting it, because I also oriented the cylinder to ensure the grub screw engages with a recess within the groove (not shown in pic, unfortunately), so there's no longer any chance the unit will be rotated instead of increasing or decreasing the height of the nub.
Annoyingly I won't have the option of checking the true accuracy of the gat at skirmish range until next year, but I guess if I get all the BB's hitting within a few inches at 15m then it'll prove the hop is properly engaged... tomorrow will be the first chance to have a try at that.I'm really excited because, damn it, this thing is really fun to shoot
Edit: Fecklity-feck, it really seems to be working! I can now adjust hop successfully - it'll over-hop 0.28's visibly at 15m, and I can dial it all out or even - get this - set it correctly.
So it groups! I have a usable Tippmann at last. Yay! My joy is unconfined!
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I have no room for that sadly, my spare guns stay in the loft 😔
I ought to thin out my collection somewhat, but that's not going so well 😂
Congrats on buying the SIG btw, I would have been sorely tempted by that (too?!?) if I didn't already have a JG version that I bought as a boneyard from AH, and which is now working pretty well
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13 minutes ago, Shamal said:
Yep should of had the Galil ☹️
Yeah I know!!!
Now stop rubbing salt into the wound 🥴
10 minutes ago, Colin Allen said:My son and I share a JG G3; it is surprisingly rigid. £100 is a good price.
Plastic is a polymeric material, so you did get a polymer RIF
Oh you pedant!. You know what I mean, one of the reviews described it as Mattel Barbie plastic 😂
Still, I'm glad to hear it's actually solid.
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Well, well, well.
The dam broke and I impulse-purchased a gun for the first time in a while. The annoying thing is I probably bought the wrong gun
Ok, rewind to last night. Big boneyard sale on at Action Hobbies, I spotted two gats I've had a long-term hankering for - A Cyma Galil with a few mags at £110, and a JG G3 set up as a DMR (and with a collapsible stock and optic mount) for £100. I stuck both in my cart but then only went ahead with the G3 (because DMR = different from my sub 350fps AR collection, and the G3 is on my "Hot Gats" list)
Oops.
What I didn't realize was that the G3 is all plastic. Lightweight can be advantage (especially when it's a long gun), but ... hmmm. Long guns give plenty of leverage potential - I'd prefer polymer or metal to give it at least a fighting chance of not getting snapped in half when I clumsily run into a tree!
Meanwhile the Galil is a tasty thing, and when I saw one a while ago, I really wanted it.I can only ascribe dumping the Galil in favour of the G3 as a brain-fart.
In my defence I expected the G3 to be a bit more substantial than it is, and when I checked reviews and comments here I see it's actually rather liked for what it is. So maybe not a totally stupid purchase!
Anyway - two questions for the Hive Mind, given that I'm due to collect the gat tomorrow.
1) Has anyone backed out of / returned a purchase from AH's Boneyard sale? I don't know if Distance Selling regulations apply fully to second-hand gear. I accept the 'no warranty, sold as seen' disclaimer because AH haven't sold me a pile of shite (as yet), and Paul who runs it seems a good chap, but perhaps I should jump out of the deal if possible.
2) Is the JG G3 worth running with? Will it disappoint me, or is £100 a sensible amount for the RIF (firing at ~420fps, semi locked, optic mount, 2 high caps)?
As to whoever got the Galil...
What would the most "function over form" AEG look like?
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I actually find the M4 platform to be very ergonomic and enjoyable to use.
I do like the rearward weight bias of bullpups, quite handy when I an aiming stance for a while.
But for a pure plastic slinging device, then I'd probably go for an HPA'd hi-capa or SMG. As light and short as possible, wankerish RoF with a drum mag.
(An MP7, with the exception of the wanker RoF might well be on my shopping list 😋)