The_Lord_Poncho

With that much fps variation, potentially the bucking is folding at the lips? If you haven't already, maybe try a variety of different buckings, and ideally a different hop chamber at least to rule that out.

It's a bit of a slippery slope now- soon you will be investing in Airtac magazine adapters for your Glock/AAP/MK23....

OK, I've added an hpa valve to my GE 870- a bit of testing in the garden, and it's spot on! Finally the shotgun is a usable item. It was chronoing at circa 1j on about 100PSI, with a usable range of about 45m on. 25s. Mine is the version with the buffer tube and m4 LE stock, so the only downside is that the stock doesn't now collapse all the way as the valve pokes out the bottom of the buffer tube, but I've cut the stock such that it can collapse all but the last cm or so. Definitely a worthwhile upgrade in my view if you already have the Hpa tank/reg/line....

Decent Sunday at Driverwood, huge numbers (120+ in the morning) which made the game play a touch static/reduced the scope for cunning tactical game play. A good morning nonetheless though, with no hit taking dramas that I spotted, and several memorable pistol charges conducted with the AAP. On the way out to the first game my foot managed to hook under a root, and I went down hard. The process of saving the L96 meant that it was a bit of a comical fall with my chest/face taking it all, completely unbroken by my arms... given the pain I'm still in, I'm guessing at least one rib is broken. But all's well that ends well - the L96 is unscathed, and I cracked on with the two games like an utter HERO

Given the amount of airsoft gubbins under that bed, it looks like you would be able to remove the bed frame without the mattress moving!

I presume that you are using the genuine TM magazines? I have a variety of visually identical glock mags - WE, Action army, E&C, Army armament - with the exception of the WE mags, they all randomly light strike in different pistols.

That doesn't sound like traditional 'mid cap syndrome' to me- this is usually where the (AEG) midcap spring is so strong that the BBs don't seat in the hop unit properly/interact with the nozzle and cause low FPS. Leaving a mag filled for a few days would actually help mitigate it, rather than cause that type of problem. Maybe your spring has the opposite problem, and is too weak, or the feed channel in the mag needs a little love?

It's pretty local to me - if I can make it, I will.

Wow. That would set me back a new set of eye pro for pretty much every time I play - I'm not sure my finances can extend to that! I would like to think that any eye pro that is materially weakened by a hit or two shouldn't be on my face in the first place.

With respect to the title of this thread, I wonder I'm correct in that, ownership and indeed, use of tanks that are past their testing dates is not actually unlawful. But rather the relevant regulations place restrictions and duties upon employers as opposed to private users of such kit. Of course, if that is true, then it places a duty on sites - for the protection of their workers - to pay attention to the testing dates etc, but does not mean that anyone using an out of date tank is likely to have their collar felt by the law. Unless it all goes badly wrong.

I had two issues with my AAP carbine build - based on the TTI kit. 1) the bolt being seemingly 'sticky' and not always returning to battery despite upgraded springs, and 2) a gap between the receiver and hand guard! I resolved issue 1 by removing the short stroke buffers that i had put in there, and removing the cocking handle extension too (my theory being to reduce the weight of the (stock) bolt. I suspect that it was the short stroke buffers that were the main problem though. I never resolved issue 2, but to be fair the gap isn't quite as big as yours - but it still bothers me!

Top - air gun (based on the semi-only selector) middle - firearm (H&K logo on the folding stock) bottom - airsoft (process of elimination) actually - just spotted the bottom one too only has semi. But loads of white text safety blurb printed on both the top and bottom options, so those must be the more dangerous ones. Oh, wait, hang on....

I definitely prefer variety over having a few extremely expensive guns. I've built up rather a lot of decent (enough) performers - most of which are on the budget end of the spectrum, but feel solid enough, look the part, and achieve good accuracy and range (especially if I've successfully tweaked them). I just enjoy having a variety of historic guns, smgs, long rifles, a few pistols, a single sniper etc. If I was purely going for outright performance on every game morning, I'd only ever select a particular lightweight HPA DMR build that I have, and an AAP with a great hop inside. But in reality, I get a lot of pleasure from simply rotating through all my variety of AEGs, my four HPA options, and swapping between my pistols for secondary. Unless I'm having an off day, I usually achieve a roughly similar favourable kill/killed ratio irrespective of whether I have my 'worst' performing gun in my hands. It's the same for my clothing/kit - I derive an odd amount of pleasure from wearing what I might view as 'interesting' patterns - plain olive, classic tiger stripe, partizan, and the more mainstream but annoyingly effective MC Tropic. I'd rather have a variety of comfortable, functional, robust yet cheaper gear that I cycle between to keep things interesting for me, than a single set of uber expensive e.g. crye kit.

I do my best to achieve cost neutrality with my Airsoft expenditure... Well, kind of. I relentlessly hammer my train company for delay repay, and all the compensation is paid into my PayPal account (cough, toy fund), which is then spent on the next Airsoft purchase once it builds to the requisite amount. It makes all those waits on overcrowded trains just that little bit more bearable...

I usually find that its the wiring breaking down inside the cables associated with the cheap (ish) radio accessories that are to blame, rather than the radios themselves. Perhaps buy a cheap speaker mic, and see if that works to rule out the radios themselves (but it would be very unusual for three radios to have all failed simultaneously).

I find the Pheas airsoft videos probably the most useful and genuine -his disassembly videos are some of the best out there. But ultimately all you tube content has to be viewed with suspicion - they are helpful for understanding features, internals etc etc regardless though.

I haven't been there for a while- I probably ought to give it another go. About an 80:20 cracking evening to very average evening ratio based on my past ten or so visits over a few years.

I'm up for that!

Anyone else slowly falling victim to the reverse phycology here, and now also becoming desperate to visit this site?!

Pretty sure that this is now run by the guy who runs my local site (Driver Wood). Also characterised by a good amount of investment in the site infrastructure. I am generally rather well disposed to Driver Wood, and always have a good time - so if its to be run along the same lines, hopefully that's a positive thing. Strange they run that medic rule there - in Driver Wood they used to have a medic rule involving white arm bands (i.e., in effect, two lives - a white arm band placed on by a nearby team mate when you got hit, max one on each arm before respawn). They scrapped it a while back as they felt it promoted cheating (probably correct) and replaced instead with a roaming spawn point (flag) for each team that moves about some way behind the action. I much prefer it - it allows game play to be balanced out a little by moving an overly dominants' team roaming spawn a little further from the action, whilst preventing a very lengthy trudge back to the 'hard'/non roaming team re-spawn which again can promote cheating. Strange they don't do something similar at Exeter. Possibly they were lacking the spare 2x marshalls to run that on the day of your visit?

I'll give it a go. For me, the fill valve is on the underside of the buffer tube, so I think a fairly easy fit. @Cannonfodder have you taken the plunge yet?

I bought the black versions of the IKEA peg boards. But, the white ones are definitely the way to go so that you can actually see the RIFs!

I'm watching this with interest - I have a full stock GE 870 shotgun, and the performance is distinctly anaemic, with the useable range being probably 20m max.... HPA tapping it might just give it a new lease of life.

Do you have a 3d printer or a mate with one? (if not, you will be surprised how cheap a perfectly adequate entry model is). I downloaded a ready made file a few years ago, and just scale it up or down within my slicer programme to pair with the cheap poly carbonate discs from ebay. Something like this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5561802

Do you think that your accuracy issues are due to the over-voluming? I have a number of AEGs which are theoretically over volumed, and an M4 with a mancraft gen 2 that is somewhat over volumed, and all are pretty accurate (in fact, I'd venture the Mancraft is the most accurate that I own). Might it be a barrel or hop issue, or even something as simple as clipping some errant foam in a suppressor?