The_Lord_Poncho

Nice work - i'd love to progress to where i can design my own files for 3D printing. At the moment I use a simple circular end cap with a lip from an existing 3d file, and just scale it up and down to fit the various pre-cut perspex discs you can get off ebay - and the various scopes, sights, and torches that i use.

Well, looks like you have done a great job! I'm now scouring the usual suspects for stock - so far come up blank!

As a bit of an aside - apologies - that's a lovely looking gat. Do you mind me asking what particular model is it (looks somewhat different proportions to my hastily googled 'JG G3' hits!), and is that real wood or some form of wood effect wrap/plastic?

That's a great shame - obviously only one perspective, but the bloke sounds a bit of a knob. I look forward to the reincarnation, hopefully it will continue to stock some of the bulldog stuff, as their combats are some of the best fitting for my long legs that i've found!

A good evening game at Driver wood last night - £15 for 4 hours of quite closely packed game play which i thought was very reasonable. We used one of the paintball fields, so more open terrain, small buildings and towers and artificial cover interspersed with trees. A good choice, as the dense packed undergrowth of the rest of the site would have led to boring and uneventful game play, as well as a significant amount of blue on blue. Aside for one particular game where flashing pucks needed to be collected from around the field by our team - and where the opposing team hadn't heard the Marshalls whistle to start the game (!) culminating in them leaving their spawn 5 minutes in, it went off smoothly. It was nice that there was some flood lighting dotted around the field, randomly changing colour every now and then to add spice. Still plenty of dark corners to hide in, but it was just enough so that players weren't forced into the tedious dilemma of using a torch to try to spot the enemy whilst simultaneously giving away your position. At least, not all of the time. The games were chosen to work well on the field, and meant that it was generally fairly predictable which rough areas of the field the friendlies and the enemy were in, reducing the annoyance of constant blue on blue. Reaffirmed my view that tracer units - whilst undeniably fun - have more negatives than positives in the dark, literally highlighting your location to all around. A decently dialled in red dot did me proud last night, atop my L119a1ish. Oh, and, following on from the (rather accurate) posts earlier in this thread about the green team always winning - nice to see the Orange team winning each game last night!

Ah yes, now you mention it, I think i saw the brass plaque on the Zil, commemorating that event!

Ah, I'm with you now. That will be interesting. I don't think I ever really saw that truck being used for cover.

Which is exactly what the UK Scout Assn has done - so yes! Or, this forum could buy a 'crowd funded' licence to be used by all of its members. But, I completely agree - stick to allocated or PMR frequencies, and from a practical perspective, nothing will happen.

Like yourselves, I rather like the dense foliage. However, I'm rather confident that, unless there is a low pass from a B52 spraying Agent Orange, the sheer amount of rhododendron there will mean that there will still be more than adequate opportunities a for sneaky play and flanking. After playing there rather a lot over the past few years, I'm actually quite looking forward to a little change! Where has the new bus been plonked?

Thanks Piman. To be fair, I hadn't even considered the bucking - I'm not sure why not (its my first thought for feeding issues in an AEG). The bucking I'm using is by Unicorn Airsoft - it came packaged with the unicorn inner barrel. Looking it up online, seems like the bucking is a 60 degree. The nozzle is the original stock AAP one. Whilst the Unicorn Bucking seems reasonably well regarded, perhaps ought to swap it for a Maple Leaf and see if that makes a difference to the feeding....

Cracking choice. Any plans to do a bit of work on it? Classic choice would be a slightly longer inner barrel, hadron designs TDC, I/H plate, and a chopped down suppressor. All somewhat unnecessary of course (especially as you've gone for the excellent TM original), but fun to tinker...!

What time do the Wednesday evening games finish up? I work down that direction occasionally, so quite tempted to give them a try...

I managed to do a little more testing yesterday. Conclusions: - WE mags producing around 80-FPS higher than Army Armament mags and the original Action Army mag that came with the AAP. - The Vorsk .32 bb's don't seem to feed as well as alternatives (ASG blaster .25) - Mags generally aren't feeding when filled to capacity. 75% filled mags are feeding better. any thoughts?

Mine certainly was - quick change spring to tweak the power to the right limits (useful for an SMG that is switching regularly between woodland and CQB), and the damn thing is ultra solid (heavy). I might be tempted to pop a new rubber in there at some point, but that's just for something to do, rather than necessity.

Buy your Double Eagle Noveske before you do (!) so you have a spare to lend him just in case it doesn't go to plan!

Last time i played, there was a new chap, with rental gear. I usually encourage them to tag along and actually quite enjoy random ad-hoc pairings on the field, but this guy was a little different - really crashing around, and insisting on shouting despite the enemy being rather close and us being somewhat behind their forward line. After quite a few unsuccessful attempts by me and another guy with us to quieten him down, I'm appalled to admit that we encouraged him to pursue 'a flanking manoeuvre' into an enemy base to get predictably lit up.... Well, it's all a learning process!

2-3 times per month for me - at least 1 woodland weekend morning, and at least one Wednesday evening CQB. The weekday evening games are easier to get a 'pass' for, but not quite as enjoyable - at least from me! I'm lucky to live only 15 minutes or so from the place I generally play at, so as I only play mornings at the weekend, i can be back home by 12:20ish, thus not eating into too much family time.

If you are going to the trouble/expense of upgrading the barrel and hop unit, then yes, it would seem to make sense to put in a quality bucking. I personally use Maple Leaf (look up the pro's and cons of decepticon vs autobot and silicone vs rubber), and ensure that you choose the correct hardness (expressed as 'degree') - 50 degree would probably be optimal for a pistol. I hear that Flamingo buckings are also highly rated, but I've never used them myself.

I'd be interested in this too - the trigger pull is one of the worst bits of the pistol. Does it still allow you to work it in single action - i.e. manually lock the hammer back? I have a tendency to inadvertently depress the hammer against me/my kit when playing, and vent all of the gas in a mag as a result, so i tend to leave the hammer cocked back when its holstered to prevent this.... edit - just found a tutorial at this link. https://www.onmymk.com/post/2017/10/11/Double-Action-Double-the-effort Still interested whether it allows the hammer to be manually locked in the cocked position though....

I'll explore whether i can get a pass....!

which day? I might try and nip along myself if i can one morning.

Thank you for the explanation, this makes sense! I think i am going to strip it down, sand and polish the inside of the receiver where the bolt tracks, check the barrel and hop is seated correctly, and re-tighten the upper (TTI carbine) receiver to the lower, in case the mags aren't sitting quite right for some reason. I might also try withy a range of different BB's in case the .32g Vorsk i was using aren't playing ball when the metal work gets a little colder than room temperature. Trouble is, i need to wait until a coldish day outside to try to replicate the game conditions again!

Hmm - that's interesting. So what you are saying is, the MAPP gas isn't likely to be a workable solution, at least not for the second half of the mag? I would have presumed that the gas would stay mixed and the different components of the gas vent equally through the mag's load. I think I need to look at more of the mechanical side of things then, and work out why, (only) when cold, it's not scooping a new BB from the mag.

I was using a mixture of mags- the original Action Army one, three army armaments, two We standard sized, two we extended. They all behaved the same, albeit the extended ones did feed a few times first before failing.... I'm wondering if somehow the TTI receiver is two tight, causing the metal to shrink slightly when it gets cold, and rub on the bolt- just enough to stop it fully retracting to pick up a BB? Albeit I didn't notice a loss of the full range of movement of the bolt, and it wouldn't even fire the first BB after manually cocking it...

To add to this - you mention that you have applied PTFE to the hop rubber - I've needed to be careful when doing this myself in the past, as you keep the tension on the tape as you wrap, it can pull the rubber around the barrel so that the mound is not sitting centrally in the window. End result, more hop applied to one side of the BB, meaning it curves off during its flight.