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Also, you're not going to magically get better range or Accuracy just be switching to a gas gun. What ammo do you use currently? Have a look at switching to heavier ammo to start with, as well as maybe cleaning or even replacing your barrel & bucking. If you're struggling with having to fire excessively to get a hit now, then switching to a GBBR is only going to exacerbate this, but with a reduced magazine capacity.

Why not just take your gun to a store and find one that fits?

This is how it currently is. Not used it in a while though, I have to say. I find DMRs to be kind of awkward, I'm likely to use either a bolt action or a normal AEG more often, I should remedy this in the new year!

I struggled to get any decent performance out of mine with a maple leaf MR or Macaron variant. One of the very basic original 60º Maple leafs seemed to work okay for a while, but not having a range to test it out on, it was a long slow process of 'build up and set for a safe power with no hop' then take it out to a game, set the hop and then test it. Often resulting in being massively under the power limit once I got my hop set for my chosen weight (either 0.32 or 0.36) and then requiring me to come back home, disassemble the gearbox to install a new spring to suit. (Later on I bought an SVD-S that had a quick change spring I could change without taking the gun apart. So much easier!) By now, over a year and a half after originally getting it, I ended up with a 650mm 6.02 tightbore (maybe ZCI, I can't remember?) with a smaller window, and just a basic design bucking. (Laylax 60º blue) That seemed to give a reliable, fairly consistent performance that I just wasn't getting with any of the fancier buckings. Gearbox wise, I got one of the FPS nozzles with o-rings, some piston o rings from @ak2m4 and a guarder M110 that ended up giving me around 1.64J once hop was set.

Are you chronoing with or without hop up? And does the chrono have fresh batteries? I've had my own struggles with the Cyma SVD, that took a long time to get anywhere near resolving unfortunately!

I actually managed to make a purchase the other day, finally! Someone I messaged a couple of weeks ago and heard nothing from, and once the updates came in I saw that the advert was 8 months old so I figured I'd not hear anything. Then out of the blue, I got a reply and eventually got it all done and dusted!

I bought this on a whim recently, as a small project, and got to the point where I'm wanting to remove the safety to access the air nozzle/ cylinder assembly. Unfortunately, all the guides online don't cover the VM9, And it's just different enough so that the WE/Maruti etc. guides don't apply. I can't remove the safety Switch in order to remove the rest of it, and now I'm a bit stumped. (see photos below) It looks like I should just have to remove the right hand lever, the little securing screw and then rotate the main safety on the left side clockwise so that it's free from the slide and then it should just pop out easily. Does anyone have any experience with this, or suggestions? Thanks! *Never mind! It was the actual nozzle/cylinder unit itself that was getting in the way. That needed to be slid forwards as you remove the safety. I knew that once I'd posted this, I'd end up sorting it! 🤡😂

Try one of these. https://www.bztactical.co.uk/rebel-battery-1450mah-lipo-11-1v-30c-stick-mini-tamiya Looks to be smaller than the one you linked. What gun is it for?

I've had both the clones and TM, and tbh. I'd never go back to a clone nowadays. The trigger isn't as good, the mags are finicky, and the feed lips are more fragile - they don't load as smoothly. Plus, I've always had issues with performance of the clones after a while, where the power drops, and often doesn't feed. Contrast that with the Marui versions that I've had for several years, and had no issues.

A Christmas bargain! Cyma M40A3 For only £400, and no details whatsoever. You don't even get the scope. 🥲 https://prefired.co.uk/ads/cyma-cm-700a-m40a3-spring-sniper-rifle/

As Galvatron says, this is actually a good time in Airsoft to get back into the second hand market sales, with discords updated TOS crushing one of the most popular platforms for sales. Advertising would definitely be one route to add sustainability to it on a financial basis, as well as what some of the other second hand sales sites do; (Either Prefired or Used Airsoft, I can't remember which) which is to charge a small amount weekly for adverts, with the option of additional services, such as highlighting, putting adverts to the top etc. as well as buying a 6 month to a year membership that allows unlimited adverts without paying for each one individually. The platform itself is sound, it's unfortunately just the deficient IQ of some of the users that have made it a pain to use (but this can be said about Airsoft as a whole really!) As an aside @ItsDave had anyone ever messaged you before, regarding the lack of emails/notifications, or was this just an unknown issue to you?

Just had a brief talk with one of the admins or staff of AirsoftHub after an idle message that tbh, I didn't think would actually go anywhere. They've said that the notifications issue should be rectified now, and they've also added dates to all placed adverts so you can see when they were posted now. After this, it goes a long way to seeing why a lot of sellers I've messaged never actually reply; as some adverts were over a year old in some cases! If anyone else uses it, either as a seller or buyer, can you post and let us know if the notifications issue has actually been sorted? It'd be much appreciated. I'd do it myself, but there's nothing on there I can find that I'm interested in, now I can see the age of each advert! 😅 Ah, what timing! 😂 I literally just posted about this and saw that someone had replied as I was typing it out. @ItsDave I'm the one that messaged you earlier, I'll be quite honest, after all the other views and comments regarding the site, I assumed that it was already a dead site, or at least on its way there. I messaged more out of frustration than anything, not expecting to hear back from anyone, but I'm very surprised and pleased to have got such a quick reply, let alone actually having anything done about it, so I'll say thank you for that!