ParHunter

Thank you guys! Really good suggestions and information.

Hi, If you read my post again you will see that I was a sniper in my army days (long time ago). So this is not YouTube driven 😉 Thanks for the advice. Soldering won’t be the problem, I am more worried about not putting small mechanical things back together (e.g. in case I have to take the gears out etc). If you can just open up a gearbox and solder a mosfet in without having to take the whole thing apart then that might be an option.

Hi, I am starting out at Airsoft and I am looking for a decent starter gun that I could upgrade to a DMR at some point. A little background, I am not the youngest player on the field (my son got me into airsoft) so I won’t be running around all day long. I trained as a sniper in my youth but at that time we weren’t as equipped as modern day snipers. We basically just had a slightly modified H&K G3 with a scope. So while I don’t want to start out as a sniper straight away I would like to have a gun that shoots accurately on longer distances. I don’t want to spend too much initially as I don’t know how serious I am going to take this hobby (I’ve got other hobbies that take up time). But I don’t want to buy something that isn’t good enough to continue. I normally don’t buy bottom of the range but it seems with Airsoft you have to upgrade your gun anyway to get a decent setup (tight bore barrel 6.03, new hop up, mosfet etc). So I am wondering whether I should get a cheap gun like the Double Bell MK12 SPR MOD0 or 1 for about £170 and then upgrade, pay £100 more for a Specna Arms MK12 (not great features compared to similar priced Specna M4s) or pay around £350 for a CYMA C097 platinum (M4) or C098 platinum (AR10 based). Could I save myself the upgrade when I go with a slightly better model like the CYMA platinum or am I better off starting with a cheap model and upgrading it? What do you think? What would a basic upgrade cost (barrel, hop up and mosfet)? £100 or more? I could do the barrel, hop up myself however I wouldn’t want to touch the gear box to install a mosfet. Can you suggest any other models that might suit a DMR starter? Regarding later upgrading the spring and locking it to semi auto. Is a programmable mosfet the way to go for locking it? So on my wish list would be: Quick change spring (deal breaker) Rotary hop up (could be upgraded) Tight bore barrel (can be upgraded) Mosfet (that could be set to semi auto only) Thanks for your suggestions.