TheFull9

Brit/American crossover webbing set is finally in a decent place. Should hopefully only need a few very minor tweaks now (famous last words). Pic added for @Diemaco

I misunderstood the OP originally, but FN posted on IG and clarified this. They're only stopping making/selling the civilian versions they sell in the US, military production is unchanged. I don't know the MSRP per se, but a taking a quick look on GunBroker the various rifles seem to start at around $3700 and go up from there, which most likely means they were hardly actually selling any. With companies as big as FN, even if something is making profit they often won't deem it worthwhile unless there's really huge volume/money in it. I'd imagine their more 'conventional' 5XX series pistols and the FN15 ARs do a good bit more volume since they're more suited to the American market and much cheaper. I remember many years ago there was a relatively brief period where they sold semi-only F2000s in the states (called the FS2000 I think), which I believe were made in Belgium then shipped over the pond. But again I'd bet there was very little profit in it comparatively speaking, so they're fairly rare and collectible in the US now. Does leave me wondering if they'll end up cancelling the likes of the PS90, M249S etc in future.

That would line up, I'm not sure about the Gen 4 and 5 but the TM Gen 3 is known to be just a smidge bigger than RS making holster fitment a gamble, and WE cloned TM of course. Surprised it got fully locked in that hard though, that was unlucky. I need to now very carefully and gently try my TM in my issue Radar...

Interesting news. One the one hand not surprising because it's never been truly popular and paying to keep those production lines going for decades now must have finally gotten annoying enough for the company to cut their losses, but on the flip side they really tried hard to push it for so long that it almost felt like they'd just have it on the back burner forever more. Time has definitely moved on since it was designed though, the more recent LICC offerings have a lot more potential moving forward. Given the popularity in games etc I don't see the airsoft replicas going anywhere any time soon, if ever. Most certainly not for a long time because most of airsoft always lags years and years behind. You talking about a specific manufacturer or version? FN still churns them out in the US. I've not researched other mfgs, but there will be various other production around the world too I'm sure, given the large number of governmental forces that have adopted them and the massive proliferation/popularity of the design. Not the SCAR, their standard rifle is basically a 416 though.

Tape is not tape is not tape. There's a million different kinds out there. Hockey tape is popular on firearms for the same reason it is in said sport - very grippy, tough, not too prone to holding water to my knowledge. There's a 'tactically oriented variant' called Goon Tape (cringe) which sells pretty well over the pond. Skateboard tape is of course a classic in this area which has been bodged on to firearms for decades because, again, mega rough texture, super hard wearing and I think it's waterproof or certainly resilient enough for the purpose at hand. The McNett/self adhesive camo stuff is also a big one that you can see used over and over again by civvie shooters, SF guys etc etc on key areas around foregrips and on handguards/securing tape switch cables. Just picked some up myself, has a very textured surface to it and can last a long while.

I remember stumbling on this a while back when checking out their Spitfire sling attachment, but personally decided I'd never use such a setup for a sling and I'd say there's a reason it isn't popular out there. That aside, I'm assuming from a quick look at your profile that you'd use it with a real stock, so that part would hold up (for a while at least), but I'd be suspect of the other airsoft parts of 99% of replicas holding up to the weird leverage forces if you ever run it as a 1-pt. If you have found a real life pic you want to replicate for the funsies then fair enough obviously, but I'd say that lower receiver end plates with QD sockets/normal side-of-stock QDs are infinitely more popular for a reason.

Any idea why the pistol was stuck per chance?

Old config of my LV-119. Hasn't changed that much, just moved the pouches up to the front and re-arranged that cummerbund itself to be more like the new Reactive 'bund for the LV-120.

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Literally just a TM.

If it helps at all; trying to shoot the No1 in the standing unsupported like that is very much on the harder end of the shooting difficulty scale. Looks like the range wasn't that long but the target was a tiny little round plate? Pretty tricky. World War era bolt-actions are long with all the weight out the front by comparison to modern military carbines and the open/notch sights on that variant are, imho, far worse and harder to use than the aperture on a No4 (or indeed most guns that came later) - which you probably realised by comparison to the .22. Obviously it's only a short clip so I don't know, but if you spent the whole 70 seconds up in the aim, you'll have gotten less steady as time went on, you're only human there's no beating that. That's a standard issue that people run in to when learning and is worst in the standing position. You can get away with it for longer as your stance gets lower, but even then it's usually better to relax and only spend as long aiming as is necessary to get your ducks in a row before firing. Not massively transferable to airsoft of course, but peeps who can shoot usually at least manage to look a bit better in candid site photog pics I find.

Back when my grey Scorpion was fresh out of the box, made for a good platform to build on. The hype for these has obviously thoroughly died off compared to a few years ago, but I features-wise I really like these as something inbetween the NGRS and a standard AEG. Definitely 'feels' close to the real thing and takes real handguards etc with usually minimal work.

Very pleasant yeah. Well once I got there anyway, there was that tube strike which made the travel a 'mare and the current middle east situation caused the usual protests outside to get cranked up a notch. Very enjoyable once I was there though. I could be slightly biased since I've always got in for free though. No the gun world defo stole that idea from.. I dunno whoever was doing sew/iron on patches, but they added velcro, then the airsoft companies started knocking off those designs and it spread from there (just like basically everything in airsoft).

An older config of the TM SCAR-L. Has a different stock and forend kit now, but this setup was pretty decent all things considered.