TheFull9

TM pistols are never a problem they're a solution, the solution to wanting a really reliable pistol that shoots great.

Sorry. Man.. the Nemesis was ridiculously good. I think they've long stopped making it which is bonkers because for the money that's honestly a high contender for the best value bit of kit anyone could ever get and it's just the ideal size for skirmishing. Makes the garand thumb chest rig people jizz their pants over look a bit shit to be honest. For me, when this comes up (which is obviously not uncommon in online discussions) it's not actually about airsoft or kit or whatever, the question is a bigger one. If I had kids and a mortgage and bought everything I do then I'd have 0 savings and probably a good bit of debt, and getting debt for tacticool stuff is most definitely stupid. But that's not the case, I've saved and invested more than I've spent on this malarkey. Never having any savings and waiting for every pay cheque to come in to then immediately splurge on something you've been eyeing the past 3 weeks since last being paid is an almost sure fire sign you're shit with your money - speaking generally. Like the financial version of a dog on a leash just absolutely frothing to go chase a rabbit it won't even catch. I do a very, very similar thing to alxndr, I've got a word doc list I started around 2006 or so where I type in both everything I have bought and the things I'm planning on getting. Apart from anything I do do quite ambitious builds sometimes and I need to note it all down or I'd forget which parts are compatible with what etc. But as above, if it's not 'in the plan' I don't generally just buy stuff on a whim that I happen to come across and the aforementioned plan is very long term. I check the New Products pages at many big retailers frequently, but unless something crops up out of the blue that I've been really wanting for many years (usually 3-4+) then it's not going in the basket if it's not planned.

The rear sight is odd admittedly but yeah I had 3 of those many years ago and the guns themselves are very nice for sure. That old school SR-15 setup pre-freefloat handguards is a real throwback, specially for those who know the old pre-NGRS TM AEG that's similar looking.

I roll my own for my IG sometimes. As a Crye/NV owner but non-milsim'er this is a topic I enjoy.

I don't own a Specna so unless someone jumps in who knows you'll have to get digging for info on the thread specs on the upper receiver. It's probably the generic AEG thread and lots of AEG freefloat handguards will fit, but you'll wanna check.

Well.. this thread has made me decide I need a timed BFG along with my impact 😑

What did it have on it? The longer version of that; if you want to keep the barrel nut. They're usually handguard-specific. Alternatively all you'll need is an adjustable spanner to get that barrel nut off assuming it's not glued/heavily loctite'd.

I don't know of many sites now that allow auto up close? So the flip magnifier loses its' usefulness. The Elcan product line is notorious for being rock hard irl, hence it's seen a lot of machine gun usage with various forces over the years. I'm not really up on the latest clone optics, but holy warrior seems to be the way to go. Got a few Aimpoint T-X knock-offs here and an EoTech magnifier and they're lightyears ahead of the generic chinese optics I've got from the early days of such products being available. Though I also have an HWO EXPS3 that doesn't turn on and seemingly the battery compartment is just straight up built/sized wrong for any battery type I've ever seen, so the usual risks with aliexpress type dealings are ever-present.

Bet you didn't even conduct the swap in a hermetic chamber to contain the TM dust 🙄 It's half a joke... I think we're in that early-adopter phase right now with people treading unknown ground with the platform. It may be a one off of course, or maybe this design really doesn't like to be not-stock, or maybe it was a bad early batch, no way to say for sure. Personally I'm only changing the externals on mine and the plan is for that to be all I do, at least for say 3-5 years, even then only in the event they release more variants, the user base grows and really good MOSFETs come out perhaps that are even better than the stock one. My SOCOMs have a few little internal changes in 2 out of 3 (Deans swaps excluded), but I've left one dead stock and I'll bring one modded + the stock gun to any given game, which has worked nicely for many years I have to say.

To me, there's been some misinterpretation of a bad translation. For my money, they're just saying that it functions the same as the real one, which is a stretch of a bullet point since TMs already do but anyway. There's been all-steel 1911s before for well over a grand, can't remember the brand now just remember redwolf advertising them. So yeah, basically all steel (especially if machined from billet) where possible with some 7075 internals makes the price quite understandable. I'd say the 'new magazine design not previously available' is the real thing to look in to, again, to my reading. Maybe they've pulled off some magic in that tiny single stack volume? Who knows.

Is that a pistol brace?? You'd never catch me putting one of those on a RIF..

I think, sufficed to say, he doesn't have many days-away under his belt. I find Christian Craighead fans a little OTT sometimes but in fairness the bloke has (I think) 14 medals and I was pretty chuffed with myself to get my 3rd recently.

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It is still perfectly usable. And then some. The R was my second pistol purchase 'way back when' and I got the E2 some time later for the slight step up and so that I'd have two solid sidearms compatible with the same sets of mags and holsters. Personally I much prefer the E2 grips, but performance between the two in the real world is really bloody similar in my experience.

Maybe two at a stretch, if the gun worked for a short while but it turned out they just did a mediocre job, assuming they've learnt. That's basically what's happened to me recently. Example - I've been going to LC's Engineering for pushing a decade I think, super nice guy and I think myself lucky to call him a personal friend. He did some AEG internals for me maybe 4-5 years ago, I only used said RIFs once or twice in that time then took them to Luke at Negative a few months ago for more serious internal upgrades. Unfortunately the internals were quite prematurely worn when he took them apart due to some not-ideal build decisions/tweaks. As it stands LC's is also about 2 years in to a complete scratch build for me, for which I've slowly been drip feeding him the 'perfect' parts I've been sourcing from literally anywhere and everywhere. I definitely wasn't going nuclear and just scrapping the whole project, driving to his place and taking all my stuff back. Since he only put the GB together a few months ago and hopefully he's learnt with further experience but we'll see. If it doesn't run great then worst case I'll take the parts elsewhere, they're pretty pricey tbh so most will be able to be used again.

To be honest I primarily had a suspicion that someone at TK might've pressed the wrong button in their site config somewhere, and I know I can't say this without sounding super-blowhard but since I know some shop owners and gear maker owners etc I just try and remedy this stuff while I can; otherwise the untolds thousands I've spunked going to Shot show would be wasted 😂

No idea if this site is legit - https://www.tacticalgeartrade.co.uk/flyye-industries/flyye-1000d-bandoleer-molle-platform-webbing-belt-coyote-brown.html If you can't be sure then the usual sites in the far east have them if you google 'molle bandolier' or 'bandoleer'. Personally I'd recommend a chest rig or PALS belt since there's a reason those are so popular and the bandoliers are far scarcer, but there's options to try.

You mean the tiny bit that's showing through your eye-pro that nobody's gonna spot from any distance that matters? 😂 In the last picture I thought you'd just uploaded one of another bloke entirely by accident.

Nice, been waiting on this after various brands got excited and started putting out the HKey versions perhaps too quickly. Had an AG comp and silencer arrive the other week and they're nicely made for sure.

Had to bring over SMTAN's post.

I passed @Skara's experience/findings on to the owner of Tactical-Kit (good, chill bloke and former airsofter btw) in the hope of finding the truth and maybe making things better in the process; this is the sitch, directly copied from my IG DMs: Thanks for the info. We are going to change our shipping to Italy. We used to ship via Royal Mail but there was issue with Italian customs and we had three customers open PayPal disputes. All the goods were finally delivered so we ended up losing the goods and the money. After that we banged up the shipping to Italy and shipped via DHL on a next day option so to avoid future losses Unfortunately due to shipping costs increasing because we moved to DHL instead of Fedex we’ll have to put our Euro prices up Been one of those lose-lose situations really, unless you're Italian and got totally free kit a while back lol.