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As mentioned by hitman, they did, muzzle energy with 9 is 'more' than 22 but range would still be similar (i.e. very little, 2-300m range tops and with extreme arc) whereas you could push a Minimi to over a K in the right circumstances. Muzzle velocity on 556 is a whole different league as you know.

Given the Hughes Amendment came in in '86 in the US then barely any (if any at all) would've made it in to civilian hands that could fire automatic, meaning it's a self-loading .22 that has the same potency as a Ruger 10/22 with a drum mag. Sure .22 kills people but it's a super weak-sauce weapon compared to a military light machine gun. It might've scared ignorant people as often happens when firearms with large magazines and 'scary' looks are sold, but that's just dumb sheeple. Even now we can own self-loading .22s in the UK with no mag limits I'm aware of.

YouTube ad money has gone waaaaay down, how d'ya reckon full-time social media people keep the lights on? Charging for their promotions of stuff, it's not a rumour believe me. Airsoft is small fry, big guns channels in the states charge thousands for 'reviews' then ask you for Patreon; the price list for IV8888 is floating around out there somewhere, used to be anyway, all of them are at it. Subscribe to a bunch of them you'll see reviews for speicfic guns and Olight all weirdly publishing on the same day at almost the exact same time.

Been a good time recently for acquiring interesting camos.

As with firearms, airsoft is super heavily restricted in NYC. I can't remember the specific laws exactly but I have a very close friend who's a shooter and airsoft player who lives in the city and he doesn't have any of his kit with him, all gets left at his parents' house back in Texas. Obviously it's a great tourist spot in many other ways but probably one of the worst cities in the US to visit for anyone who wants to see anything gun shaped (speaking to all readers here).

You can't judge whether something's perfectly parallel or aligned in a photo anyway, that's purely the nature of how most common cameras capture what they see. I've taken many images myself (and seen many more) of rifles that are 100% built properly with straight barrels but they come out looking bent in that exact manner in photos. Long established phenomena.

As much as people on the internet would say they want it, you'd just not get the same efficiency, winter performance and/or recoil from a GBB Evo3 given it would hold about half the gas per mag. I remember the G5 being insanely popular maybe 3 or 4 years ago (at a rough guess) but that seems to have vanished now. I don't know of many more practical GBBr designs (if any) but I get the distinct vibe that HPA replaced gas-in-mag as the popular 'thing' for much of the community now; along with very practical AEGs like the ARP. A shame in a way but understandable in ways too.

Get what you're saying, but when you think 80s SAS you think Iranian Embassy (well most people do) and which gun gets all the headlines in media related to that? As per usual MP5s and specifically ones with gigantic-massive lights attached to them.

I don't think US military adoption is necessarily all it is, but that is a factor. I think the BHP is troubled by being super generic looking to the vast majority of people out there and for some reason it just never gained any notoriety in general. Even though is was seriously advanced and miles ahead of its' time when initially designed and manufactured (pre-WW2) you barely see it featured prominently in films or games (especially compared to more popular pistols) and if you do its' looks will cause most people who only know a tiny bit about guns to mistake it for a 1911. It is odd because some of the most elite units of Nazi Germany used it as well as SF and Airborne elements from the commonwealth on the Allied side, then it was our standard issue pistol until the Glock came along in the mid-2010s so it did many decades of service. However it did become rather obsolescent in the 80s once the M9, P226 and similar started hitting the scene and obviously the entire internet and FPS games and airsoft didn't take off properly until the 90s. An awful lot of the guns that are cemented in to the popular parlance these days are designs that were all the rage in the late 80s-early 90s. The BHP sits in the awkward middle ground where its' WW2 service isn't much known or documented, yet its' popularity had faded come the golden age of action movies and the birth of our modern shooting games (virtual and real). It also kinda suffers from being too good in a way as there's nothing that stands out about it, it's mostly a boringly effective handgun and even worse its' plain looking to most folks as I mentioned. It's not a big .45 with chunky rounds, doesn't have a crappy single stack mag capacity like the P-38, no weird action like the Luger, no crazy plastic-fantastic like the Glock (that blew people's minds in the 80s). Mediocre triggers and sights on most of them as well, so while it is pretty good it's not an amazing performer either and didn't have the best rep for reliability in some military circles. Never had any really large community/industry around it doing modifications either. There was a little bit when pistols were still legal and there was more competition in the UK/Europe, but obviously the 1911s and Berettas would have been 'the thing to have' for civilians in the US.

Were those combat shirts issued? I've not seen much about them online.

Just had a picture back from FMJ with the cerakote work I hired them to do on an LM4 I started customising years ago. It'll frankly be a relief to finally finish this build off.

So the goggles are legit right?

Modified yourself or purchased? Also battery type info would be handy please. It's something I've been considering doing for a long time and I want to get the low-down on a few different builds before I commit given that all my TM EBBRs are SOCOMs.

LiPo in the butt pad? Nice vortex too, good looking setup. I'd recommend mounting the light as far forward as you can to minimise lighting up your own silencer, same for the front BUIS and the sight radius thereof. If you don't have humongous hands maybe try not using the AFG and you'll be more easily able to rest your thumb on the pressure switch at all times (including when shooting from either shoulder), but obviously that's a personal ergonomic preference.

I'm deployed atm so no online gaming, but I managed to bring my laptop and cludge-bodge together a table so I'm working through a ton of old stuff (6-10 years) that I got for pennies in steam sales over the years but never got around to back home. Most pleasant surprise by far has been Timeshift, super solid FPS gameplay, cool mechanics and enemies, nice little RPG elements for a linear FPS and a story that you feel should be cliche yet actually just seems to work really well. Also Fallout 3 quality presentation of lore and backstory in the world, really good.

Do the mag extensions add capacity or just plastic shells so you can drop em for quick reloads? That gun is top of my list of potential pistol purchases right now, but I get all my airsoft specific bits from WGC but last I looked they had magically vanished all listings of TM Glocks from their site. Presumably on account of their realistic-ish trades.

lol, no concern for you big man you can do whatever the heck ya like to your own body. Just stating facts for the lurkers. Just like so many other fitness fads these things will have gone the way of the dodo in no too long.

They're super fashionable right now (because of crossfit, whether airsofters know it or not) and people who've not served don't know the inevitability of the lower-body joints injuries they have coming their way.

Is that a really old handguard per chance? Reminds me of some of the airsoft products you'd see back in the day when NiMh was the best battery type available and people liked to run the large types.

No we only wanted to hear about what happened during the airsoft game.

You can get copies of sorts specifically made for the TMs which will fit right on. 2 of mine have old PTS GBBR ASAP plates (back when PTS had the magpul license) and they needed some dremel work on the inside to fit around the buffer tube but it was pretty minor.

I asked at SHOT show, apparently they can't get enough gas capacity in to the current faux clips. There is also literally only room for those 7 BBs right now so I guess that area of the design is going to be getting more attention.