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I mean that's the same for everything in this lark 😂 but airsoft stuff is too cheap to ever say anything much with certainty, hell probably applies to the likes of Magpul too I'd imagine they pump out millions of plastic bits per year so there's gonna be tolerance wobble. I'm sure someone here said their Magpul handguard dropped on easily, whereas with the one I have it can just about be persuaded on and is then one major sweary effort to remove, totally not viable for game use and currently being filed and sanded in to submission. On the other hand my VFC old school Surefire style lighted handguard fits great and just needed a hairs width of plastic reaming out of the pin hole to work perfectly, but I'd bet other people who try other examples of that handguard on their own TMs will have different experience. I had to have a LOT of work done to a real collapsible F stock to get it to fit, not a good idea at all. Personally my sum up is that I'd only expect TM NGRS MP5 stuff to just drop in, maybe the couple of laylax bits. RS and VFC GBB stuff is often close enough to be viable after work, but probably expect it to not fit out of the box. I don't think any other AEG MP5 stuff is viable except maybe some optics mounts but probably with work. If you approach it like that, you hopefully won't go super far wrong.

@BigStew I have a real mount that fits, so *presumably* they all will, also anything for the VFC GBB line seems good, or at least close. I think the old style AEG stuff often needs work from what someone else posted (?).

I'm just all about the late 90s vibes hon.

Think this is the latest FS thread.. It's extremely rare I have any sort of CS experience at all with an airsoft shop, but I've placed a few orders with FS recently. With my current living situation (have my old bedroom back home, mostly live on base 95%+) I'll sometimes order something then not touch it for months, so I can kinda lose track now and then. I bought some stuff what I thought was maybe 3 months ago, then another order about 3 weeks ago. E-mailed asking to return an item from the older order and 2 items from the newer - all 3 of said items totally unused, brand new condition in their packaging and fully ready for resale. Bearing in mind I once returned a multicam shirt to an american retailer 2 years later, which they were fine with again because it was new with the tags and in it's bag ready for resale so I thought this would be ok. Worst case they can just say no I'd be fine with that too. The reply I got was.. interesting. On the one hand, turned out my older order was actually 6 months ago and I'd lost track. The items had been sat there sealed up for all that time, so if they'd just said 'as per our policy which is X, we'll not accept a return'; I have no idea what the actual law is personally but that's fine, whatever. Being told, quote "it's unfair for you to even ask" however did feel patronising and I caaaan't stand being condescended to so I wasn't a fan of that. Just a professionally worded reply that I'd normally expect from a CS e-mail saying no, was all that was necessary. I returned the 2 items from the more recent order following their policy strictly, got those refunded pretty quickly so credit where it's due there. Bit of a mixed bag.

Either the sides get folded up a bit by the headband or you make cuts/do some sewing work.. or buy a really oversized hat to wear over it I guess? First 2 are what happens though, that's why folks wear either baseball caps under headsets or attach them to helmets. They're 2 items that are from different areas/eras of military kit.

Of the 3, the Razors and Leights are probably what I'd steer people towards. I've been on the range with the Razors, can say they work for sure, the Howard Leights have been the go-to budget electronic ear pro for a lot of people for absolutely donkeys, see them all the time in the states; definitely proven - simple but effective. Neither are quite as fancily made as 3M or Sordin naturally but what you lose in electronics function and military application is made up for in price. Earmor on the other hand tries to do a full on tactical comms headset but at the sport ear defence price, reality is there's no free lunch and my guesstimation is that's why their reviews are all over the place. I get why that particular combo appeals to the airsoft market, 100%, but to me that's a product that'd only be for costume posing, not actually playing a game that involves pyrotechnics.

Raided the dusty back shelves of 3 different shops for my weird old-man preferences (a lot of it is in foliage green).

Assuming the catch isn't the issue, all you could do is bend the metal outwards (which can cause a pinch and make things worse) or file some away, maybe sanding depending on how much material you need to remove. If you do this for a certain type of mag, then other types may be overly loose. Depends what else you've tried basically, mags wise. Best to borrow + test fit some other types, only takes a sec, see what works and out of those see which others you'd maybe want to buy/use.

Picture of a guy who got shot by a 50mm weapon: *This page left intentionally blank* Barrett have done a handful of bullpups actually well worth a look in to. M95, M99 and the M82A2 prototype off the top of my head. The M95 I mainly know about because it was the main unlock for the Sniper class in Battlefield 2 and I once sniped a heli pilot out of an Mi-28 mid flight and that was perhaps the highlight of my teenage years (I was too scared to ask a girl out on a date).

I've always put LiPos just under the top cover in mine; fake gas cylinder and piston come out leaves plenty of room, obviously easy access (not quite as quick on an A3). Pretty sure I had around 12-1400mah in there iirc.

Probably 4-5 times a year or so (which is actually more than I was a few years ago). Opportunities where I actually have good access to my own gear and there's a site nearby I'm enthused to play at aren't super common. And honestly, I am lazy, I don't want to have to do my normal washing/ironing/shopping/cleaning one day of the weekend then add on loadout prep and then spend the sunday night washing/airing out/de-prepping airsoft stuff. If I'm honest with myself, I never deliberately 'got in to' airsoft per se even when I started, I just wanted the M4 from a video game I was super in to as a teenager and to have the different barbie accessories for it. At some point in the researching and acquisition of said replica I found out about skirmishes and it only seemed like the logical thing to go along, but the first few I went to were pretty 'meh' experiences overall. Not bad, not amazing. I'd say I force myself to go out now and again to breathe fresh air, run about and actually use all this stuff because if I let the little gremlin in the back of my mind win and I acted like the hermit man it tells me to be, well then it just wouldn't be a good thing overall in my life.

I've mostly never bothered with adjusting airsoft optics tbh. The target is either close enough that I just use instinctive aiming, or it's far enough that an airsoft gun can't print any sort of useful group at said range in order to zero. A very coarse adjustment to get the wide area of spray at 50m+ roughly kinda midde-ish within the actual glass window (optic type dependant) is all I bother with and you can often do that just pre game while making any necessary hop adjustment for the bbs you've got that day. Then once in game you simply put the baddie in the middle of the glass, spray, and pray. When I have zero'd a RIF it was at around 10m, 15 max, as I only have the TM bb catcher that's got a target area roughly 9-10" square. The one time I used it to zero (was shooting a KWA GBB) I had to be very much sub 15m in order to shoot groups that were actually small enough to clearly define a mean point of impact and then be able to make any sort of useful sight adjustment.

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Not seen anything, it might be a bit niche for PTS, maybe, fingers crossed. From what I've seen generally there's (comparatively) not a ton of different types of mags out there for any of the normal AEGs even less so any of the GBB MP5s. Don't think there's a clone of the gun itself yet? That'll be part. RS wise the standard HKs mags are the only widely known style I'd say, with the old straight 30s a fair bit behind, then maybe a few know of the clear ETS ones.

If only every big business would suicide itself by making the 1927 sub-variant of a sub-variant of an air training pistol used by a Belgian scout troop I once heard of in a story my grandfather told me in the 90s. Sorry man you don't get to complain and simultaneously be literally exactly the reason for the thing you're complaining about 🤣 I'd say hundreds of thousands to get the production line going for a whole new gun, the injection mould for just 1 plastic part can cost many thousands. I've only just been noticing recently that some of the original all-plastic AEGs from around the turn of the millenium have been disappearing. I'm frankly shocked they've kept as many different models alive even in batch production for as long as they have.

I kinda want to do either the 'M4A1' or AK-47 from MW2 2009 and while the AR is pretty easy to closely replicate the AK seems a lot harder. I found a picture of a really well done effort: In the game (remaster, but it's accurate to the fuzzy model in the original): I cannot find a 47 with a side rail though, which makes sense in terms of replicating real rifles but given the random non-existent variants that do get made I was initially hopeful. I don't want to do an M as a base. I did learn basic riveting long long ago, but I'm yet to see a home-applied AK side mount on an airsoft gun so I'm sceptical of that tbh. This is probably more a thought/discussion exercise than anything tbh, but if anyone does have any thoughts I'd be interested to hear them.

Does anywhere actually have decent stock of Mk5s/useful smokes?

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Of course you get better bloody pics than I ever did 🙄

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