Ian_Gere

For me it's more than just time efficiency, i'm hoping that i will not have to think about cover while i faff - that it will make using bangs more effective because i can get one out and throw it without breaking the momentum of the attack - never giving the opposition time to think.

That battery is a deal breaker for me - the contacts are just spring loaded brass pins - they probably need to be 11.1V just to overcome the resistance of those stupid connectors for an average rate of fire. I haven't actually looked at how easy it would be to replace with Deans, but there's very little space in a lower handguard anyway, so once you add 2 connectors and their wires, I just don't think it looks like a good proposition. I mean, yeah, you can get small LiPo's but do you really want to be changing batteries twice in a day?

Dear old UNCompany - whose CEO must have shares in their fav courier or something because those RIF carrying fellows will receive the instruction "deliver this parcel to the customer" but will hear "bend the customer over and don't use lube"...

I've ordered a couple. It will be 3 weeks before i skirmish them though, so a review will have to wait until then.

I use a 45L bergen mostly. As an example, my WAS RICAS fits inside it and kneepads, elbowpads, and eyepro inside the vest, goretex kecks and small towel flat against my back inside the interior flap, mags and BB's stuffed into the corners, lunch & water on top - so you should have no problems. I don't usually use the rocket pouches so I zip them off to save weight, but on days when i want the kitchen sink or for weekend maneuvers they come in handy, plus the built in straps underneath and on top for a tent and sleeping mat. Cheap and reliable. To carry my guns I use either a Milan rocket launcher sock to which I added a zip around the lid (for my longest ones) or a surplus duffle bag (although my AK-74 sticks out by a few cm so i cover the muzzle with a canvas bag, but a sock would do it).

I'm 99% certain the CM.042 is a TM clone, not a VFC clone. Internally they are the same though.

I have used BB King 0.2s and they're ok - never had a misfeed or jam. I think that they're not quite as good as Blaster for ultimate range, but there's less than 5m in it. For CQB though they are fine and of course you don't need the performance at range of 0.25's either. What really recommends them is price - so much cheaper than Blaster that the difference is worth saving. Don't discount 0.12's simply on weight. The problem is that most of them are really really poor quality, but there are high quality 0.12's. Yeah they are shit in any moving air, but for indoor CQB that would not be an issue. Better to use high quality 0.12g BB's in a low power pistol or shottie and get hits than watch people sit back and change mags while they wait to dodge a 0.2g BB which you also had to aim up to reach 20m...

How much?

Can you tell us which Bastards, what you're comparing them to, and in what gun/s, please?

It depends what you want - most of the big UK retailers don't actually stock a huge variety of parts. In my experience you just have to search for what you want and go with whomever has it - sometimes you'll be lucky enough to be able to choose the cheapest of 2... but then again I never need any M4 bits... Bullseye Country Sport are great for prices (their shipping costs are low also, even though they are in NI - which just goes to show you how outrageous the shipping prices of many UK retailers actually are) and speed of postage, plus they're helpful if you email 'em about something (and they reply pretty quick too and not just during business hours). Fire-support prices are high and their shipping costs are bordering on taking the piss, but they can be relied upon to get your part to you quickly - so if it's Wednesday and you want to skirmish your busted AEG on Saturday, f-s is probably your best bet. Having said that, Patrolbase are going up in my estimation for reliable speedy delivery also and their prices are a smidge better.

No... really?

Bastards are said to be the best currently for sale in the UK - patrolbase have them. Never tried 'em so i can't actually recommend. Blaster 0.25's are good in my experience - i don't believe that the slight extra accuracy from Devils is enough improvement to standard AEG shooting to be worth paying extra for. In a DMR, yeah, but I'd be looking at a heavier weight BB in a DMR anyway.

I like 'em. The unpainted steel is an issue, but as you say tape will sort it out. Personally I would have a go with heatshrink to see if I could get a neater result first. I would buy some right now, but I don't use tan loadouts. Give me a shout if you make any in green. Oh yeah, are you attaching the striker strip to the holder?

Weeeeeeeeell... that's either an Element M105, or they have cut one. @11-15rps (standard 8.4V battery with stock wiring stylee) it's probably fine, but cutting springs leaves 1 end with an angle rather than flat, so there is going to be some lateral force introduced - IMO running a gb fast with that kind of thing is asking for trouble. Unless they have tuned the airseal as well as fitted an M100...

They give you a report of their chrono test. That was what I was asking - just trying to figure out what spring they may have replaced the original with.

What is the average of the chrono test?

Getting paint off guns:

No that is nothing like I'm imagining. I mean a grip at right angles to the barrel, about 18" long, at about 45 degrees from the horizontal. With some kind of adjustable spring...

It's oh so wrong but I actually quite like the red AK too ICS AK's are not parts compatible with TM/clones or VFC/LCT/clones but they do make a wooden furniture kit for their own AK-74's and the finish on it is lovely (although it's not the right colour for Russian AK's). Otherwise it's the dremmel and, in that case, you may find it cheaper to buy real steel (if you see what I mean) furniture to work from rather than airsoft parts (except the pistol grips - real ones can fit onto GBBR AK's but not AEG's). You do not have to wait for a UKARA number to convert your IF into an RIF. The defence applies to you so long as you are an airsofter. You should never have your guns uncovered in public outside of an airsoft site anyway and the very fact that you are there at a site airsofting means you are covered, so if you want rid of the red, get rid of it.

TBH Chris, bullpups are hardly new anymore either and if the point is to create a PDW which gives a downed pilot, for eg, a chance against someone with a MBR, then my money is on design the thing from the ground up, because ease of use is as much a factor in the effectiveness of firearms as calibre and muzzle velocity, surely. I don't know what the answer is off the top of my head, but next to no distance between the pistol grip and off hand grip is definitely not it. I mean, in this day and age of excellent materials science, why does the off hand grip even need to be inline? It must surely be possible to create a grip which could unfold and extend out of the side of the weapon, preferably also down like an upside down handlebar so that you don't have to hold your off hand up to the height of your shoulder, with adjustable stiffness to manage recoil throwing aim off, and you could probably design an off-centre but still perfectly stable bipod into such a thing - nylon fibre and titanium tube = light and strong = Bob's the geezer shagging your mum. But my point wasn't that real steel similar to this had no function anyway, it was that the PDR-C is a pig ugly object without a single redeeming aesthetic feature!

Which would be all very well, Chris, if ergonomic studies had shown that the people of today had shorter arms than those of 40-50 years ago. I just don't believe that they have...

OK, so having ruminated and cogitated, I've come to the conclusion that we are still worrying over nothing. While it is true that firearms legislation covers things other than what a dictionary would call a firearm, even tasers, it is very specific about things which propel projectiles from a barrel using expanding gas as propellant. I was going to look it up to be certain, because I cannot remember the exact figures, but then I realised I don't have to - it definitely talks about double figures of foot/pounds (14 maybe?). Anyway, these are made from very light polymer foam, just not bendy like a Nerf dart, and you can see them in flight... So yeah, maybe they are carrying more than 1 Joule, or even than 2.34J (0.2g BB@500FPS), but those figures are not the subject of law outside NI anyway and even 10 foot/pounds = no way. They definitely do not consider energetic potential in with those figures. If that were the case, something which was legal downstairs could be illegal upstairs due to gravitational potential energy. It was an interesting idea tho Anyway, if people are using TAG nades in the UK, I want to be one of 'em! It's just a case of deciding which launcher to go for now and whether to go underslung or standalone.

I'm going to come back to this after i've eaten and had a think, because, while i agree that if there's a way to stop fun with pyros, someone will find it, i also suspect that there must be a provision in the law which differentiates between pyros and explosive charges as defined as exploding munitions - because otherwise airbomb fireworks would be illegal, as would TLSFX mortar rounds.

Yeah, Skirmish are pretty cool - so long as you're not a dick they'll let you use just about anything. They've allowed home made bangs partially buried and fired by radio det before - obviously they were sure that the bangs were not mental, but they were bloody loud! It would depend on their (AW's or anyone else) interpretation of the relevant laws, eh? Edit: what i mean is, the old bill have got more important things to be doing than chasing around after people selling airsoft pyros, so even if the legal position isn't 100% certain, it would take a pretty determined campaign of jobsworthery to actually prevent anyone selling them.

Has anyone heard anything about Danmu full steel GP-30 replicas? ...afaik only available from gunnerairsoft.com but firing any 40mm MOSCART and thus also these TAG nades. I'm still concerned that it would make an AK too front-heavy for comfort, but probably less so than the D-Boys zamak effort which weighs in at a staggering 1.45Kg loaded.