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My new CYMA CM.057S AEG Dragunov SVD with real steel NSP-3 night vision scope

My new CYMA CM.057S AEG Dragunov SVD with real steel NSP-3 night vision scope

My new CYMA CM.057S AEG Dragunov SVD with real steel NSP-3 night vision scope

My new CYMA CM.057S AEG Dragunov SVD with real steel NSP-3 night vision scope

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Lemon, the destroyer of taste." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
~ J. Keith Oppenmimer

TL;DR = Legislation Creep is a real phenomenon - if people with an irrational fear of legally held semi-auto firearms, which are not the firearms used in the majority of simply criminal offences, nor in any terrorist acts, get them banned; there's a very real possibility that the bandwagon will gain enough momentum for them to come after RIF's and maybe even airsoft as a whole. Sign The Petition!

re: IP-15-6110 draft to amend 91/477/EEC
European Commission Proposals to strengthen control of firearms ('Fact' Sheet)

Change.org EU : You cannot stop terrorism by restricting legal gun ownership. by stijn Vandamme

On the morning of 7th January 2015 Terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, with fully automatic, unregistered and illegal firearms.
Since then the EU has been preparing new legislation to ban semi-automatic firearms in the hands of law abiding EU citizens. Despite the fact that these weapons were not used by terrorists and are not even typically used by criminals.

They use unregistred[sic], untraceble[sic] black market full auto Kalashnikovs.

The new legislation has been on the back burner since April 2015, only to surface now on 18th of November, barely 5 days after a second attack in Paris.

The victims of this tragedy have not been buried yet, the criminals are still on the loose and the police has not even finished the investigation and yet the EU is announcing measures to prevent something like that from happening again.

Unfortunately nothing in the draft would have prevented these 2 attacks since neither were done with weapons that are now legal and would be banned with this new law. Nothing.

It is not logical and above all it is extremely unfair.
It is unfair to the victims, it is unfair to the law abiding citizens who's hobby and property will be taken away.

Say NO to the draft proposal announced on 18 November 2015
Do not restrict semi-automatic firearms 'because they look like an automatic firearm'

We the Citizens demand that the EU brings focus on the real problems:
- That the external borders of the EU are not protected.
- Our population has groups in it that refuse to allign[sic] with our democratic core values and our culture. (Personally I'm not convinced that this is actually a real factor in terrorism {but it's part of the blurb with the petition on change.org so I wouldn't leave it out}: just because it seems to make sense that it would be, does not mean it is actually happening; for eg that these terrorists in Paris have actually been sheltered or aided by any group/s living in the EU fulltime because this is where they choose to live {which seems to me to be the spin the more rabid anti-immigrationists would put on the petition author's statement}, as opposed to a group who may have come here as an advance party with the specific intention of later harbouring terrorists {which is an entirely different kettle of fish and should be dealt with by our intelligence services, rather than the kind of draconian measures the aforementioned mouth-frothers would call for.})
- Illegal arms trade is rampant within the EU.
- Criminals and terrorists have easier access to illegal weapons then legal gun owners have access to legal arms.

That is the current situation and this new legislation does NOTHING to adress[sic] those problems.
The 18 November IP-15-6110 draft to amend 91/477/EEC is not only populistic[sic] in nature, it is also an insult to our civil liberties and to the intelligence of the EU citizens as a whole.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6110_en.htm
 
Sign The Petition!
 
 
My own view: Knee-jerk legislation almost, if not quite absolutely, always produces bad law. In this case however it is also the worst kind of cynical emotional manipulation to try to piggyback legislation which had been prepared previously onto a 'convenient' disaster as the only means likely to get it passed. It's not just an insult to EU citizens' civil liberties and intelligence, it's very disrespectful to the victims and their families.

Oh my gonads, where to begin...?
 
Probably first on my list is to finish the upgrading of Ekaterina my Gen 1 E&L AKS-74M - I have nearly all the bits:
PDI 6.05mm TBB, ProWin hop up chamber, double O-ring piston head, maybe PDI 100% spring depending on FPS from excellent compression, Prometheus Purple (soft) hop bucking + PTFE tape, SHS single O-ring air seal nozzle is already in, SHS High Speed motor, lo res rewire & Deans connectors, KK BW3 MOSFET, + might buy Kanzen ceramic bearings for the quiet & may adjust the gear ratio depending on how well the KK BW3 pre-cocking function works...
 
Need a new hop solution for Svetlana my spring A&K SVD:
she has a PDI 590x6.01mm TBB and the airsoftpro.cz advanced hop chamber; i was using a PDI W-hold bucking but it was really struggling to lift anything heavier than 0.32g so I tried a Maple Leaf 60° and a variety of 0.4+g ammo all of which was jamming in the hop chamber even with no hop applied; so i surrendered and replaced the W-hold, only to find that she was now jamming 0.3g Blaster Devils which had been my ammo of choice previously - i dunno what the problem is, so opinions would be appreciated (but i want to keep the 6.01mm TBB b/c high compression means weaker spring which makes for easier cocking from tiny & awkward cocking handle {even with the extension}), but anyway I have also bought...
 
...an AEG SVD by CYMA whom I am yet to name:
her stock FPS is supposed to be 440 but my local, Skirmish Mansfield, allow semi-locked guns to fire at up to 500FPS with 0.2g BB's same as BASR's (you just have to leave 1 second between shots), so I expect I'll put a 6.01mm PDI barrel in her to get the extra 60 & may have to trim the spring a bit because gunfire.pl claim her inner barrel is 690mm long, which i think must be an exaggeration, but if it isn't, holy extra compression mucking up standard FPS calculations batman! They also claim that CYMA's clone of Real Sword is so good that the stock compression is excellent, which is a claim i'll have to investigate and, whilst i am a fan of CYMA hop rubbers in AEG's, I'm not so sure they're good enough for sniping, nor is their QC up to much when it comes to hop rubbers, so i may well have to replace it due to bad moulding anyway. No doubt I'll also end up wanting lightning fast trigger response, which may well lead to a pre-cocking MOSFET, hopefully another BW3 because it would be such a waste of money to end up having to buy a BTC Chimera (which can also do ROF adjustment by inserting micro-pauses between full auto shots, rather than slowing the cycle rate) for a semi-auto only gun...
 
Then there's the new Meister Arms AKS-74UN I have just bought:
at some point during 2016 I'll name her and do to her pretty much the same as Ekaterina. except for the ProWin hop chamber which i only bought because it was going cheap 2nd hand (not that they aren't better than the TM compatible design, they are, but E&L and Meister Arms have already copied that design very well, even though it does then limit you to a 1200mAh 11.1V LiPo under the top cover, at least the extra space allows you to put a MOSFET handily on top of the hop chamber which makes it easier to get at to plug in Deans)...
 
...and the massive pile of partially dismantled AK's I have lurking in the back room:
of note Tatiana my AKS-47 needs a new gearbox inserting and her woodwork roughing up; Sabine my tactical AK-47 needs her GB un-jamming and a hand made FIMO ergonomic pistol grip; my franken-AK build needs completing and painting in snow camo; my Post-Apocalyptic/Terrorist AK-47/Type 56-1 hybrid needs her real steel stock fitting and a few internals; plus there's enough bits to make a couple of very good guns and a couple of bargain bin specials to sell...
 
Oh yeah, and there's also Raisa my tactical RPK build:
needs her Zenit style handguard internal file job completed and, oh weep for the heresy, possibly some kind of Crane stock, because i need extendible and can hold a battery, because the top cover is full of faux piston and bolt carrier, which will not come out and still allow the top cover to be latched in place at all easily, but i may experiment with some box section ali to make her existing stock extendible; plus she needs one of those grip-pods which split into 2 halves (rather than the ones which shoot the legs out of the bottom and look silly both open & closed even on L85A2's ); internally she needs the full Ian-stylee high compression/high cycle rate works, locking off to semi, and fettling for a UK-wide-ish DMR FPS of 420...
 
And how could i forget? I also need to finish Vázlav my Vz 61 upgrade:
from my bits pile he needs his SHS gears fitted; Kanzen bearings; Magnesium Alloy piston; 130% spring; and despite prevailing opinions and his PDI 6.01mm TBB, I am going to R-hop him (just to see); I also still live in hope of finding a neodymium magnet motor which will fit in his tiny gearbox...
 
Loadout wise i want to complete my Soviet era tank crew scruffy mixed uniform; add authentic leather jump boots to my Soviet-Afghan war era VDV loadout; build a dedicated Smersh to go with Raisa consisting of 1 side PKM for a drum mag, the other side RPK pouches for long box mags, and the butt-pack modified with an elasticated post box hole in the top as a dump pouch; finish my ghillie suit; get a Partizan/SS Leto Gorka for bad weather...
 
Also need to get my knee healed up so i can go to the gym and get fit again - I plan to be on form by March for the Balshoy Bolshevik Bash 4, but i expect to be fit for long range sniping quite soon...
 
I feel like i'm still missing something...

Oh my gonads, where to begin...?
 
Probably first on my list is to finish the upgrading of Ekaterina my Gen 1 E&L AKS-74M - I have nearly all the bits:
PDI 6.05mm TBB, ProWin hop up chamber, double O-ring piston head, maybe PDI 100% spring depending on FPS from excellent compression, Prometheus Purple (soft) hop bucking + PTFE tape, SHS single O-ring air seal nozzle is already in, SHS High Speed motor, lo res rewire & Deans connectors, KK BW3 MOSFET, + might buy Kanzen ceramic bearings for the quiet & may adjust the gear ratio depending on how well the KK BW3 pre-cocking function works...
 
Need a new hop solution for Svetlana my spring A&K SVD:
she has a PDI 590x6.01mm TBB and the airsoftpro.cz advanced hop chamber; i was using a PDI W-hold bucking but it was really struggling to lift anything heavier than 0.32g so I tried a Maple Leaf 60° and a variety of 0.4+g ammo all of which was jamming in the hop chamber even with no hop applied; so i surrendered and replaced the W-hold, only to find that she was now jamming 0.3g Blaster Devils which had been my ammo of choice previously - i dunno what the problem is, so opinions would be appreciated (but i want to keep the 6.01mm TBB b/c high compression means weaker spring which makes for easier cocking from tiny & awkward cocking handle {even with the extension}), but anyway I have also bought...
 
...an AEG SVD by CYMA whom I am yet to name:
her stock FPS is supposed to be 440 but my local, Skirmish Mansfield, allow semi-locked guns to fire at up to 500FPS with 0.2g BB's same as BASR's (you just have to leave 1 second between shots), so I expect I'll put a 6.01mm PDI barrel in her to get the extra 60 & may have to trim the spring a bit because gunfire.pl claim her inner barrel is 690mm long, which i think must be an exaggeration, but if it isn't, holy extra compression mucking up standard FPS calculations batman! They also claim that CYMA's clone of Real Sword is so good that the stock compression is excellent, which is a claim i'll have to investigate and, whilst i am a fan of CYMA hop rubbers in AEG's, I'm not so sure they're good enough for sniping, nor is their QC up to much when it comes to hop rubbers, so i may well have to replace it due to bad moulding anyway. No doubt I'll also end up wanting lightning fast trigger response, which may well lead to a pre-cocking MOSFET, hopefully another BW3 because it would be such a waste of money to end up having to buy a BTC Chimera (which can also do ROF adjustment by inserting micro-pauses between full auto shots, rather than slowing the cycle rate) for a semi-auto only gun...
 
Then there's the new Meister Arms AKS-74UN I have just bought:
at some point during 2016 I'll name her and do to her pretty much the same as Ekaterina. except for the ProWin hop chamber which i only bought because it was going cheap 2nd hand (not that they aren't better than the TM compatible design, they are, but E&L and Meister Arms have already copied that design very well, even though it does then limit you to a 1200mAh 11.1V LiPo under the top cover, at least the extra space allows you to put a MOSFET handily on top of the hop chamber which makes it easier to get at to plug in Deans)...
 
...and the massive pile of partially dismantled AK's I have lurking in the back room:
of note Tatiana my AKS-47 needs a new gearbox inserting and her woodwork roughing up; Sabine my tactical AK-47 needs her GB un-jamming and a hand made FIMO ergonomic pistol grip; my franken-AK build needs completing and painting in snow camo; my Post-Apocalyptic/Terrorist AK-47/Type 56-1 hybrid needs her real steel stock fitting and a few internals; plus there's enough bits to make a couple of very good guns and a couple of bargain bin specials to sell...
 
Oh yeah, and there's also Raisa my tactical RPK build:
needs her Zenit style handguard internal file job completed and, oh weep for the heresy, possibly some kind of Crane stock, because i need extendible and can hold a battery, because the top cover is full of faux piston and bolt carrier, which will not come out and still allow the top cover to be latched in place at all easily, but i may experiment with some box section ali to make her existing stock extendible; plus she needs one of those grip-pods which split into 2 halves (rather than the ones which shoot the legs out of the bottom and look silly both open & closed even on L85A2's ); internally she needs the full Ian-stylee high compression/high cycle rate works, locking off to semi, and fettling for a UK-wide-ish DMR FPS of 420...
 
And how could i forget? I also need to finish Vázlav my Vz 61 upgrade:
from my bits pile he needs his SHS gears fitted; Kanzen bearings; Magnesium Alloy piston; 130% spring; and despite prevailing opinions and his PDI 6.01mm TBB, I am going to R-hop him (just to see); I also still live in hope of finding a neodymium magnet motor which will fit in his tiny gearbox...
 
Loadout wise i want to complete my Soviet era tank crew scruffy mixed uniform; add authentic leather jump boots to my Soviet-Afghan war era VDV loadout; build a dedicated Smersh to go with Raisa consisting of 1 side PKM for a drum mag, the other side RPK pouches for long box mags, and the butt-pack modified with an elasticated post box hole in the top as a dump pouch; finish my ghillie suit; get a Partizan/SS Leto Gorka for bad weather...
 
Also need to get my knee healed up so i can go to the gym and get fit again - I plan to be on form by March for the Balshoy Bolshevik Bash 4, but i expect to be fit for long range sniping quite soon...
 
I feel like i'm still missing something...

Yeah James, but that pot is continually getting annealed by being heated and allowed to cool slowly - they put dents in it with a BB gun they say at the top of the piece... probably .177/4.5mm steel BB's, but nonetheless, bugger all compared to buckshot. I dunno for sure that Herosharks would withstand buckshot mind, nor would i risk it, but i would put £10 on it if someone had a shotgun and some spare HS to test!

Didnt think about a tactical side I just did it because it was pretty and I am sad.Dont think it would work for me anyway the fact I generally come running in behind like a bellend gives me away.
I only have one play style, thats Zulu style attack. Run in screaming and hope for the best.

I lost the glasses inserts for my locusts and I contacted tactical kit to see if they would just add it to an import and they did, I got it about a month later. So my recommendation is ask tactical kit if they will add some green ones in their order to revision for you and you'll likely save a bit on the import at the cost of some time.

need to get to some games, the past year has been terrible for me work wise and healthwise

Get a proper loadout

Get my work shifts changed from a Sunday. Smuggle my AK into Uni owned house. (What could go wrong?). Go with the uni society to some games. Get a valid defence again. Become poor and be forced to assume student life of eating pasta while struggling to find places to hide a growing collection of contraband RIFs.

I also have plans to buy an actual P07 bayonet and make a mold in order to create a better rubber copy. Possibly I may do the same with a machete for my jungle green impression. I could then make a mock up of the Australian Machete Bayonet (most scarily large bayonet ever) by casting the handle of a P07 bayonet and adding a blade shaped appropriately.

Silencer arrived, definitely looks much better - and as a complete surprise to me, it makes it noticeably quieter.
 

Oppenmimer, love it

You know why golf is called "golf"?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cos "shit" was already taken...

You know why golf is called "golf"?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cos "shit" was already taken...

You know why golf is called "golf"?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cos "shit" was already taken...

Except that, as we both said, it's a right ball ache to do...
 
You are right though, Prof, 2 BB's have to pass that little rocker thingumajig in the outlet of proper speedloaders for the 1st to be pressed into the mag, which means the 2nd will always drop out - doing it over an open bag/box would seem to be the only way forward. I never even considered mixed colours, Trigger, but yeah, I bet that did look TDB...
 
Thinking about it more though, specifically as a support gunner in near-total darkness, the random mix approach could trick the enemy into thinking they were facing more guns than just you...

Except that, as we both said, it's a right ball ache to do...
 
You are right though, Prof, 2 BB's have to pass that little rocker thingumajig in the outlet of proper speedloaders for the 1st to be pressed into the mag, which means the 2nd will always drop out - doing it over an open bag/box would seem to be the only way forward. I never even considered mixed colours, Trigger, but yeah, I bet that did look TDB...
 
Thinking about it more though, specifically as a support gunner in near-total darkness, the random mix approach could trick the enemy into thinking they were facing more guns than just you...

Except that, as we both said, it's a right ball ache to do...
 
You are right though, Prof, 2 BB's have to pass that little rocker thingumajig in the outlet of proper speedloaders for the 1st to be pressed into the mag, which means the 2nd will always drop out - doing it over an open bag/box would seem to be the only way forward. I never even considered mixed colours, Trigger, but yeah, I bet that did look TDB...
 
Thinking about it more though, specifically as a support gunner in near-total darkness, the random mix approach could trick the enemy into thinking they were facing more guns than just you...

For my M249 I'll likely just be dumping 2000 normal and 500 tracers in there before giving it a good shake. Should work out fine!
 
Problem with using two speedloadsers that I can see is it's incredibly hard to just eject a single BB without the one behind it rolling out onto the floor. Maybe hand load the single tracers and use the speedloader for the rest? I guess with a midcap that's pretty hard though as the tension increases.

I did it mixing one red tracer bb to two green tracer bbs. Used an old rod type speedloader. It was very pretty but a complete ball ache to do.