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altering the feed mechanism would be really straightforward, just chop the hop unit cleanly in half and rotate it 90 degrees before sticking it back together... altering the position of the magwell, that'd take a bit more work to get it right.

what? no. AEGs don't have a bolt.

fire support will do it, so will black dragon airsoft. cheapest deal will be echigoya-guns.com though

radios are as useful indoors as they are outdoors, the range of a radio will be attenuated by objects in the way (like walls) but so long as none of those walls are filled with lead you should be fine in a normal sized building. No one's gonna be able to use PMR446 to communicate through 15 floors or a hundred metres of walls but when will you need to?

true, but how often do you need to contact someone more than 200-300 metres away when playing airsoft? Not very often at all!

if you're only ever going to use PMR446 then the Motorola is the way to go, chances are you'd never *need* the ability to use other frequencies anyway... if you do ever end up needing a programmable radio in the future buy one when it happens.

£300 for a flyye vest?! you could get an LBT one for that. Utter ripoff; http://www.shootercbgear.com/product_info.php?products_id=5021 same item, after conversion to GBP it comes in at £161, add on probably $30-40 (£25 max?) on shipping and you've saved yourself over a hundred quid.

at 30 metres if your grouping with an SA80 is sigificantly larger than 30-35mm you're doing it wrong.

ok, it seems you've been arguing something that was settled on the previous page... TM pistols are perfectly usable with propane. oh, and since you're such a physics whizz, but clearly not so hot on reading comprehension, you should also have picked up on me using the boiling rate of propane as a constant; i.e. work to the assumption that propane would be used in both guns, at which point the plastic slide remains more efficient because it weighs less!

yeah, piston for me is a mechanical fuse... the piston will strip long before I damage my expensive gears or motor.

PRR is perfectly legal, they use the same band as WiFi... the down side of course is that EVERYONE needs to be using a PRR because they can't talk to PMR446 handsets in any way.

what would your reason for installing a longer barrel be? I'll poo-poo the most common justification right now: a longer barrel in an airsoft gun does not equate to better range or more accuracy.

I honestly don't think you understand how a gas blowback pistol works.

The multicam colouring on emerson stuff is 'off', it's much too green and boil washing them a bunch of times doesn't help! I recommend Semapo Gear if you're after some good quality crye knockoffs!

this is unintelligible gibberish, I'd be extremely surprised to hear you were sober when you vomited this stream of just-about-consciousness onto your keyboard. It's simple physics: Propane boils from liquid (in magazine) to gas (valve open) at a fixed rate The valve on the magazine DOES NOT CLOSE until the slide has cycled back far enough to reset the valve knocker A 50gram metal slide requires twice as much energy to move as a 25gram plastic one, it also accelerates slower. The energy input, from the propane boiling is a constant rate of X joules per gram that boils off, which we can equate to X seconds of the valve being open since the boil rate is (functionally at least) constant. Because the metal slide needs more energy to cycle it requires more gas to boil in order to do this... so gas usage with a heavier slide increases. Not only that, generally with a heavier slide you'll also need a heavier recoil spring to keep the gun cycling at an acceptable rate which means EVEN MORE energy is required to push the slide back to the point where the valve knocker is reset. Lighter (plastic!) slides are MORE EFFICIENT and use less gas per shot than metal ones.

dPMR and dTDMA are perfectly usable standards but 99% of other airsofters will have standard PMR446 radios, no point buying a flash 16 channel dPMR radio if you can't use half the channels because no one else has got them! I personally really rate the Baofeng UV5R, it's a bit of a pain to learn the features initially, but once you've got your head round programming it you've got a lot more flexibility than you would with a standard 8channel PMR446 radio. For example, at bigger games (like ground zero etc) the standard 8 channels get completely swamped by thousands of people trying to use them all at once, a license to allow you to use a different frequency range is cheap and will allow you and your team to use your own frequencies that will not only be quiet, they'll also be completely private.

the plastic slide is what makes all the difference, weight is a huge issue; the boiling off of your gas is what provides the energy to propel the BB and cycle the slide, the heavier the slide the more energy this takes and therefore the more gas needs to boil off to cycle it. Not only that, a heavy slide (metal) will cycle slower because gas boils off at a flat rate. THAT is why marui pistols with plastic slides perform better than other brands with metal slides... physics.

Close but not quite, even if you've got CTCSS enabled on a channel (say Channel 2 CTCSS code 26), anyone not using CTCSS will be able to hear it regardless. There's no scrambler or encryption going on, it just puts a tone on the transmission which enables the transmission to be ignored by radios not using that specific CTCSS code. Likewise, people often think that putting yourself on Channel 2 and CTCSS code 23 (as an arbitrary example) and someone else on Channel 2 CTCSS code 22 will deconflict their transmissions, but both of those radios are transmitting on the same frequency (446.01875MHz) and will block out each other's transmissions if you transmit at the same time. ​There are only 8 PMR446 channels, regardless of the number stated, there are 8 channels: 1 446.00625 2 446.01875 3 446.03125 4 446.04375 5 446.05625 6 446.06875 7 446.08125 8 446.09375

yeah, this seems like you've realised you can't polish a turd but you've decided you're going to roll it in glitter anyway.

slide is plastic though, which is what really matters!

That's just how a glock works, when the slide is fully forwards (i.e. in a firing state) there'll be very minimal wobble. There's no fix for this as it's not broken.

The standard TM Hicapa is plastic, all of their pistols are. I've run all my TM guns on propane, even in the height of summer (high 20's) and have never had a slide explode on me. That said, I have seen pictures of TM guns with cracked slides... but who knows what those guns were subjected to before they cracked? Could have been dropped a few times before their careless owners filled them up with propane and left the mags in direct sunlight to get really good and hot for an hour! If you want the BEST GBB pistol money can buy, pick the style you want and get a TM. It'll shoot further, more accurately, more reliably and in more varied weather conditions than any other brand you can buy. That said, it'll be plastic, but that's WHY it does all of the above. If you want a shiny wall hanger or something that'll look cool in a holster get whatever you want.

All PMR446 radios come with 8 channels, some newer digital radios will have 16, but you'll only be able to realistically use 8 because that's what everyone else has. Baofeng radios programmed with PMR446 frequencies on low power are perfectly legal to use without a license. VOX is for arseholes and ameteurs, your voice will set it off when you talk to your mate next to you, your gun will set it off, heavy breathing will set it off, branches scraping on gear will set it off... You get the picture. If you want to transmit, push a button. Military replica stuff is 99% shit, either shell out for the real deal or buy commercial spec stuff. As I said in the other thread a decent quality fist mic will cost you very little and stand up to a shitload more punishment than anything z-tactical churn out.

Nope, get a newer model WE or a TM. Outside of that, with very few exceptions, you'll be wasting your cash.

while all-in one solutions like that are cheaper, they're also really fragile (due to being really cheap!) and also quite annoying... wearing that hard plastic thing over your ear all day will start out fine, progress to uncomfortable and then be downright painful. The speaker mic on the other hand just clips on to your kit, if the earpiece becomes uncomfortable, just take it off and turn the volume down