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Metal MP7?! The airsoft full metal disease even extends to guns that are made of plastic in the real version!

It's an insert for your magazine to allow you to dry fire the gun without the slide locking back. Pull the spring down, put that in the magazine and the follower won't be able to go all the way up and actuate the slide catch.

I personally think that 2-tone is entirely a money making scheme for retailers and damages the sport as a whole in the long run. The whole reason for the specific defence against the VCRA given to skirmishing was for realism. If someone in Parliament wants to score some easy 'hard on gun crime' points all they need to do is repeal that defence. We as airsofters realistically at that point aren't going to have a leg to stand on as every weekend thousands of people go out and play with 2-tones.

Personally I'd just leave it on there, you won't notice it if you're focussing on your target instead of the dot :-)

hicapas are pretty legendary, SO MANY AFTERMARKET PARTS!!!!

yes/no, depends on the MOSFET, without some way of monitoring cycle completion (like a spectre, chimera or ASCU) I'd leave the ARL in to stop the gearbox potentially getting braked with the spring all the way back!

yeah, changing it back is as simple as putting a new selector plate in. I'd recommend a MOSFET regardless though, without a way to release the cutoff lever if you get a V2-lockup from firing on semi too rapidly you'll need to take the grip off to release the gearbox tension!

yeah, there's no way to accurately say what thread it is from a phone photo. best bet is to get the rail you want to put on it and see if it fits, if it doesn't either sell it on or send it back.

Going in the same vein though you could just reprogram the hard wired mosfet to go back to safe-semi-auto, all it normally takes is a couple of trigger pulls. As for a full auto AEG over 350FPS being illegal, WTF are you smoking? I want some.

failing that, a burst wizard style MOSFET with both semi and auto set to single shot should do the job. Though some sites apparently insist upon the gun being mechanically locked to semi, never experienced it myself though, how would they check?!

if you don't know the answer, why bother posting? Most permanent way to do it is to remove the part of the selector plate that moves the cut-off lever out of the way; The bit just to the left of the top arrow is what you need to remove, probably about 5-6mm. When the gun is set to auto, the selector plate moves backwards along the gearbox and pushes that little lever which disengages the cutoff lever, with no cutoff lever the trigger doesn't get disengaged after each shot and you get full auto.

Yeah it was me, made it to shut someone up on Facebook. Didn't work.

You won't get laughed at. A decent GBB pistol will have the same range and accuracy as a halfway decent AEG. Barrel length isn't a real factor in accuracy. The problems you'll come up against are; ammo capacity - you'll be looking at carrying a LOT of magazines to be able to compete with even mid-cap (mid capacity magazines) AEG users. Cold weather - as the weather takes a nosedive, so will the performance of your pistols, sad as it is, even the best GBB will struggle a little bit in the British winter. Accuracy at distance - while the pistol itself will shoot just as accurately as a rifle can, you probably can't. Aiming with a pistol is much harder at long distance than with a rifle, hand shake becomes amplified, the distance between sights is shorter and because they're open iton sights (normally) getting a good sight picture at distance isn't quick. Those problems are largely confined to woodland though, for CQB as long as you've got a handful of magazines an your pistol is reliable then you're laughing. You'll be able to move faster, aim faster and get tighter in on corners than someone using a long gun.

boogie regulators are guaranteed 100% to fog unless you're parachuting or riding a quad bike at speed. avoid.

to be completely honest here, why are you really considering throwing money and time at a £50 springer? you can't polish a turd and really they're about as good as they're gonna get already.

Shooting targets / tin cans is pretty much all it's good for (and what they're sold for too!). If you want to shoot people, you'll need to get a 6mm (or 8mm if you're loaded and a bit simple) airsoft gun, gas blowback guns from Tokyo Marui and WE are your best bet. Tokyo Marui are (arguably) better performers but they're plastic, while WE are often made of metal but don't perform quite as well. SRC/HFC/etc should be avoided really for pistols, 99.99% of the time they're rubbish.

it's already lubed. what do you want to do with the 'upgrade', what is it that you aim to achieve? more range, faster trigger response, more consistent shooting? Just chucking parts at a perfectly functioning gun is an easy way to f*ck it up.

Nope, even if you could find plastic .177 BBs you'd never pass chrono and you WOULD end up hurting someone if you did somehow manage to sneak it past the chrono.

First ever airsoft gun was a TM M8000 spring pistol, £35 from antics in plymouth. No VCRA or any shit back then so I went in and bought it with cash at the ripe old age of 15! The amount of times I shot my mates in public places with that thing... once had a running gun battle with 2 friends on the platform of Saltash train station, no eye protection at all it's a wonder none of us got hurt or arrested!

standard AEG springs won't fit, there's not enough room in one of those to put 3 AEG springs!

Tamiya do some really solid stuff, their paints are excellent too!

fuck no. Those things are absolutely lethal, mate of mine fired one clean through 8 beer cans.

Semapo are really good at customs declarations too, I expect your label will read $12!

I don't wear anything different for a normal skirmish day, if I'm out overnight or on stag for a milsim I'll wrap up warm, but just running round in the woods I wear the same thing all year round