jcheeseright

doesn't really bear that much resemblance to the AAC honey badger, admittedly they've improved upon the design (in my opinion at least) by making the top rail modular, but if you're gonna call it a honey badger... at least get it right!

the nylon will hold up, but will the stitching, will the cheaply made clips and triglides? more importantly, for the sake of a few quid is it worth the risk?

would you trust a 5kg gun that cost over £300 to a bit of chinese nylon and monkey metal that cost £10? I certainly wouldn't. especially not when you can get a decent one point made by a reputable manufacturer for less than £20: http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/blackhawk-storm-sling-qd-version-70gs15bk-1802-p.asp Or a 2-point for £10.95: http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/blackhawk-universal-tactical-sling-70ut00bk-533-p.asp Both of those slings will hold your bodyweight if you need them to, the china sling... maybe not.

I've run all of my TM guns on propane, no issues.

buys £300+ gun, admits that it's really heavy... spends £10 on a sling.

I'm a big fan of the 2-point sling myself, used to use a 1-point but found that the moment you let go of the gun it just does whatever it wants!

it's a non blow back gun, the strength of the gas is irrelevant. Some (read not many) TM GBB pistols with weak slide designs and massive expansion chambers (5-7 springs to mind) will break on green gas, most will not.

yeah.

nope, CYMA are TM clones, it'll be off-spec for a G&P.

it relates to the shape of the nub that pushes against your hop bucking, a flat one applies even pressure across the whole hop-window in the barrel allowing for a more consistent contact patch with the BB; Flat hop nub looks like this: Normal stock one looks like this ignore the bucking, the little round bit is what we're interested in): with the standard nub you only get a sideways 'push' down on the bucking, with a flat nub the whole hop-window is filled so it pushes the bucking down over a much bigger area. The benefits are consistency from shot to shot (bigger contact patch, small variations have less of an effect) and slightly higher FPS because you don't need to apply so much downward push to achieve the same amount of backspin.

you don't have to use the proprietary mags with a TM, you can buy an adapter for about a tenner that'll let you use standard AEG magazines. Though you do lose the bolt stop feature if you do that.

no.

The quality of the hop-unit is as important as the bucking imo, a cheap unit will have flex in the parts, or inconsistencies in the finish which will alter air seal at best and inconsistently apply hop-up at worst. I've often said that there's no such thing as an accurate airsoft gun, just a consistent one. The key to finding that consistency is removing all of the variables; hop-arm flex applying inconsistent pressure on the rubber, hop rotation (along with the barrel) caused by an off-spec hop unit not fitting snugly in the outer barrel, a loose adjustment dial moving around with the vibration of the gearbox, off-spec chamber leaking air because the bucking doesn't fill it properly, or worse being too tight and deforming the bucking resulting in mis feeds and jams... I could go on! Short version, decent hop-up unit is key to performance. One of the many reasons Marui am bestest... they make the best hop-up units going.

I've had no problems shooting GBB guns in the winter, you just need to use the right gas and manage your expectations. Can you do a full auto mag dump in 5C weather? Of course not, but when you've only got 2-300 shots anyway why would you want to fire 40 of them in one go?!

Anything less than 400fps is definitely soft bucking territory. I recently broke the cardinal rule and replaced the bucking and nub on my TM M4, with a bit of fettling (the flat nub I used needed trimming to fit the hop-window properly) the improvement in shot to shot consistency was immediate and VERY noticeable. I highly recommend the firefly soft bucking/flat nub combo. Doesn't give you any much more range, but does improve consistency at the very end of the BB's flight.

I highly doubt it'll spread, if anything I expect more sites will start to allow them now that there are properly powered CO2 guns hitting the market .

Yeah I've been to a couple of sites with a blanket ban on CO2, doesn't matter if the chrono says it's in limits CO2 = not allowed.

why not just buy the standard HK416 if you're going to change the stock anyway? save yourself £80!

Like Mack I prefer a plastic piston, if your AOE is squared away and you're not running a stupid 30+ RPS idiot cannon a plastic piston will last a long time anyway. When/if something does go wrong the plastic piston acts as a mechanical fuse in that the gears will strip it long before any damage happens to the gears/bushings/motor/gearbox shell. With a metal toothed piston whichever part is weakest will break first; might just be the £5 pinion gear on your motor, might be the gearbox shell, you just don't know!

7.4v LiPo, 20C or above.

wearing flat caps, stroking whippets and thinking about cleaning out your pigeon sheds.

while not cheap, any receiver on this page will fit: http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/accessories/metal-body/aeg-metal-body/index.html?manufacturer=319 you'll have to buy the upper too though, I don't think you'll get a new G&P lower on it's own.

Retailers will do UKARA checks for anyone, I phone up fire support to check the number of everyone I sell to, using the self check is hit and miss at best.

The self check is rubbish, the retailer accessed database isn't. You probably ARE on the database, just CALL A RETAILER and ask them to look you up.

Did you spend the night shooting at each other? We're there pyrotechnics and the possibility for a passer by to lose an eye if they'd strayed into your party by accident? That's what PLI is for, not just because it's a gathering of people. You can bet your ass that if you were to lose your eye on site the PLI wouldn't pay you a penny unless the site could be found to have been at fault. A passer by who by bad luck got caught by a BB that had made it through the site's safety netting, they'd get a big payout.