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depends entirely on which model it is! the G&P Aimpoint T1 for example takes a CR2032, the comp2 takes LR44... and so on.

£4.20 nice touch.

also, she is pretty hot. I've never suffered from yellow fever but I'd still hit it (the lucky b*tch).

just buy a flashmag and spray it yellow?

I just don't understand. I really don't.

I think if you don't have a spouse you just need to not respond to the poll?

the ONLY bad thing is the grip... are you sure about that?!

your only G36 option with recoil is TM and I honestly can't see them updating their G36 range any time soon. As for the 243 S TAR, I honestly don't think anyone makes an airsoft version. VFC may make one under license from Umarex but it's unlikely.

so far it's gone no further than a potential inclusion in a draft bill which has yet to go before scottish parliament, I wouldn't be worried personally.

I agree with all of your points UTJ, but the question was "when will be able to just buy a gun and have it work acceptably out of the box" and the answer to that question is; right now, you can buy a quality gun today, put a battery and a full magazine in it and have no problems whatsoever. Radiused gearboxes etc to handle M150 springs? Why? The limit effective limit is 350-370 fps and that can be achieved with an M100.

Really dark blue or black are pretty generic. In reality as long as they're not sandy, green or maroon I doubt anyone's gonna get too butthurt about it. All of the others are regimental and don't require any particularly demanding courses to get.

yeah, CYMA guns are unashamedly budget, and while they do make a few AK variants that shoot pretty well they don't make 'premium' items with high standards of QC.

100% agree, I have a magnified optic on my gun to look for arm band colours at distance, 75% of the time I use the small red dot that's mounted on top.

For your normal AEG I'm still putting r-hop down as snake oil along with the fallacy that a longer tighter bore barrel is 'more accurate'. I've shot a huge array of guns and I've never had one shoot reliably further than 60 yards (that's a measured 60 yards on a range, not an airsofter's "my gun shoots coke cans at 60 yards") effective range. R-hop, j-hop, q-hop bla bla bla... none of them shooting 350fps or less have gone really any further reliably than that distance. For a sniper rifle yeah it may be a marginal gain but for your average AEG? no. That and sorbo pads, radiused gearboxes... really now? I know I roll this out pretty regularly but my old Marui M4 had been chugging away reliably for MORE THAN A DECADE with zero maintenance before I sold it, that includes a couple of years sat in a box under a bed with all the seals 'drying out' (clearly they didn't) and it shot just as well on the day I chrono'd it for sale as it did the day I bought it back in 2001. This is the same brand that uses 'crappy plastic bushings' and pot metal gears along with a terribly low tech non-radiused gearbox shell and not a bearing in sight! Yes, there are performance gains to be had on this design, but even so they're marginal... bearing spring guides etc yeah, they might extend the life of the gun by another decade? Reliability is entirely down to good materials and quality control, without those things all the best bearings and sorbothane are useless from the factory. Performance is also entirely down to good materials, design and quality control... an r-hop by all accounts takes a vast amount of fettling to be effective and it'll never work from the factory. Airsofters have this massive fixation with 'upgrades' and chasing the next big performance gain but if you've got a half decent gun to begin with you're chasing smoke, if you've bought a JG M4 with 5 previous owners you don't need upgrades, you need your head checking.

We're at that point now, G&G, tokyo marui, real sword etc. none of those guns NEED upgrading in any way to be good.

how much force do you think these things have to stand up to?! Zinc will be more than tough enough to go back and forwards under relatively low gas pressures, especially as it'll be bouncing off a buffer at the back.

where are you getting this information from? mid caps require next to zero maintenance, I've never stripped and cleaned a mid cap magazine, ever. all of mine still feed flawlessly.

yeah, that'll do it!

For me, a shedload of glowsticks and some blue force gear tenspeed pouches. Good shout mack, you won't be disappointed! remove the quick change battery rubbish immediately though, wire it to deans and use 7.4v LiPo, cheaper and MUCH better trigger response.

no chance, marui are kings of proprietary. Thankfully there's loads of companies that make upgrades/replacement parts specifically for marui guns!

I see your point and respect your opinion, I also largely agree (especially on the lowest common denominator part, as a dirty matelot I form part of that category). I just get annoyed at the instant 'TRIGGER DISCIPLINE!!!' Whenever anyone posts a photo of anyone with a finger inside a trigger guard. There are situations where that applies, and situations where it doesn't. In your front room with a presumably unloaded airsoft gun, wearing eye pro taking a photo for a forum I'd say isn't the time for trigger discipline to be paramount or even really a factor. Nothing bad can/could happen in that situation. I dunno, maybe I'm being a prick (it happens a fair amount), but trigger awareness seems to be something a lot of airsofters grab onto with both hands and don't let it go. Those same people I expect in game have little to no muzzle awareness (again, not a hard and fast requirement with an airsoft gun, no one's gonna die!).

I'll second what TacMaster has said there, the mini MAV is a fantastic bit of kit.

cropzy, seriously for the love of christ sort out your signature! I'm viewing the forums in 1920x1080 and it takes up more than half the screen!

I read that as he dremelled the old frames, rather than the lenses.

If your local isn't UKARA registered then you'll need to start playing at one that is. You don't become a member of UKARA, you become a member of a site and they record your membership details on the UKARA database. The recommended requirement is 3 games in not less than 2 months and not more than 12 months, doesn't say what age you need to be when you play those games, if the site has any sense they'll allow you to play your 3 games there whenever and just stamp your form once you're 18. The three games do need to all be at the same site though, I highly doubt that Site A will accept 3 games from Site B. As Mack said, speak to them, explain the situation and ask what they'll be willing to do for you.