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pretty much EVERYTHING gets made in coyote... heck, if you wanted to you could buy a Crye CPC in coyote!

definitely got potential for some punch in CQB!

generally from my own mistakes, I'd rather it was from the mistakes of others.

abbey 144a is not green gas no, however, you should still be getting more than 200fps with it, even when it's freezing cold! my advice is to take it down to the store and have them chrono it there, will be irrefutable evidence that you're not just doing it wrong.

blue force gear 6 pack is pretty similar, but again quite expensive: http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/blue-force-gear-ten-speed-bandolier-six-pack-tsp-m4-6-12344-p.asp

I quite like the AI one, but I haven't exactly put it through hard use.

as a follow up to this, I'm now in contact with Andy regarding getting a set of inserts (didn't end up sending an email in January!). How do you find the prescription lenses for fogging up Del monty? I'm a little worried that my sweaty face will cause the lenses to fog up while the eyeshield itself remains clear!

with the drawdown in afghanistan I expect short notice bumping of events will be reduced significantly in future.

For £30 you could get on a train to one of the other sites in the south east and hire there! Blue streak are supposedly very good.

In order for a mosfet to be able to completely eliminate semi lock ups in a V2 gearbox it needs to monitor the position of the sector gear, BTC Spectre or Chimera drop in units will do it but they're nearly the cost of a combat machine! Personally I'd upgrade the wiring, get a cheaper mosfet like a gate pico or nano ab, put a high torque motor in there and use 11.1v batteries, should solve your semi auto lock up problem :-)

Also, if you really must improve the FPS of a TM recoil chuck a good 6.03 tightbore and a bearing spring guide in and it'll bump you to 330 ish on average.

You're making a lot of assumptions, FPS as you've stated isn't everything and the miracle barrel is just a tightbore with a little platform for the BB to sit on. No test so far has proved that they're actually any better than a standard barrel.

£30 for a rental gun?! They'd best be good guns then, that's outrageous!

just to add to that though, there's no reason why you NEED to upgrade any of those things, in my experience it's very difficult to upgrade the hop-up on a marui gun... not because it's a hard part to replace, but because it's a hard part to improve upon. Stock barrel likewise is very very good and in order to get a true 'upgrade' you're looking at a prometheus barrel... v expensive! The stock gears are more than strong enough to pull back the stock spring for ever without failure, my old marui M4 ran for 10 years with zero maintenance and is probably still going fine now. If you want to upgrade the spring to squeeze more FPS out of one, then you might as well change the gears while you've got the gearbox open but otherwise just leave it!

yeah, if you're getting decent performance now (sounds like you are!) why spend money to potentially bugger it up? If it aint broke... don't fix it!

some would argue that having to attend 3 games in not less than 2 months, not more than 12 months all at the same UKARA registered site counts as jumping through at least one hoop. I know I do, it's not a difficult thing to do but it IS a ball ache.

if it's kicking out 160fps on abbey 144a there's something wrong with it, should be 240-260.

armouring that against BBs would be a piece of piss I agree, even the armature that holds the camera up could be done relatively easily with a thick fabric skirt. bit of lexan to cover the lens and it'd be all but BB proof.

TM Recoil guns are metal where the real gun is metal... obviously though they're not made of steel like the real thing. The recoil also is NOT going to put your aim off, it's nowhere near as powerful as even .22, more of a recoil effect than actual recoil. That said, it is still extremely satisfying!

or, if you don't want to spend an extra £60 on a silencer and a fore grip, the standard 416D is largely the same gun but £485 instead of £545 http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/marui-recoil-416d-airsoft-gun-ebb-aeg

there's a few differences, the TM will shoot further and more accurately without modification, when your magazine is empty it'll stop firing and the recoil effect will become something you can't do without! The 416 DEVGRU is the most expensive recoil gun available, is it £165 better than a VFC? That depends entirely on how much £165 is to you, but it's undoubtedly a better gun. As dex has said, the recoil shock specific magazines are a little more expensive ~£18 each but you can if you want buy a small plastic adapter that'll allow you to use normal AEG mags, albeit with the loss of the bolt stop when the magazine is empty. Oh, and don't get it from airsoft world, even though they're claiming that they've knocked the price down it's still a rip! http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/marui-416-devgru-aeg-airsoft-recoil-rifle-ebb £20 cheaper and if you give them a ring they'll do the battery conversion for you.

paintball gun, covered by the air weapons section of the firearms act. as long as you're over 18 and it's less than 12ft/lb they're perfectly legal... yet another way that the VCRA is complete bullshit.

TM Recoil Shock is absolutely worth it, hands down the best out of the box AEG money can buy. http://www.blackdragonairsoft.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=20&product_id=54 That's the CQBR, would be a matter of seconds to chuck a silencer on the end of it. The only mod I'd recommend having done is to remove the quick change battery system and have it direct wired, any good retailer will be able to do this for a very small cost. Maintenance wise it's just a case of keeping the barrel clean, you'll likely never need to open the gearbox.

to add to that, no one NEEDS a MOSFET, heavy gauge wiring, or any of that other shit. get a decent battery; personally I'd recommend a 7.4v LiPo with a decent discharge rate (20C+ for a small <1500mAh, 15C+ for a bigger one) and re wire your tamiya connection to deans. Yes you'll get some arcing on your trigger contacts and yes in a couple of years they might fail... but in my experience of people using MOSFETs they're far more likely to fail than the trigger contacts! Don't worry about a stock G&P piston either, they're a premium brand for a reason and the gun will be GOOD out of the box.

a pair of mechanix originals and a WE LiPo to see if they're any good!