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I'll let it play out first and then let you all know, but if you're really interested then it's the only partially built TM M870 with wooden kit on Zero In that was sold recently

Turns out the partially-complete M870 I bought with a wooden stock for £195 was actually some bodge-job painted OEM stock, and the tank I bought (sold to me as a 'Tonic re-enforced' one) was also just a TM stock tank. Seller says this is my fault as it's my responsibility to know what the item is, and that because it was sold to him as being 'wood' that this is now my problem. People have no goddamn honour these days.

You can use an actual tank (plenty do), though the Mancraft regs don't appear to be the best in the world. Not that it really matters when the ROF is so low that there's plenty of time for the pressure to stabilise.

Hey John. Welcome to the site. The main reason for the 'don't go for a sniper rifle' is threefold: Firstly, (and surprisingly more than you'd expect) a lot of people get the impression that snipers are taking people out from hundreds of metres away in airsoft - that's just not the case. Minimum engagement distances on most sites for sniper rifles firing around the 400-500fps mark is 15m, but rarely will you see someone being hit over 50m. Basically most 'kills' happy between 15 and 40 metres, and this is well within the scope of a lot of mid-range AEGs. For this reason, the gun alone is rarely competitive. This brings me onto point two. Secondly, it's a different play style that not a great deal of players are actually suited to. You need to be very patient and you need to show up with the knowledge that you might well just be properly outgunned and outmanouvred and may walk away from that day with only a handful of kills. Many new players get turned off after their first or second game using just a sniper rifle and can't justify forking out more money for a different gun and lose interest. Thirdly is the money. You can't really show up with an out-of-the-box sniper rifle and expect it to out-compete everything else. You can turn up with an out-of-the-box AEG and be on par with some of the very expensive stuff most of the time. Expect to spend upwards of £450 on a sniper rifle (if you include the stock gun) on upgrades before it can consistently be hitting those further ranges, have a decent trigger break and a clear scope. Conversely, there are some good entry-level AEGs that you can get for £150 with everything that you need to get started. That said, if you want to snipe then go for it. There are plenty of videos out there that may give you a feel for what you might be in for (just remember they tend to edit most of the boring waiting around out). I don't think your situation means you can't go the usual route. I joke about a lot of people just standing by trees and popping off shots but that's genuinely what a good portion of players do throughout the day when they're tired of running or just not really wanting to get too muddy - I get it. I feel you'd be fine with an AEG and not moving fast a whole lot - most woodland games a medium sized sites tend to have one or two large firefights and not much else, so excessive moment to push up or fall back generally isn't required. There are quite a few older players who simply use decent knowledge of the site and good cover to score their kills so there's no reason you couldn't do that as well over time.

3D print or CNC some cheap plastic inversion of the two halves of the body then vacuum-form it - wouldn't cost too much and could be done with acrylic quite readily.

Wolf Armouries seems to suffer from what a lot of small businesses do - relative website syndrome. I.e. get your son or uncle to build your website for you and do an incredibly poor job of it.

Thank goodness they camouflaged arbitrary areas of that scooter or it'd be seen from miles away.

Er, we just established that it doesn't. It weighs 5.8kg (or up to 8kg if you have mine loaded). Real one weighs 9.2kg loaded or 7kg unloaded. I see your point though, especially when it comes to the M4 stuff. My WOC weighs a ton (must be getting on for 5-6kg with a scope) despite not being a particularly cheap alloy, I can't imagine a real one weighs that much.

I'm not quite sure how that's relevant, but are you sure? Wikpedia says under 7kg for the para stock. Around 9.2kg loaded.

Well they're around 5.8kg unmodified - then I've got the longer barrel Mk1 variant with the metal stock, rails, foregrip, PEQ, a 2.5k magazine (with .30s, so 750g by itself) and a Daytona Gun 'big-ass lump of metal' kit in there. Manageable as it's not that suited to run and gun anyway, heh.

My M249 is close to 8kg with a full magazine.

Er, didn't we both just say we knew exactly who he was? Heh. HSA = Hunter Seeker Armouries - his Google page where the R-Hop and his 3D printed stuff resides. You might find that stuff he's talking about on there. I've ordered from there a couple of times and recognised his voice and channel name as I obviously watched the R-Hop install video a year or so back

Yeh, it was a bit long winded. In summary for everyone (from what was said in the videos): clean with isopropyl alcohol apply thin layer of silicone to make surface 'more slippery' before cleaning off don't get silicone anywhere near your hop up rubber as it will warp it or - at the very least - provide less traction on the BB as it passes over it (resulting in less spin) It's definitely the HSA chap talking, so I guess he's worth his salt.

Extra ooomph you say? HK51B - beefed-up MP5-ish body belt-fed 7.62.

Do some security team deployments and get them to hit the enemy supply 'sheds' - you can knock down the amount of torches and nightvision they're given.

I found this video pretty interesting. If you don't know, this is the same guy that 'invented' the mainstream R-Hop patch. Now I'd always taken it that alcohol cleaned better because of its solvent properties (video seems to confirm this), but to see this it looks like I'll be doing a final run of the inside of my barrels with silicone again as it seems to make them stay cleaner longer. That said though, it does look like when he wipes the areas at the end that they clean at the same rate, so maybe the difference is negligible if you've got a stream of BBs and air blasting out the inside anyway. Follow up:

45 days - Is David Walliams going to swim there and pick them up for you?

More cost effective than paying someone £2.50 to do it with a laser cutter for 2 of them? Also, here they are for holographic sights on AliExpress for £2.99: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/EX013-Tactical-Hunting-Airsoft-Scope-Red-Green-Dot-Sight-Lens-Protective-Holosight-Cover-For-551-552/32356573067.html?spm=2114.031010208.3.12.QTyrFT&ws_ab_test=201407_5,201444_6,201409_2

I'd wager he's already got one given the date of this thread and that he's listed an MP5 in his profile field.

You're quite right - I should have clarified. The only reason I think 'sniper rifles are a bad idea if you're starting' is because for a lot of people they just aren't a lot of fun. If you're a new player and you drop that starting budget on a sniper rifle and don't enjoy it then you've got nothing fall back on.

It'll never be as fleeced as the person that buys it.

Another plug for that guy on eBay that will cut acrylic in the right diameter for your scope, Jedi: http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/bobbyboy0177 - about £4 for 5 of them posted. 3mm is best as it'll take as many hits as you like.

Hey, it's worth it if only 1 in 5 listen and most people are decent enough to read all of the posts even if they don't understand them. It's the threads where a specific question is asked then the OP doesn't choose to read the answers that gets me - why bother asking? I can't really blame them a lot of the time though. This forum - like many others - has a habit of not answering the question a lot of the time and offering unsolicited, purely subjective advice. Hey ho.

It's becoming more apparent on this forum, heh.

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