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Aiming properly with that thing is impossible,unless you are going to use it as a sniper's backup it's fairly useless as a primary. Get one of the Gr16 raiders,much better. Internals wise- It's a wombat machine. Not particularly amazing but it gets the shop done and will not grenade itself from long term usage out of the box. I'd try not to get a blowback version-Although they sound nice, the pneumatic system creates an air leak which produces inconstancy.

Problem with the G&G pneumatic system is that it gives fuck all recoil and creates a massive air leak. I've yet to see a consistant firing Pneumatic blowback G&G gun. I believe G&G are trying to work on a way to get the pneumatic system to also cycle the nozzle along with a faux bolt to eliminate the tappet plate. Was on a promo for the MARS guns.

Most metals used are monkey metals like impure Zamak-4 alloys, or whatever cheap zinc based shit manufacturers can get their hands on. AFIAk a few companies like G&P and VFC use soft aluminium based stuff which is still monkey metal but a fair bit stronker than most of the zinc stuff. Most plastics used are ABS and Glass-fiber reinforced Nylon. ABS is more brittle and prone to cracking but Nylon is stronger by a fair margin. G&G Wombat machines use Nylon construction IIRC,most G36s barring older JGs and TMs are fully Nylon. Nylon is a bit more ductile than ABS and has an overall higher strength. SRC G36s have very good feeling Nylon bodies,I fell in love with the one I worked on. The next best thing of course is a steel gun. You can;t beat steel,even if most airsofts use China slave worker mined Pig Iron it's tough stuff. Dboys RK08 is a good budget option. LCT and VFC AKs are very strong however both have their downfalls,LCTs like to come apart gradually due to two grubs holding the outer barrel and VFC have an aluminium outer barrel which means it can;t be used as a step ladder. RealSword is a demilled Norinco Type 56 that conforms to some sort of manufacturing standard so It's very tough. ICS & GG L85s are steel too and tough bricks of guns. Heavy however but being bullpups they feel very point able when shouldered.

Systema PTWs are expensive for two main reasons in my opinion- Brand name & production cost. Brand name- Because Systema. The yank speshul farces use it for training so that adds to the value. Systema used to dominate the aftermarket upgrade market (But no longer because it's overpriced and the price/quality factor is sh*t for most systema stuff) So their name is associated with quality (That has changed recently) Production cost- The PTWs use planetary gearboxes. These are very complicated gearbox systems. Expensive so produce as they require good material quality and very good production quality. You can't just roughly sinter them like most AEG manufacturers do,they have to be molded then machined to specification. The PTW bodies are also forged and then machined. Forging and machining is very expensive in airsoft,due to the lower production volume and demand. Since Systemas are also real steel dimension ed they have to conform to some sort of standard however low it may be. And finally,Systemas are made in Nippon,where they actually pay their workers. If you are prepared to upgrade you can turn any gun into a PTW killer. It's the real feel and dimensions you can't really get with an AEG that you can with a PTW.

The GHK drop in kit is a Gas in mag GBB system so it's not like Daytona gun. It's pretty crap too which is a shame since most of GHK's stuff is really well made. I believe Real Sword are experimenting with this kind of system. They've been teasing it for some time and are keeping hush hush on details. I'd imagine it would be a very difficult system to implement reliably. HPA created by a compressor in a gun- That could work but again,hard to implement into various gun models. If you had an M82 replica I think It gives enough space to experiment.

BPA themselves are hosting a 27hr game called OP foxhound in June. It's a Milsim but only in structure. Playstyle wise most of the guys & gals I've played with don't take it super seriously but like to keep the milsim atmosphere but otherwise pretty friendly. That said it isn't very skirmish like. Lots of hiking but they have jeeps about and if you are lucky you might land on the same squad as the lads who bring around a Humvee from time to time. Rionegro series is not run by the BPA staff but hosted on the land. It;s in august. One of the if not the biggest sim in Ireland. Have not yet attended one as I'm usually in Ukraine by that time and I'm not old enough. However according to guys on the BPA staff team I've spoken to the turnout is usually massive,people are very accepting and generally friendly around it and it's loads of fun. Again,Milsim so ammo caps,lots of hiking and such. If you have facebook you can check out their page. Tickets for OP foxhound go live on the 28th I think,you can buy on their website. Games are usually camo vs black/civilian but foxhound looks to put a spin on things a bit. They usually use headgear to tell teams apart so you can wear whatever camo really.

Dboys RK-08. Good choice. One of the few guns Dboys makes that are 99% steel. The only pot metal part I remember is the stock latch so be careful with it or be prepared to buy an overpriced LCT replacement Class bodies however,the steel used is ver ygood quality. Probably the best gun Dboys make (External wise) In my opinion.

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Don;t you know gender is a social construct OP? You're just a tool of the misogynist fat shaming patriarchy I swear you're triggering my PTSD. How dare you. I bet you're a cis gendered white privileged male sitting writing about hating non binary people of color. I cannot begin to say how offensive this thread is. It;s simple existence is a call for war against the cis patriarchy. edgy tumblr pisstake huehuehuehue

No matter how many buzzwords your 'aluminium' alloy gun has it's still good ole powder cast Zamak 4 I'd rather decent ABS or Nylon/Glassfiber guns any day.My old Gundam model kits felt stronger than most of the metals used in airsoft gats tbh. Some plastic guns,like most airsoft G36s,even TM based ABS ones are invincible(Probably since the G36 was designed to be made out of plastic but whatever) I've dropped my ABS VSR stock loads of times,even used it as a rung/handle to crawl out of a river- If it can survive being stepped on and holding my 65kg bony arse then it's grand in my book. I would have more confidence in it than even a Aluminium CNC PDi stock.

Performance depends on how well you build it really. You can have a full 2000$+ VSR full PDi parts and still have it shoot like shit.

SHS steel sear set- about 15 quid from ehobby Dangerwerx type B lever- 20 quid from ASPUK Your piston will get eaten by the sears. So I'd buff up the budget to 60 quid so you can afford an Action army piston from ehobby or somesuch for about 20 quid and still have a tenner left over for supplies for DIY mods. DIY mods- Seal hop up buckings with dental floss Seal cylinder with PTFE Grease the gun properly with some nice silicone grease. The earwax stuff JG uses is awful. Thoroughly wash the hop up buckings in fairy liquid do the google dance for more class DIY mods. Plenty can be done on the cheap.

16. Loads of craic to get up to sure.

900 RPM is 15 RPS. 400FPS..That's an M120 spring with a good air seal. That's completely possible. Cyma MP5s come with 120 or 130 springs as standard I believe and can fire 400 FPS if the air seal is good and you win the ACM lottery. 15 RPS is nothing,average guns fire 20RPS nowadays. Throw in some 13:1 or 12:1 gears,an SHS high torque and on a 9.9v Life you can get up to 30 RPS easily. Stock Marui High cycles come firing 30 RPS on an 8.4v nimh (but only firing at 250 or so FPS)

Being realistic with Irish airsoft prices I'd pay about 250-300 euro,350 max for a gun with the previously mentioned mods done out of the box,assuming it's an M4 with a standard metal body and no fancy castNC body like G&P and VFC,as well as being from a brand that does not generally have it's price inflated due to brand name. Keep in mind the average ACM gun can cost up to 250 quid here. 300 euro is roughly what a proline lonex bog standard M4 costs. If that gun existed and I was happy with the overall out of the box performance I would run it until it breaks then upgrade,assuming it breaks at all,if it's proper bombproof then I just leave it until I have a craving for more performance. I like to compare ACM more to Japanese tuners or such other cars - Toyota Supra(To more higher tier ACM),Nissan Silvia,Honda Integras,Subaru Imprezas,etc..,all that stuff than can be tuned to beat some higher tier supercars in some elements.

Thing is, and one of my big points,is that guns can be adjusted to this very cheaply and easily, but manufacturers are not doing this to save pennies on overall cost,reduce construction time which means more guns cranked out and reduce cost on QC. Personally,as long as a gun comes with AOE corrected OOTB,a usable mosfet, deans connectors and a neodymium motor ( in addition to standard internals of a modern gun,i.e steel gears,nylon piston,all that craic) I would be happy enough. I'd be extra happy if it came with Marui levels of OCD quality control but unfortunately paying workers is not a good option for some manufacturers

Radiused gearboxes & sorbothane padding even for low stress builds- It's really just my mentality of wanting to eliminate any possible source of failure so I can rest easy. Otherwise it will always be on my mind,I always look at GB shells and imagine possible sources where they might crack.They might be perfectly fine and well cast but my low faith in airsoft manufacturing standards just makes that feeling stronger.The same goes for known to be weak internal parts on guns. I like to have a gun that I can safely thrash around and never worry about a weak part failing. I like to know that if a gun I build can handle 40RPS on a 130 spring and a 40c 11.1 lipo reliably then it can handle much weaker stress long term and I don;t have to worry about it.

ehh...vocaloid and death metal does not go well for me .

CYMA gearboxes,especially V3s,have some QC issues where the holes for the gear axles/bushings/bearings on the shell are drilled off leading to the gears meshing poorly and screeching. You are not the only one. There are plenty of issues like this. More common on newer production runs. Several users on ASM have complained about this. CYMA have some good parts,especially their pistons,motors and hop ups but their QC is getting worse and worse. JG & quite recently,E&L have the best part QC of any ACM company IMO.

There's plenty of evidence on how R-hop is effective. AirsoftMechanics is the home where all of this 'snake oil' stuff generally comes from. Ask any reputable tech on there on how Rhop is effective,some practical evidence and theoretical evidence on how it is superior to traditional hop up. A longer tighter barrel has been shown,quite a few years ago to offer no real gains unless you have your gun matches to it. There's a thing called matching the volume of your cylinder to the barrel length,roughly,so the BB will always have air pressure pushing down on it. The thing is unless you have constant pressure behind the BB and instead have decreasing pressure It can reduce backspin and overall effectiveness. It's more widely accepted at ASM that the BB rides the top of the barrel from experiments with translucent acrylic barrels and simply looking at wear marks. Right now it seems that barrel bores at around 6.05 and a length of 400-430mm has been the 'sweet spot' for some guns but again,there are lots of variables such as air seal quality and consistency and volume matching. Sorbo pads reduce shock to the gearbox shell,so there is less stress on the metal. Shock absorbing is very much real and far from snake oil. Run a gun with no sorbopads on a 150 and one with sorbopads and see the difference. Radiusing gearboxes is no where near as effective as sorbo padding but does help marginally. A right angled cylinder window is more likely to crack than a radius ed one. If you can just imagine how the stress goes about on that point it will be clearer. I'm still rather novice at this AEG tech stuff,so I'm not too good at explaining. The thing with old TM reliability- They are not built to be upgraded,taken apart or to have different parts jammed in. All of their stuff is made in house to match each part well,tolerances are tight. The whole gearbox is under very low stress. The spring is soft, so there is no massive load to compress and no massive stress on the gearbox. The gears are under low stress so the bushings can be plastic. The piston is weak to stop you from jamming in a massive spring and going over the 1J legal limit. Seals generally don't dry out,silicone grease is fairly resilient stuff and I've never had any of my seals drying out. It's idiots who coat their shit in petroleum based slicone sprays who complain of seals going out or hop rubbers drying. Any gun can last a decade if it's matched well to the parts and tuned. That's TMs trait,it's ready to go with all the stuff in there. The chinese have their stuff OEM by different factories so tolerances are off. They produce things in massive quantities so everything is rushed and quickly assembled. Instead of designing and engineering everything with tight tolerances they just make it out of a tougher material. If you yourself decide to do what the factory should be doing in the first place,like not sneezing on it to lubricate it and not having a blind 4 year old assemble it,and putting in a weaker spring to reduce stress then they can chug along for decades of abuse due to even stronger parts than a TM. Not everyone has the skill or will to do all the little tuning so they guns often fail due to being over stressed or due to poor QC. The fixation with upgrades is what's really driving airsoft tech- we have things like CNC machined Chromoly steel gears which can take literally any spring reliably,neodymium motors with massive amounts of torque leading to more efficiency,dual sector gears for 50+ RPS and of course mods like G hop and R hop to get as much range and accuracy as possible. Airsoft tech has evolved massively. Compare the internals and performance of a Marui m4 from the early 2000s to something proper high tier like a Lonex M4 and there is a noticeable difference in material use and parts quality.

JG gearbox shells handle High ROF pretty well. It's a great all around gearbox. It just needs some love and care.

It's perfectly fine for a standard field gun. If you have good mechanical knowledge basic tech work should be easy enough. Shimming is just trial and error,AOE is very simple and regreasing is literally child's play.

Here's what needs to be done for no real tech work out of the box to be needed,for my standards at least. AOE corrected with sorobthane padding (New lonex guns come with this,only manufacturer who does this I think) does wonders for long term reliability and durability. Proper shimming (Some higher end guns have pretty good shimming,like TM) Good quality bushings or 8mm bearings (Not the sh*tty plastic TM & JG as well as some other outfits use) Deans connectors (G&P have this) Low resistance wiring (Lonex have their silver plated looms in their newer guns I think) Good sealed hop up and an overall properly made hop up unit. Realsword literally use some sort of glue to seal their buckings 100%. TM are still famous in their way of making hop up units work really well,some guys like CYMA make the best units in ACM. Bearing sporing guides (lots of outfits are coming out with these,which is nice) A basic mosfet (G&G nearly had this but their mosfet sucks balls) Good greasing! Not the sh*tty snot the Chinese use. FFS silicone grease costs pennies! Why do some manufacturers use odd colored earwax? Thankfully most high end guys have this done Radiused cylinder windows - Spread stress more evenly through the gearbox Aluminium gearbox shells- Although they can be used, Zamak shells are starting to get too weak for the higher stress stuff like DSG builds and super powerful DMR stuff. Neodymium motors - Neodymium magnets cost only pennies more than ferrous magnets. You can get an SHS HT for 30 quid,and most chinese manufacturers are coming with these. Part suitable for long term use and usage on stress higher than what comes stock- Metal injection molded gears are starting to come out at good prices and in stock guns like ICS Transform4 line, Polyacetal and Nylon pistons are very common on ACM. Some things I may have missed. But that's my basic opinion Right now there are no manufactures who's guns out of the box can compete with tuned or upgraded custom builds,but they are getting close now. More and more stock parts are getting better and do not need replacing. Once companies get proper material and part usage going it's just a matter of time until they start doing things like AOE correction and proper shimming stock. All we can do is still do the 15 quid tuneup and wait.

Ahah! My beloved JG V2! These gearboxes are some of the best you can get if you can do simply tuning like Shimming,AOE correction and re greasing. The parts quality in the box is great. Some are better than the stuff you find in higher end stuff. Assembly,greasing quality etc.. are horriffic to be frank but half an hours worth of work can get it to fantastic performance. This gearbox is very durable and reliable in my experiences. Great bang for buck Shells are often well cast out of Zamak and have the reinforcement in all the right places. Very strong shells,especially for the price. Gears on it are some of the strongest stock gears about. Bit noisy due to messy machine and casting work but very,very durable. Can take m150 spring no problem. Piston,assuming it's the newest production run of the gearboxes has half steel teeth with the 2nd tooth already removed to correct for AOE. Very,very durable piston. Newer JG pistons are very stronk. Piston head has the best seal out of a chinese gun I've seen. I have had trouble finding a better sealing head in a stock gun barring a TM one which was not supposed to,and did not deserve to seal so well . Cylinder is standard brass stuff. It's grand. Could do with some polishing to rid the old grease Cylinder head could use a new O ring but is usable. Nozzle is not too great but usable. I'd replace with an O ringed nozzle. Tappet plate is very strong. Popular among DSG build users since it's flexible and durable to keep up with the stress of a DSG. The one I worked on had metal bushings but due to QC and batch inconsistency some may come with plastic bushings. You can get decent metal,non oil channel metal bushings for very cheap and replacing them is an easy job. Wiring is not great but usable. Spring guide is very good quality- Due to Q/C and batch inconsistency they might be ball bearing or not ball bearing. The one I worked on was steel and ball bearing Overall- If you are prepared to invest an extra 10 quid for some new grease, a packet of shims & some metal bushings and sacrifice an hour for tech work it's a great gearbox. It's one of the better prebuilt drop ins about. My recommendations for a drop in Gearbox would either be this one or a Lonex one. You get really good bang for buck with this one. However if you just want something that's great performing,requires no work and very reliable I'd recommend Lonex,also re-branded under ASG ultimate pre built gearboxes. These are fancier,come with better air seal parts & wiring. Drive train on them is also good. They are pricey but lonex parts are some of the best out there and well worth it for people who do not wish to do a lot of tech work.

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