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Very inventive. Fugly...but inventive.

6.03mm is a tight bore anyway, any decent brand tbb will be fine.

Having been spectacularly dismissive of the MFG (Muzzle Flash Generator) and slightly bemused by the SMG Rattle, I was rather intrigued by the new Incentive Designs (henceforth ID - I really can't be arsed typing all that out) Tracer Mags. As a bit of a CQB freak I've been using a couple of tracers for a while (the B&T one and a QD Dytac one) both of which have been very effective but rather ungainly (especially the Dytac one stuck on my SCAR - makes it just that bit too long for running up stairs safely). I have an old G&P tracer mag that got used a few times but just wasn't all that bright. Having seen a review by a buddy of mine the new ID ones seem to use much brighter LEDs (technology has come a long way in a year or so) and having chatted with him they seem to be much better. So ID started selling Pmags modified with their new guts for £65 incl postage on ebay but 1) I don't like Pmags 2) they won't work in my AK and 3) I didn't want to pay that much for a tracer mag! I got in touch with Kev at ID and he offered to modify a couple of my own mags for £45 each including return postage so off went one G&G metal hi cap and a Cyma AK74 hi cap. They came back ina adecent amount of time and I finally had a chance to do a side by side comparison last night. The main difference in function is that the ID mags have a small slide switch on the side to turn the UV LED on and off meaning you can turn off the tracer function and still use the mag as a standard hi-cap. They use a micro LiPo battery and come with a small USB charger that lights up red while charging and blue when complete (not sure if it auto shuts off though). To the naked eye the ID mag LED is MUCH brighter - easily more than double the output of the G&P one. In use it certainly makes the tracer glow much brighter, not as bright as the silencer types but certainly more usable than the G&P. Granted the first few rounds will gradually fade in the hop unit so if you're a dedicated single shot sneaky ninja these are probably not for you (but then you probably won't be using hi-caps anyway). I've yet to properly skirmish the mags but I'll certainly report back with my findings (and hopefully some video if I can find someone with a decent camera that will pick up the tracer). TL;DR - yeah, they're pretty good!

Blimey....Combichrist. There's a blast from my murky past.

Might try that. I like Black Bush myself. Tried to visit the Bushmills Distillery while I was working over there but it was shut (on a Sunday - no shocker there I guess).

Jack is NOT a bourbon. Jack Daniels is a Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey. The process is slightly different than making bourbon as it includes an extra stage (the Lincoln County Process) which involves filtration through charcoal prior to ageing. Wild Turkey is indeed a bourbon (as are Jim Beam and the far superior - in my opinion at least - Makers Mark).

Sorry - do you mean Old No.7? The only No2 they do is from the Master Distiller series.

23:1 is more of a torque up ratio than a high speed ratio.

Sooooo many lengths! #confused

A standard knights armaments ris handguard for an m4 with delta ring and cap is actually 6.25" by the way. That's from knight's own website.

I currently have a 10" barrel and it's too long. By about 2"! :-) The madbull site has measurements as you say, but if you look the m4 barrels (m4a1 14.5" for example) show the length as not including the flash hinder threads. The 7.5" diplomat barrel is 202mm tip to tip which is nearer to 8" which would suggest again that the barrel length doesn't include the threaded tip. Either way, I had the tape measure out tonight. There's now an 8" urx barrel and a short kac ad suppressor en route from ehobby asia ;-)

No problem. I have an m4 flash mag and it can be a bit like that too. :-)

They come with one hi cap.

Worth a quick squirt into the mechanism but don't get it into the feed tube.

Once it's wound, try giving it a quick pull then let go. The shock should make it retract. Sounds like the pawl that latches the winder wheel is getting stuck.

Does it go most of the way back in but not completely or will it not retract at all?

I think you just found out why they were being sold... Is the string tangled or kinked?

Were they cheap and second hand?

The g&g one is much better.

Right then - leading on from my DD rail fitting thread debacle, I have two questions: Firstly - where do you measure the length of a floating rail? The one I have measures 7.5 inches along the top rail which makes sense as it was sold as a 7.5" DD style rail. Now the thing is - I know that if you have a standard M4 with original sight post and Delta Ring arrangement that a KAC style RIS handguard 7" long will fit. Which leads me on to the next question. Secondly - from exactly where to where on an M4 outer barrel is the length taken? Is it from the very end of the the prongs that go into the receiver to the tip of the 14mm thread or is it to the shoulder of the barrel (so excluding the threaded part). If I have a 7.5" floating RIS it makes sense to me that an outer barrel measuring 7.5" from base to shoulder should just have the threaded portion sticking out the front of the rail. With me so far? Good. I have seen a Madbull kit which purports to be a 4" rail that comes with a 9" barrel but the barrel only seems to stcik out by about an inch www.popularairsoft.com/news/daniel-defense-licensed-4-lite-rail-kit So does the picture in the article NOT show the barrel they say comes with the kit or am I measuring the whole thing wrong? The main reason I ask is that I want to get a new outer barrel to achieve the "Strike Back" look as below: and I don't want to end up buying yet another part that is slightly the wrong size. The barrel appears to have about 0.5" between the end of the rail and the back of the flash hider/suppressor in this pic. HAAAAAALLLPPPP!!!!

Pair of knock of MBUS sights and a FDE knock off MOE grip.

Considering going for the "Strike back" look - short barrel, lose the iron sights and fit a KAC QD suppressor up to the end of the rail. Any odea what length barrel I'd need to fit a standard flash hider and be able to get the KAC QD suppressor on? The choice seems to be Madbull Noveske in either 7.5" or 8.5", Dytac UXR 8" or Dytac SBR in 7.5". This is the kind of thing I mean:

So after much faffing and grinding the barrel nut fits. YAY! But.... When I went to fit the front sight post back on, it won't go on far enough. Strange I thinks to myself. Out with the taper measure and yep, you guessed it - it's not a 7" rail. It's a 7.5" rail. Never buy stuff on ebay late at night. So - ditch the rail? Change the barrel? What say you all?

Difficult to tell from an ebay listing and I'm not particularly clued up on APS as a brand but I would bet good money on it not matching up properly with your lower receiver.