Lozart

Bought plenty from them and not had any issues.

Loz/Lozzy is my IRL nickname. The "art" bit came when I started painting stuff for money (which I don't do any more).

Ah, I was thinking of the newer ones with the rotary hop.

I would say that the majority of that improvement has come from the rubber. The hop unit in the Combat machines isn't actually that bad.

I'm almost tempted to find the absolute worst PoS, overpriced MTW for sale and put the two of them in touch.

Isn't that basically a 5.11 Tactec carrier?

I'm guessing he's bolted on the ENTIRE catalogue from this place https://tridos.design/pages/ssx23-nano-carbine plus a few more besides. Even so, taking the piss.

That is straight off the Vector Optics FAQ to be honest.

They're 30mm tube, so I'd say a 30mm killflash (assuming that's the kind of protector you're looking for).

I used to love watching How as a kid!

The one you've made into an SBS? Cos that's exactly what I was going to do with it....PM me.

Thanks, bot.

Damn you, Jez I was waiting for payday to pick up that MC51. Bloody sold out now. You bastard.

Makes sense. I'm assuming it IS your Audrey clock though, right?

Two questions - 1) are the triple viper pouches on a molle placard converter thing? 2) the mismatched grout lines on the top of your bathroom tiles are making my brain itch.

Except that a bout of the shits and spewing your ring from drinking contaminated water exacerbates your dehydration. So it had better be an extreme emergency to drink water you know to be contaminated to "survive".

As long as the charging handle pulls the mock bolt out the way of the hop unit it doesn't really matter what the dust cover does!

Definitely flat like your second pic. Where did you get it from? I take it it came in a proper E&C package and everything?

That's what mine looks like too (E&C M16A2 receiver set). To be fair, mine arrived preassembled so it's not been an issue but the charging handle end is like this:

I'll have a look at mine later, from the outside there seems to be an extra little tag that sticks out the top of the ejection port that flips the cover open.

Is this happening when the gun is assembled, with the gearbox in?

The Specna M249 range is a direct copy (potentially just rebadged) A&K. If you look on the gearbox casing it should have an A&K marking. Regardless, the gearbox takes standard V2 gears and IIRC the motor is a short shaft. When you say you want to improve RoF, by how much? The box mags aren't great at keeping up with ridiculous RoF anyway but more to the point, it's a support gun. You can suppress better with a lower rate of fire. As for range - better hop rubber is where I'd start. Most of the aftermarket hop units seem to cause feeding issues, if you're not getting enough hop it could be suffering from the same problem that the Classic Army and A&K guns do that the bit that presses down on the nub just doesn't have enough travel. Google for "A&K M249 biro mod".

I feel seen.

It's exactly that. IIRC Beta Project made the old PTS PMags way WAAAAY back.

Looks like the Beta Project EXP mag to me, 140 rnd AEG versions are available but seem to be a bit hard to find in the UK. I have some, they're....OK.