LazzurusMan

Are gearboxes replaceable? (Shows just how new to airsoft I am)

Unfortunately saving money isn't too easy atm. I only have the £30 for this for my birthday, and with all my bills etc I can't save up more than £20 a month, if I quit smoking and hardly ride my motorcycle XD

If he still has it I could go for a M1 carbine for the same price, same make too. Will either one be overly up-gradable? I know they chrono at 280 on average, would I be able to up that with a better spring?

Before the cry's of "Avoid it at all costs" appear, I've been offered one for £30 posted, and was just wondering whether it would make a decent starter gun. Something I can use to get a feel for airsoft and even abuse to learn more about the internals of airsoft through upgrading.

http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?cPath=279_348_643&products_id=3589 This says it's for the Marui 27, but they don't make one. From what I can tell it's a 26 slide...

Just found a great guide to finding metal slides for all tm Glocke.

:/ it's not so much the crack, that should be fine. After I get my ukara I wanted to get a black slide. Of course, IS the small cracking gonna be an issue?

http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/ksc-metal-slide-and-outer-barrel-for-g26-gbb.html#.VNQfP2keLqB Long shot, but usable?

Well I know the we g26 is an exact copy, so I was thinking of getting the shorter slide from one of them to make it more compact

So any metal slide for a 26 tm will fit on the advanced?

Oh :/ Any possibility I could just use a metal slide for a G26 or G17?

So I've found a TM G26 advanced for £65 in my local area, AND he'll two tone it. Only problem is a small crack in the front of the slide. I was wondering if there was any chance I would be able to find a replacement, in metal. I know they stopped making the 26 advanced, but can I get a metal slide for it still?

I'm getting a £400 sig 556 dmr for £135, I have no issues about the gun part of sniping, I'm just not sure about trying to find cover, waiting for targets etc etc.

I have advertised on a lot of forums that I'm looking for a cheap GBB pistol, if noone wants to sell one though, I'll go for the compact in a UKARA safe green XD

Pretty simple really, I'm just curious as to what sniping is like in airsoft, as if it doesn't sound right for me I have to decide on a new idea for my main armament. Any input will be helpful, and any stories would also be great!

Roll on pay day. Cheers for all the help

*Beretta is about 70cm long in the grip too, so with 10mm less on the XDM my hand will still fit. Yay, I now have 2 guns to save up for! Thank you very much for the help, but I do have one more question I hope everyone/someone can help me with. When I buy the gun, what Gas should I use??

Well I'm currently holding my brothers cheap, taccy sunday market spring barretta and that fits quite comfortably, with a few mill room for movement and I suppose if the trigger guard was smaller or wasn't there I could comfortably get my hand smaller. Could you possibly give me the length, width and depth of the glock 17 grip? I could then use that to compare to the barretta and see how much room I could have. This all seems rather serious for toys guns doesn't it XD

Only problem I can find with that gun now is that if the small mags make the gun too small for my hand I can't find the magazine adapters for the larger mags anywhere, not even on their own site.

I'm guessing I can't buy the pistol from that site as they're not UK based, it's slightly cheaper on there. £20 per mag isn't bad from the other site though, but I would have to wait until I got the gun to buy mags, I'd want to see if the smaller mag is comfortable.

http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?cPath=267_314&products_id=3533 I think I've found the one...as long as I can find more 26+ round mags for it, I've got a feeling the smaller mags would make the pistol too small to hold, I suppose I wont know unless I bought one.

http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/reviewpost/showproduct.php/product/952/title/galaxy-mp5k-pdw/cat/16 More than a little put off :/ Maybe I will just go for a gas or electric pistol, I suppose they can produce a better weapon for less if there's less weapon to produce.

Actually, I've always wanted to use my airbrush on something like this...I could easily do some kind of outlandish camo on it...

Okay, so after looking I might actually like the galaxy MP5 with no stock...but I just can't stand it in blue or "red". Anyone know where I could maybe get one in realistic colours?

Only gripe I have with the MP5 is that it's unbalanced for one handed use, because the mag is in front of the pistol grip and the front is long it has all the weight forward (I had an MP5 before and tried using it one handed). With something like the MP7 or even an Uzi if I could find one I liked, that problem doesn't exist. All the weight is right above the grip.