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  1. Yes I know that, my external barrel is 10" and threaded, it would simply be a case of putting on the extension piece to allow me to use a 407mm inner barrel instead of the 250mm I use now.

    If I just put the longer barrel in without adjusting the spring I will be massively over power, hence why I am considering a qr gearbox.

  2. My G&G GR16 has finally given up and started to eat itself, causing an FPS crippling air leak. So I'm going to rip all the ebb stuff out and just put a standard cylinder in. Whilst I'm at it I got thinking about using a quick release spring gearbox so I can swap and change the barrel lengths and FPS for different games and sites.

     

    But I can't seem to find any. I know Lonex did one, and I found a full gearbox from tomtac at helmet world, but i only need the shell.

     

    Am I looking in the wrong places? Do you guys have any recommendations?

  3. My G&G GR16 has finally given up and started to eat itself, causing an FPS crippling air leak. So I'm going to rip all the ebb stuff out and just put a standard cylinder in. Whilst I'm at it I got thinking about using a quick release spring gearbox so I can swap and change the barrel lengths and FPS for different games and sites.

     

    But I can't seem to find any. I know Lonex did one, and I found a full gearbox from tomtac at helmet world, but i only need the shell.

     

    Am I looking in the wrong places? Do you guys have any recommendations?

  4. General opinion also suggest that Gas Blowback guns are hard to maintain, lipos will destroy your gun burn down your house and rape your mum, and that a tight bore barrel will instantly improve your ability to hit a target.

    All have an ounce of basis but none are absolute. General opinion is often misguided.

     

    The HFC glock and the TM glock are pretty much identical excluding a few tolerances and material differences. Its also interesting to note that the HFC gun was released a significant time before Tokyo Marui released theirs. I have also had less trouble with the HFC magazine than I have with both my Marui mags, both were empty and dry direct from firesupport. I can't speak for any other HFC pistols, Its far from the best gun you can buy, but I would rate it as the best gun for under £75.

  5. What pistol is the most ambiguous question in all of airsoft. there are so many variables and differences that it makes it almost impossible to narrow it down to a definitive answer.

     

    First you need to decide what power platform you want.

     

    Spring - weakest power output, single shot not advised for skirmishing

    HFC134a (Tetrafluoroethane, or PC duster gas) - weak power, good reliability and resistant to temp changes.

    Green Gas (or Propane) - good power capable of 300fps +, available nearly everywhere, performance is influenced by temperature. colder days lower fps, hotter days hotter fps. Green gas is the most inefficient in terms of consumption, you will / should refill the mag every other reload. Its expensive £10 for 300g of WE Premium green gas. Camping propane requires additional silicone to keep things lubricated. power will drop off as remaining gas volume reduces

    C02 - Strongest power capable of 350+, easy to use, efficient some non blow back guns last up to 6 or 7 reloads on a single bulb.More consistent power than green gas, same lubrication issues with propane although C02 guns seem to be built a bit more robustly. Not as effected by temperature. Harder blowback. Some guns will shoot over power, the KWC desert eagle has been known to shoot 380fps out of the box. Its hard to adjust or regulate the power of a C02 gun.

    Autamotic Electric Pistol or AEP - runs on a battery with a motor, reliable, consistent, cheap, weak and a bit boring, but great for playing in very cold environments.

     

    Consider Blowback or Non Blowback. pretty obvious from the title blowback has a recoil, it moves the slide to replicate a real firearm and chambers the next bb. These are great for realism but use more gas. Non Blow Back are fixed slide, gas only propels the bb so there is less recoil and less wear damage.

     

    Avoid full auto on a pistol. Its fun, but will leave you needing a back up, back up gun when you have no ammo left 2 seconds later.

     

    Once you have decided on your power, you need to decide on what type of gun you like. You really need to hold them and feel them. They need to fit in your hand, they need to be comfortable and they need to be an extension of yourself to be effective as a pistol. For some people a glock is too small, for some people a glock is too top heavy, for some a glock is too big. In the real world, glock was designed as the utilitarian gun, good at everything, perfect at nothing and its popularity and success in the real world shows it. You really do need to get hands on and pick one that feels nice.

     

    Things to remember are any moving parts will wear down eventually, so regular maintenance and lubrication of the internals is essential. It only takes a quick wipe and a strategic drop of silicon oil every so often.

    Plastic slides and green gas are the most vulnerable to wear and tare, however upgrading a plastic slide gun to a metal slide gun is a headache and will never truly work as well as it should do. if you are concerned about wearing down a plastic slide then chose a metal slide. Having said that I ran almost 2000 rounds through my plastic slide with premium green gas and caused no visible damage at all, some claim (un verified) that green gas kills plastic slide maruis in just a few magazines.

     

    Consider how many magazines you want and if they are available. I have a HFC185, brilliant gun almost identical to my TM at half the price and shoots just as accurately. But the magazines are now out of production, so obtaining a second would involve a costly import from Evike. WE and TM have generally good suppliers so you can be confident parts will be available.

    And with magazine consider how many rounds you need. A dan westsern look the shizzle, but are overpowered and only 6 shots. A glock with a 50 round mag will terrify anyone but weighs a ton. a 1911 is a very nice gun, feel nice shoots nice, but most have 11 shots. Good for a backup, not good if you want to clear a building.

     

    After all that it does come down to what you perceive your need of the pistol and then finding one that fits YOU. We can't tell you what gun will work for you, only you can decide.

     

    TLDR: Buy my Glock

  6. You are on about the Airsoft Systems Smart Control mosfett yes?

     

    Way overpriced personally, the gate version does a bit more and is only £50 and I'm sure I have seen the Taiwanese company's selling programable digital mosfett for £35.

     

    Does it replace the entire trigger mech and gives you a trigger switch? The fire support site has a horrendous listing.

  7. Being shot in the eye is being shot in the eye, regardless of whether its shot by a child or a "l33t airsoft operatorz" the trauma is still exactly the same. Nobody is suggesting we don't wear any form of eye pro. I'm just providing evidence and data related to actual eye injuries instead of "this one time" hearsay stories.

     

    I cant access the full study as i'm at work, but its a restrospective data analysis and has been replicated multiple times across the globe with similar results. There are 15 studies on Pubmed related to airsoft (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=airsoft) mostly about eye trauma.

     

    Interestingly the majority are discharged with a visual acuity of 1 (which means 20:20 or normal vision), suggesting that although there are some cases of serious eye injuries, the majority don't suffer any permanent sight loss.

  8. If you are settled on a WE glock, then patrol base have the WE mags in stock http://www.patrolbase.co.uk/gas-and-co2-pistol-magazines/we-g-series-glock-17-magazine.htm#.U5x9zfldV8E

     

    I have a Tokyo Marui glock, slightly more expensive, and a plastic slide, but mags will always be available as they are distributed by fire support who are considerably more reliable than WE europe.

     

    http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/marui-g17-g17-gbb-pistol

    http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/marui-g18c-semi--auto-gbb-pistol

    http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/marui-gbb-magazine-g17g18cg26-advanced-25-rnd

     

    £150 delivered for the g17 and a second mag.

     

    The full auto on the 18c is a fun feature but it is unusable for skirmish, zero accuracy and will empty a mag in a few seconds.

  9. Those 50 rd mags sound like a cracking plan, but they are not in reality, I rarely use mine.

    You need three arms to fill 50 rounds, one to hold the spring down, one to hold the mag and one to hold the loader, they are long and very heavy and almost 9 inches long.

     

    Do you really need 75 pistol shots in a woodland game? In an indoor CQB they can be good, but for most games you will just be luging it about all day.

     

    Pick up a second 25 round mag if you need an extra one, changing mags with a pistol is half the fun.

  10. If you have an Athens account and are that way inclined, there is a lot of studies on airsoft trauma and particularly eye injuries. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23654010

     

    This one in particular is interesting:

     

     

     


    Ocular injuries caused by airsoft guns - ten-year experience.
    INTRODUCTION:

    The study describes ocular injuries caused by airsoft guns pellets, type of these injuries and their incidence in different age groups.


    METHODS:

    This is a retrospective review of medical charts of patients who were hospitalized due to airsoft guns ocular injuries in ten-year period (from 2000 to 2009). Patient's age, gender, duration of hospitalization, type of treatment and initial and final visual acuity were analyzed.


    RESULTS:

    Overall 92 patients with ocular injuries caused by airsoft gun pellets were hospitalized in ten-year period. In all patients only one eye was injured and there were 72 (78.3%) male patients. Injuries involved ocular adnexa, anterior and posterior segment of the eye. On initial examination 41 (44.6%) patients were presented with subconjunctival hemorrhages, 42 (45.6%) with corneal abrasion, 42 (45.6%) patients had corneal edema, 6 (6.5%) had traumatic mydriasis, 90 (97.8%) patients exhibited hyphema, 10 (10.9%) iridodialysis, in 27 (29.3%) patients high intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured, one patient had subluxation of intraocular lens (IOL) and one patient had traumatic cataract. Posterior segment findings included vitreous hemorrhage in 3 (3.3%) patients, retinal hemorrhage in 15 (16.3%) patients, retinal edema in 35 (38.0%) patients and one patient had globe rupture. Average duration of hospitalization was 5.7 days (range from 1 to 18 days). Three patients (3.3%) required eye surgery, eight patients (8.7%) had anterior chamber washout while rest of the patients were conservatively managed. Visual acuity at hospital release was significantly improved comparing to initial visual acuity, ranging from counting fingers at 1 meter to 20/60 in 7 (8.6%) patients, from 20/50 to 20/30 in 13 (16.0%) patients and from 20/25 to 20/20 in 61 (75.3%) patients. In 11 patients testing the visual acuity was not possible because of their young age.


    CONCLUSION:

    Injuries attributed to airsoft guns were confined mostly to anterior segment. There was also high percentage of severe posterior segment trauma requiring hospital admission. The most important factors in preventing such injuries are restricting access to airsoft guns, especially to minors, as well as mandatory use of protective equipment such as protective eyeglasses.

     

  11. has the possibility to force air into a vein, with then can go to the heart and cause serious problems.

     

    Just ... no. It can't.

    First off it takes over 10ml of air injected directly into a large vein to cause any sort of embolism, 10 ml is a significant amount of air its quite a large syringe.

    2nd, the veins are under your skin, in order for a BB to penetrate a vein it first has to penetrate through the skin and cause deep vascular damage.

    3rd, the veins and arteries are under pressure, greater pressure than the pressure of the air, we know pressure flows from high to low, if any damage opened up a vein blood would be flowing out preventing air from flowing in.

    4th Gas under pressure dissipates into the air, you would not be able to accurately flow 10ml into the small opening of a vein with a gun.

     

    It is impossible to get an air embolus from a BB.

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