Mr Monkey Nuts

Fairy power spray it and it will come off in less than 5 min

Haven't you just bought a gun? Stop worrying about RIFs and go out and enjoy it.

I seem to remember reading that there are issues with clearance for the reciprocating pseudo bolt with most upper receivers, so may need a bit of custom dremel work. Also worth considering that a cheep metal receiver will be made of darylea where as the standard gr16 polymer is amazingly robust.

Mine is the same, just jam it in with a screw driver. it's something that has been putting me off rewiring to decent wires.

Granted but its easer to understand than Tetrafluoroethane and easier to explain why air can't practically be compressed.

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.

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

Are magazine gas release valves a uniform size? As in does each each valve have the same pitch and depth or do they vary by brand?

Ah I see, the asg ultimate mosfet has spade connectors, designed with front wired m4 in mind.

If you can screw a screw you can learn to solder, it's not hard.

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.

The pico ssr is no bigger than 4 bbs in a row, I'm sure there is somewhere you can find to fit that. if not, you have no chance of fitting any mosfet anywhere.

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.

Have you considered why nobody else is doing it?

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.

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.

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:

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Do you live near a The Range? http://www.therange.co.uk/pws/StoreFinder.ice?country=GB. I was suprised to find they sell Krylon and plastikote. One thing I did find frustrating about krylon was that it appeared to stay softer than other paints, although it is still pretty resistant to knocks and chips.

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.

Changing the volume of the cylinder isn't an option as its proprietary to the pneumatic blow back, is there an alternative?

Question for the more experienced techy guys, I have recently installed a 250mm 6.03 barrel in my GR16, (originally a 360mm) since then the FPS has dropped from 335 to 280, nearly 50 FPS. is that normal for a shortened barrel? Compression seems good, if I block the end of the barrel and fire, it causes a lot of resistance, and the hop up seems to be sealed nicely. It has a m100 spring as it was shooting hot at 380 when I bought it, bearings, shimmed and a guarder high torque motor. So will 11mm barrel make that much of a difference or should I be looking for other issues? Thanks in advance Mr Monkey

Here it is http://www.airsoft-forums.co.uk/index.php/topic/21503-glock-acog-and-a-few-other-bits/

Buy mine in the for sale section

If their flesh was necrotic enough to be damaged by a bb they would not be able to move. Their legs and hips would literally collapse under the weight of their torso.