BrightCandle

I suspect this might be able to help with the how:

Every forum has its bias and issues around the culture that has grown there, its all part of fitting in to that community that you don't rock the boat too much. I suspect that Arrse is one of those places where the reasonable and nice guys in the armed forces don't go, or leave very quickly because the existing culture is full of the horrible idiots that no one likes anyway. Plenty of forums are just broken and it all stems from the moderators. The moderation team makes the entire difference on a forum, they drive the behaviour of the forum entirely they set the tone and culture and enforce it that way.

Hunter seeker has some videos and such about them on his website (https://sites.google.com/site/hsarmory/home/products-and-services):

For followers Hunter seeker has designed a better follower and I know airlab sells them.

I haven't seen much in the way of tests and proof but I have certainly read that around 450mm is the optimal length for a normal cylinder and that this produces the best possible accuracy, but also in the same comment the same people are saying length doesn't really matter very much at all.

The lesson When defending just because I see one (or more) team mates appearing to take defend a particular approach does not mean I can turn my back and ignore it until I hear one of them call hit. Its unfortunately especially true with the younger players. The latest lesson I was playing in Billericay (70 player game) and we were defending a section called the green zone. Its a close up CQB square in the middle of the wood and there are basically 4 ways into it. My buddy was covering one of the major avenues from a good position but it left him vulnerable to his left side, so I took a firing arc to cover him well. But we were both highly exposed to the rear with a couple of exits just 5 metres and knowing another route into the compound not that far behind us. Before I went prone and got maximum cover etc I checked the rear for cover and found 3 people covering the entrance behind us. Went back, went prone and covered my entrance. About 5 minutes later I got shot in the arse (literally) and my buddy also went down. There were no calls of hits, not shots from that direction at all, the defenders had just walked off leaving one of the major entrances, and our backs completely undefended. Conclusion When I play Arma I know that my team mates have their sectors, its part of our training and the guys that stick around stay put and getting shot in the back never happens. In Battlefield however seeing a guy covering a corner one second makes no guarantees about 5 seconds after that. Some of your airsoft team mates are much more like Battlefield than Arma. The lesson I need to learn is which is which, or perhaps trust but check frequently. Certainly something I need to do differently to make my arse less of a target! If this was the first time this had happened since I started playing airsoft I wouldn't think much of it, but its the fourth.

A VSR clone and then parts, lots and lots of parts! Expect to spend the next year tweaking that puppy until its airseal would serve good duty on the international space station and shoots so consistently you could shoot down a mig with it. OK honestly its not that serious, while the guns as they come are underpowered and a not quite as accurate as ideal they are a decent place to start. The TM VSR is still a competitor and washing your heavy BBs and fixing basic airseal around the hop will work surprisingly well to get started. There are whole forums dedicated to sniper gun teching if you want to go that way or it might be worth ringing your favourite retailer and asking what they can build in terms of a custom sniper rifle.

My typical repair kit is a long philips screwdriver (for going down the buffer tube), a normal Philips screwdriver, a small pointed drive for taping out the pins, a hammer and an allen key for the gearbox. That is basically needed for every repair job/upgrade I do. Some silicon spray and gear greese and some kitchen towel solves most of the issues and from there I would probably add some duck tape! Anything that goes beyond that is going to require a purchase in my experience.

Its strange how reading that just knocked all the respect for the armed services right out of me. There was I thinking these individuals put their lives on the line to defend the British way of life, there isn't a single British way of life comment in the whole thread. The level of prejudice, racism and general nastiness is not something I expected. If they really think so lowly of the people they defend why bother, we can have a guess at the reasons. These guys are the ones that don't get it, life and hating others isn't what any individual should be about, these people are failing at life.

The Sandpit would have been my go to site if it hadn't been for the two tone thing, strangely enough I haven't yet bothered to go over there despite it being my local premium site, the dates have never aligned with my schedule. THe regulars there presumably don't care if the numbers are somewhat diminished by the two tone thing but its definitely having an impact. I suspect one of the big things is to reduce the amount of younger individuals in the game, they tend to be associated with two tones for good reason and this is one way to do that without actively saying ">18 only".

Really to be true milsim you want the choice to attack or defend and various objectives and how they are captured and such in the hands of the command and the leaders of the various parts of the army, ie its not set by the organisers. That way the battle is fluid and objectives can be won and lost over the event.

The only laws I know of are related to air weapons and its 6J of a pistol and 12J for a rifle. There isn't as far as I know any allowed automatic fire air rifles/pistols. I don't think those limits are actually legally defined, I think they are the limits all sites will be under.

A standard bucking can overhop a BB in just the same way a longer hop patch contact can. But a longer contact patch (in this case R hop, but it could be a G hop or a flat hop) will apply less spin per amount of contact, more gradually spinning the BB in comparison to a default bucking. This reduces the amount of difference between the shots, it therefore improves consistency and also makes the hop wheel somewhat less sensitive aiding in dialing it to the perfect amount. Thus the impact when done well is it improves the effective range of the weapon, although it can't as you rightly point out improve the maximum range. Its all about consistency/accuracy.

You mean in terms of whether its 6.08, 6.03 etc? I don't know of a measuring tool that can do it actually, its one of the complaints the airsoft mechanics. Does it matter? I thought the R hop Z kit gave you a few different pieces and you file it to suit your barrel. I personally found consistency improved with a G hop, not so much range but certainly the variance in hop reduced. Hard to measure the accuracy improvement without a 30m range but it was very noticable and I suspect the R hop will show a similar effect for you once its done right.

Ultimately the GR16 magazines I am using cause two issues. One is they can't be filled to 120 rounds, 100 maximum. Secondly they don't reliably feed on full auto, they will drop about 1 round in 20 or so. But otherwise the rounds shoot the same as they do coming out of the high cap that came out of the box. I do intend to get some different mid caps, but so far I have been living with the minor issues and they feed better than the hicap (not uncommon for the G&G hicap to be rubbish, was with my combat machine as well). The warranty sticker is still in place on the gun, its covering the magic point on the gearbox and I haven't gone in there at all. I might have broken warranty but its because I know that my problem isn't really covered. I am wanting to shoot and hit targets beyond 30m, and right now I can just about hit a man size target at that range with a burst but its pretty bad accuracy even at 20m where my expectation would have been semi single shots should hit reliably, but its not that good at all. I spoke to LWA about it and they say its pretty normal accuracy, so yeah not going to get a warranty replacement on that one. Distance selling rules were already long gone by the time I got the gun out to skirmish so another bit of defensive law that isn't much use when skirmishs are every 2 weeks! Its not really faulty or not fit for purpose its just exceptionally rubbish quality. But since the gun wont even reach out to 40m at all I can literally see how poorly the hop is performing, I am getting almost no lift after the BB slows down. Instead I either get arch downs with too little hop or immediate lift out of the barrel putting the flight path well above the point of aim and zeroing capabilities of the scope. There doesn't seem to be anything in between, which suggests to me the hop spin isn't being applied and kept on the BB's very well. The range isn't even that good with the hop up that high and the accuracy is kind of awful with the hop being applied, and the range too short to care with it off. As I said before my accuracy is somewhere in the region of 1-1.5m of spread at 30m. So its possible to hit a human target with about 5-10 rounds, but its a long way away from what reviewers show this gun should be able to do, and indeed what other guns actually do achieve. I got a good look at some well running AEGs on the skirmish this weekend and I am outranged by 20m's and they have almost laser beams compared to mine. We messed with the hop and I went through a lot of different ammo that some fellow skirmishers gave me to try and in the end it was a little better with 0.30g BB's but not significantly. Something in the gun isn't too the quality level it ought to be, and accuracy and range are mostly in the hop and the barrel. The hop bucking I have fixed, that helped a little. The next thing I am going to do is either lap or replace the barrel. I think that is honestly the next step to trying to make it work better. Seal on the hop bucking definitely improved with the prometheus purple, but its not brought back all of the original FPS so something else in the airseal is still dodgy.

Its an S&T but the elite version not the sport. But Elite force just informed me they can't deliver it despite Uk being on the list of places to deliver. Bummer. Well I guess I am still on the hunt for one, might have to actually go to evike or airsoftgi and pay extortion shipping costs. I think I give up trying to get a Tavor, they are fatally flawed design guns anyway, need a tonne of work to go correctly.

An Elite Force Tavor Tar 21 and 10 magazines. Imported from the USA and direct from manufacturer. Cost a pretty penny, it better work!!!

Quality barrel, good hop bucking or a hop mod (like R hop) and consistent FPS by having a good air seal. The first two are easy to get with a good barrel and hop bucking but the later might need more work on the piston, piston head, cylinder, cylinder head, the nozzle and the hop unit.

I have spoken to landwarrior about warranty claims, the errant charging handle button and the accuracy issues are not something they are willing to cover with the warrranty. One is damage I did on a site and the other is part of the natural variance between guns. It fundamentally works. I also informed them about the issues I had with the magazines and that equally wasn't a warranty issue for them as the magazines fed. People seem to still be under the impression this can be fixed under warranty, I tested this theory a month ago and it definitely isn't.

Just because they come with a 6.03 tight bore doesn't mean its any good. For one thing its brass and not steel, and for the other the barrel itself might not be all that straight or finished very well. I haven't yet proven my barrel is at fault for my accuracy issues, but with FPS consistent (within 3 fps) and a g hop in there I am now leaning towards my wonderful 6.03 tightbore barrel from G&G being the issue causing terrible accuracy. Tightbore != accuracy Good quality = accuracy whether its tight or not What a tightbore does is use gas more efficiently, so it raises FPS. We have good video evidence that the BB travels along the top of the barrel regardless of the inner diameter, and that minor issues in that can impact accuracy and range. So I wouldn't say there is no upgrade available not at all. But at the very least test your barrel and determine how the accuracy holds up compared to other guns at range before you determine there is an issue.

I went out to a different site in Billericay this weekend and finally got to test the new Prometheus purple G hop. The hop works, but its not any more consistent than the previous one. Accuracy is still bad. Seeing a lot of horizontal motion as well as the inconsistent hop so its all over the place. In addition to that my charging handle lost its button out on the field (G&G really make utter rubbish) and so now I can't pull the metal of the EBB back to get to the hop wheel properly. G&G don't even sell replacements as far as I can tell so does anyone know which other companies handles are compatible and will grab that EBB plate properly? I am done with G&G at this point, I am going to repair the gun, sell it and go buy something decent. I have had two guns which have been utter rubbish at this point. Seeing the consistency that some of the other guys on site have in stock I can see its just not worth gutting the entire contents of this gun and trying to get it working as it ought to when the externals are kind of poor to begin with.

Hopefully its just a matter of adjustment and it will be back to normal. But there is a chance you have damaged the gears in some way if you have gone in too far with the motor. Quickest way to know is to adjust the height of the motor and see what it does. If it still doesn't turn over the gears then the motor or the gears might be damaged.

0.25g makes a lot of accuracy difference for me in doors at just 10m when compared to 0.20g. 0.28g also makes even more difference. At some point the projectile gets too slow to be used effectively against moving targets, but the heavier BBs for me at least seem to be measurably more accurate.

Seeing as how every site chrono's on 0.20's it would seem that is the usual expected ammo and my experience in my local sites is that most people seem to use 0.20g BBs.

I do the same, I just count out the rough round count and go on the rough assumption of 1mah = 1 shot. Its overly cautious but its not like I have a problem with changing the batteries over at lucnh.