BrightCandle

I got a Krytac SPR from patrol base a while back (for those following this saga I am having a few issues getting what I want with this one) and I am having real trouble getting the buffer screw out. I usually just use an extension for my screwdriver that takes different heads but it couldn't provide enough torque with this one so I bought a philips 150mm screwdriver and have damaged the screw somewhat and its still not moved a little bit. I know that patrolbase must have opened the gun as Krytac ships these with 380 fps springs and this one has a certification from patrolbase that its 315 fps. I am wondering if anyone else has had suspicion to believe they may have glued the buffer screw in? I just don't think this is ever going to come out and I have no idea how I will drill out something that far down the buffer tube safely and then find a replacement.

The viper multi bag is one of the ones I use. It holds a pistol + 2 magazines, a pretty small SMG and a short M4 without the extension being out. I have personally found the height is fine for an M4 but not for a Tar21. The Tar 21 is a little bit taller due to its trigger guard and handle combination and it ends up being just 0.25 inches too tall to have the case close with a sight on there. It will fit without optics but the optics are just slightly too tall. The cheap swiss arms one I have on the other hand is capable of holding a considerably longer gun and also fits the confines of the tar 21 with optics. They both do the job, neither has great protection for the item itself they just stop people noticing what I am carrying.

I would love to be able to tell you I found a solution, I played with these boots through the winter in Billericay when its basically a swamp and every time I have spent a day with wet feet! I really need to buy some better boots but I find these ones so darn comfortable its hard to let go.

Correction its the Elite Force SL14. I recently got the Elite force SL14 speed loader, its the 1800 round pump action loader. You pour BBs into it and then shake it vertically up then down a few times then pump and its meant to put 40 rounds into a midcap magazine, so three pumps and you have a full magazine and then you take it off and connect another. In my experience over the weekend what actually happens is I get about 10-20 rounds. It takes a lot of shaking to get the rounds to go into the feeding tube and it takes longer to load than a normal pistol loader as its so unreliable about getting the rounds into the chamber. I can't stress enough how disappointing this product is. If you looked at the reviews on youtube and such you would have thought this thing was amazing and very quick to load magazines. But practically since it doesn't work as advertised it ends up being considering slower as you need more than 3 pumps and unfortunately it isn't consistent about what it feeds so you can't count the rounds in like you can with a speed loader leaving you prone to under/over load. I tested it using Nuprol 0.30g BBs and EPM magazines. It had no issues pushing rounds into the magazine but the BBs did not feed into the feeding tube. In addition they are super hard to get out. So if you want to change or use different ammo you'll need to pump it mostly out and then its hard to get it into a bottle afterwards due to the spring pushed door on the top. As the BBs run down the ability for the feed tube to fill diminishs as well so it becomes all but impossible to actually empty the loader, at 300 rounds in there or so it might only put 5 rounds in but it takes you longer to shake them there than it does to plung a basic speed loader. Utter waste of money do not buy it.

As part of Okto milsim I had two friends travel from abroad to come to the game. The one from Denmark had some issues flying and I thought I would share our experiences and what we found out. My friend flew with SAS and having spoken to them and heathrow security months before flying all that needed to happen was to tell them what was being carried to the airline and then it could be brought in for the weekend so long as it was in a locked hard case in the hold, they gave no further requirements. On the day however turning up into the airport in Copenhagen the airline was unsure, xrayed it (the inner barrel doesn't even appear and the outer barrel is clearly not strong enough to survive a round being fired) and then required it have a firearms tag attached to it and have it shipped as a firearm in the plane which cost £50 as they were unsure what UK customs would do with it. Then when it got into the UK customs security checked it and found a RIF instead and wouldn't let it pass without details of the insurance of the site we were going to. We provided all the sites information and they let it through but that actually didn't contain proof of insurance, I don't think I have ever seen a site say anything other than the fact they have insurance but regardless the site details were sufficient. I think it passed the attitude test more than the letter of whatever rule they had in place however, it was touch and go. The security guy did say this was only the second time he had seen a RIF come through security in 6 years. On the way back there was no problems in Heathrow the RIF was allowed onto the plane without further incident. In Copenhagen my friend went into the "something to declare" red zone and showed the RIF and the security guy took one look at it and laughed and asked why he was declaring a toy and sent him on his way.

I can confirm that the Viper special ops boots (number 3) are not waterproof. Its not just the zips, its actually in and around the front areas as well the water gets in near your toes. I have tried a variety of external treatments to try and seal them and reality is I can't get them to be dry. They don't appear to have issues with wet terrain but when you step full into a puddle that comes up over the plastic lip of the boot (so deeper than 2cm or so) you will feel the water come in through the seal from the condura to the base of the boot. Those boots aren't waterproof. They are very comfy however that is something they absolutely have going for them, I had zero issues with blisters and other such problems they are the most comfortable boots I have ever worn. So I can't recommend those boots for anything but dry games. Once you get them wet and muddy they well never look the same, the suede just gets ruined (no surprises there).

Based on the video I would say your accuracy is about average, its pretty similar to my tar 21 that has a load of upgrades in it (it was quite a bit worse than this without them).

A lot of intense firefights in that game! We did a lot of sneaky sneaky in behind enemy lines, at one point we had 4 of us hiding in ferns with the enemy walking past us at 3 metre distance with being spotted. Took quite a bit of careful movement and in the end it was the glint off a scope that got one of us spotted. That 50 cal was just so darn heavy and prone to jam. I was on it for a bit on Sunday but the gun and the ammo (and the people) were soaked through with rain and the mechanism did not like it. The hop wasn't lifting the wet BBs so I abandoned it in the end as my rifle was shooting a lot further and consistently. Still it was fun to play with, the hair trigger on it is really good.

I use the 10m I have indoors to sort out the basic left/right zero and get most of the vertical dialed in. Then on site as soon as chrono starts I'll get the gun chronoed and then get it zeroed as part of that. All the chrono areas on sites I attend have enough space to see the impact of hop and something to shoot at to determine zero. Considering the general inaccuracy of the BBs and airsoft weapons I don't use paper for anything but indoors so I could in theory be out by an inch or so at maximum range, but its not going to matter that much as the spread is much wider than that. You can't zero an airsoft gun at maximum range on anything but a big cardboard piece and say that its roughly zeroed. At 20m you could shoot a 10cm paper target and have some confidence with 10 shots its centred but its not going to be a tight grouping. So rough and ready on the morning is good enough for these weapons.

As part of my membership at a range I did enquire about using the .22 range for the purpose of zeroing. The range master asked me about the make up of the rounds and asked about whether they had a tendency to richocet (they definitely do!) and it was clear from the discussion it might impact on the other shooters, would require everyone to wear protection for their eyes and might even disturb them so it was simply not OK. I just can't see any range ever agreeing to the use of an airsoft rifle in there as its too disruptive.

I once spent an entire game day at billericay (at no charge) doing tech work to get my R hop patch working perfectly. I just sat in the safe zone and my sand paper and tools laid out on the bench and worked on it all day, constantly taking the gun apart and putting it back together and test shooting it at their chrono area. A lot of the bigger out door sites are going to let you do a similar thing if you just ask.

Hunterseeker makes some clips that can be used to hold problematic pieces in place to help get it closed up. It seems to be gearbox/parts dependent, some of them have a real tendency to jump out where others just stay put.

In the safe zone a Marshalls loads someones gun and shoots them in the ass for what sounds like dry firing. I mentioned this in my review of the place over a year ago, it is not a safety kind of site. The safe zone isn't safe, they don't chrono and I had my finger fractured from a BB hit, ie a massively over power (considering its meant to be 328 fps) gun. You go to Epsom at your own risk and you are best wearing your goggles continuously.

I guess a lot of people don't realise that BBs are actually polished, and they come with a slight waxy coating. One of the reasons this is done is to avoid the plastic of the BBs being laid down into the inner barrel and slowly destroying the surface. Snipers don't fire many rounds so they can get away with the residue problem and just clean their weapons barrel often enough that it likely never becomes an issue. However an AEG can fire a lot of rounds in a day and end up laying down a sufficient amount of melted plastic such that it doesn't come off. The waxy coating has two impacts, it gets left behind in the barrel and needs regular cleaning and it reduces the effect of the hop rubber on the BB as it slides past. But compared to having melted plastic in your barrel its a better option.

They are a pretty new company, its more than 6 months as I was hearing about them mostly last year but I am not sure when they actually released their guns. The only impression I got from Y T reviews (mostly garbage FYI) was that they have really good recoil impact. No idea if the guns are accurate or good in other ways.

I regularly carry my phone around in my chest rig just in a neoprene case. So far its not been damaged but I also do make sure the glass is facing me and not the incoming BBs and it goes in there with a wallet which likely bares the brunt of the impact most of the time anyway. A pouch combined with neoprene I suspect would be sufficient but I wouldn't bet on it.

I really haven't seen many HPAs here in the UK, but by all accounts they have become quite a bit problem in the USA. I think in the end so long as suitable power tests are being done (0.20g and actual weight BBs) such that BB power is within site specs and reasonable rates of fire (certainly less than 30 rps) are adhered to I can't see how there would be a problem. But most sites I know don't have rps rules and I don't think I have been to a single one that tests for joule creep.

The iranian embassy I think would be a fun one off game (not necessarily with the SAS winning!).

Its a hicap, they all rattle.

Lonex flash mags. They replaced the winder with a draw tab and they seem to hold so much wind from the first one that you don't seem to have to wind it again, it will more or less empty the mag. I have one, its by far the best hi cap I have.

I use mechanix gloves as well. Got two pairs, the Multicam ones for the winter and a set of fingerless I wear in the summer that make it a bit easier to handle the weapon (but I do get stung by nettles on the ends of the fingers a lot, and one broken finger from a BB hit).

I had a similar difficulty with an R hop patch. I spent a day on a site with some sandpaper/dremel/tools just further tweaking the patch until I got it shooting straight with 0.28g BBs. I never bothered to get the 0.25g BBs working, I can't see any intrusion in the barrel at all its flush but they still just overhop and I think its from just the patch itself on the top without it being pushed down. Even though 0.28g BBs are nice and straight I find 0.30g BBs are better accuracy and range so that is what I now use. It so vastly improves the amount of hop you can apply that it does indeed increase the weight your gun can effectively hop, but as a result it also could and in my case did mean 0.25g was impossible to use anymore.

The Top techs have brass barrels not stainless steel and the finish one mine was so so at best.

Accuracy is all about the air components, which from back to front is the Piston+head, Cylinder, Cylinder Head, Nozzle, Hop unit, bucking and barrel. So far you have assumed its in the bucking or barrel but it could very well just be wear and tear has produced an airleak in the gearbox itself and its putting out inconsistent air, it could also be the nozzle isn't quite in the right place and its damaging the bucking and perhaps sealing well into the bucking but not to the gearbox. So its time to crack open the gearbox and check the major parts including their airseal. Where is the thread appearing on the bucking? A picture would be good but my guess is the lip based on what you have said so far.

Too many inaccuracies, can't be bothered to correct it all. This is bad information and bad advice.